What do you hate the most about nursing school?

[Jewl]

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:

[Bob_N_VA]

I can't say I hate anything about it, but I'm just starting out. I'm an older career switcher so I take this whole nursing school gig as something new and exciting and I tend to downplay the parts that can be tiresome. Stay positive about the experience as a whole, its a good life strategy.

[CuriousMe]

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.

Why on earth would someone else not taking a break bother you?

[Blove86]

I will just be glad when it is over. Nursing school has growed (LOL) me up ALOT. Taught me alot about myself and others believe it or not

[sneakymom2011]

Hate is such a strong word. I'd rather say the stuff that drives me batty

We don't do care plans- we do concept maps. And they were driving me batty b/c my handwriting just stinks (d/t the fact that I take notes by hand in school so I have to scribble to keep up) and I can't tell you how many of these things I've gotten back with "can you make it neater". Ugh. Then my husband showed me how to do them using powerpoint, and they aren't quite as bad anymore:D Esp when we have to put 2 nursing diagnoses on there and connect stuff. I can just imagine what it'll look like next semester with 3 DX on there

Lack of communication at times (see my post about fairness).

And my current Peds teacher who just drove me batty in lecture on Monday- notes were all over the place, some powerpoint slides weren't even in our notes (so I was scribbling twice as fast)

Cheryl

[clewis08(student)]

Care plans! They have gotten much easier, and I can understand why we do them, but it stinks having to do a 45 page care plan and memorize patient meds for recall in one evening. I have two quarters (including the quarter I'm in now) and then my preceptership to complete before I graduate, and they are just now starting to let up on us on those darn care plans.

[peytonsmom]

The time commitment! I knew what I was getting into beforehand but it doesn't make me hate missing out on time w/ my son and important activities. Our last clinical of the semester is the same day as his first horse show of the year so i'm going to have to miss it. Worth it in the end but the working a FT job and dealing w/ nursing school on top of it just leaves very little time for the important things.

[RNMeg]

Group work. This semester we had a huge project to do, 3 weeks to do it, and 10 people working on it together. It was like herding cats.

[bnon083]

The thing that annoys me the most is a few specific students in my class. Their voices are like nails on a chalkboard. And their long, slow drawn out questions that could simply be asked in about 1/10 of the time it takes them. And their personal stories about their cousin's girlfriends uncle that has the same condition that we are learning about! Ugh! Sorry for my rant! Other than that, it's not to bad!

[peytonsmom]

And their personal stories about their cousin's girlfriends uncle that has the same condition that we are learning about!

YES! We have a few of those in our class and I would die of embarrassment if I were their relatives!!

[CBsMommy]

I don't really "hate" anything either. The stuff that drives me crazy are the care maps (if I didn't have to do these, I would have way more time getting to my patient's needs), my current clinical instructor and the time commitment it takes. I miss my spending time with my son!!!!

Even with those types of things I am more grateful to be in the program than anything! Most people in this life can never even dream of becoming a college grad and I have the opportunity to be what I want to be in this life...a nurse. I know that I am very blessed and try to live my life as thankful as possible. I have it a lot better than most!

[everlasting]

I hate doing care plans and IPR's! I also hate how disorganized everything is. There is a girl in my class who was told she was in PEDS this rotation, bought her books, and went to clinic on the first day, then was told that she'd been switched to OB that morning. Ugh. It's happened to more than one person too.

[CeilingCat, ASN, RN]

I'm having a problem with the subjectivity of it. I am graded on what the instructor's personal opinion on some things are. They don't teach me why they'd come to such a conclusion. Or instructor A lectures on a topic and Instructor B writes the questions, and it's hard to guess what Teacher B was thinking. So at test time, I'm just guessing. :confused: