What do you hate the most about nursing school?

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Hi guys. I am not trying to be negative, but am curious as to what you all find the most frustrating or annoying about nursing school. Is it the teachers, classmates, all the test, ect....

Im in the 2nd quarter ADN program and it is getting only getting harder.

Jess:stdnrsrck:

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Hey Jess,

Unfortunately, I cannot give you any real-life experiences! I'm currently waiting to hear if I have been accepted to my nursing program...I guess I'm pretty much hatin' that aspect!! I don't think you are coming off as being negative. What are you finding that is causing you the most difficulty as you progress through the nursing curriculum?

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Specializes in CICU.

Hate is a very strong word. It is a long, tough journey, and can be frustrating, but I don't "hate" anything about it... It has been far more rewarding than not for me.

I don't hate anything, though, except maybe evil.

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Specializes in I dream of ICU...one day. ;-).

Oh, I hate a lot! LOL. But I'm getting towards the end and I am just sooooo over it. I'm tired of the papers, the ATI stress (we have to pass ours, I've heard not every school that utilizes ATI has to pass) and the information overload! I miss my friends, my social life and sleep.

It should be noted however, that I am in nursing school full time and I work full time. I think that may play into my resent onset of crankiness.

Seriously though, I have been lucky. You hear horror stories about nursing instructors and mine have all been INCREDIBLE! I've been very lucky. There are two things that I detest about nursing school though. #1. The amount of community nursing my school requires us to do. We have community/homecare every semester. I think that's crazy. And #2. Nursing diagnoses. We will NEVER use them. Ever. I've worked along side RNs for 7 years now in my job and we all laugh about them. Nursing Diagnoses do not exist outside of school. You can NIC/NOC and NANDA it all you want. You are never going to chart them, you are never going to use them.

Those are the only two things that drive me batty about nursing school. :)

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Care Plans drive me insane.....:bugeyes: but i know it will be very helpful later..

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I take more of a natural approach to life, so some of the things that are being taught (or not taught) is a bit annoying. But I'm now halfway through my 2nd semester and I'm learning to bite my tongue even harder and deal with it....nothing I can do except educate when the opportunity comes. So I think that's about it. I've had great teachers and mostly great peers. :)

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Care plans...definitely the care plans! Spending 8 hours on paperwork that will never be put to any good purpose makes me a little bonkers.

I've been fortunate that I've had some okay clinical instructors and some really good ones.

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Can't stand the nursing diagnosis part of constructing my care plan. Gathering information about my patient is interesting, I like that part. But the nursing dx part, just terrible. The interventions listed for nursing dx are mostly common sense. One dx I definitely will not be using is "Disturbed energy field".

I also don't like that many of the interventions I list in my care plan do not get carried out the way I would like to. There's only so much time that I have. And that's just for one patient. I don't know how RNs have time for 5 or more patients. I feel like I've done nothing much at all.

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Specializes in Emergency Dept. Trauma. Pediatrics.

There is nothing I hate, I am for the most part very happy with my program and instructors and enjoy school. I do get frustrated with some things though, like the journaling. If it was our free thoughts then I would be find, but to reflect on our reflective thinking, or to be told what we need to journal on I get annoyed. I also don't like the stricter grading scale, although I understand the reasoning.

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8 hr lecture in very uncomfortable chairs!

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The annoying nursing students who live, breathe, and sleep nursing school. I go out with my other friends on the weekends and have a life separate from school and work, and alot of them cant seem to understand that concept. Its a job at the end of the day.

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The none stop stress!

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