What is nursing school like?

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What is nursing school like? How do you get through a program that makes you take 3 exams in one day a week and math tests 100%? How do you study for that? How do you read 7 chapters in a week? and then 2 quizzes the following Monday? Does the board of nurses really hate their students that badly?

Why is the program accelerated? Quantity over quality is more important? It seems like the instructors don't teach you anything. Is it pretty much a "knife to your throat while you cut a wire to disarm a bomb" type of education? It seems like nursing school is for those who were born with luck. Or am I completely wrong? Is it doable? can you pass tests with 100% with no problem like you could in a biology class? I hear nothing but students that look like they're living in fear. What is this? The Soviet Union? Where you and your family can't smile in family pictures, businesses have to share their success with other businesses and people can only wear dark colored clothes? Are you not supposed to have confidence while in nursing school? What about the math test that requires you to pass with a 100%? What kind of god awful idea is that? Is that the schools way of saying "we taught you the easiest way possible and if you can't get a 100%, you're ridiculous and not advancing"? Or "Because **** you is why"? Does the school pretty much teach you the job or is there more for you to learn to where you can't actually know the job?

I can see saving lives being the staple of being a nurse so then that means there's no OJT when you work at a hospital? It seems like a job that is hard to maintain beside maintaining the mental and physical part of it?

It seems to me in my experience from nurses and nursing students that the school doesn't teach you **** except slam heavy deadlines and tough tests in your face.

The nursing students I know never speak to me and never come off as positive...

Is being in nursing school make you a snob? Where you're better than all the others except the nursing students you're supposed to graduate with?

It seems like nursing school is for those who were born with luck.

No, it's for those who are intelligent, conscientious, determined, hardworking, and dedicated. Luck doesn't have much to do with it.

Or am I completely wrong? Is it doable? can you pass tests with 100% with no problem like you could in a biology class?

Yes.

What about the math test that requires you to pass with a 100%? What kind of god awful idea is that? Is that the schools way of saying "we taught you the easiest way possible and if you can't get a 100%, you're ridiculous and not advancing"? Or "Because **** you is why"?

Okay, why don't you tell us what percentage of the time it would be acceptable to get the math wrong when you are preparing a medication for a patient which has the potential to be fatal if given in the wrong dose.

The nursing students I know never speak to me and never come off as positive...

Is being in nursing school make you a snob? Where you're better than all the others except the nursing students you're supposed to graduate with?

Maybe they just prefer to keep their distance from people who engage in histrionic behavior.

Specializes in Prior military RN/current ICU RN..

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OP, I do agree with all other commenters on here. I am far away from applying to a nursing school (I have just started my pre-reqs), but I am as excited about nursing as I was about teaching years ago. Yes, I will be a second/third degree student, and just like I was 15 years ago, I am very excited to begin a new path in my carrier. Just like others said, there will be excellent instructors and there will be the worst of the kind. For example, one of the pre-reqs I am taking is an intro to genetics. In 3 lectures I truly loathe the professor. It is not the content that is hard, it is the ineffective teaching that creates the environment for all students to feel unsuccessful. How do I know that? 35 students out of 40 failed their first exam. And what did I do? I switched sections! Now, I had my second exam and I aced it. Why? The professor I have now is amazing! The point I am making is, if you want something so bad, nothing will stop you: nor bad professors, bad students, bad whatever.

Finally, have a positive attitude! I know sometimes it is hard to be positive when all you see around you makes you feel worthless, makes you feel sad, angry - whatever. But try to see a positive in everything! Turn every negative into positive!

Speaking as a teacher, there is such doctrine called self-fulfilling prophecy. If you believe you will fail, you will. If you believe your instructors will be bad and have no passion, that is exactly how it will turn out! So, drink some ginseng tea, and relax!

Specializes in GENERAL.

Nursing school is like the Sun, Moon and Stars all rolled together into one big hoopteedoo. I gotta tell ya!!!

Specializes in Critical Care.
Nursing school is like the Sun, Moon and Stars all rolled together into one big hoopteedoo. I gotta tell ya!!!

I laughed really hard at this.

Specializes in critical care, ER,ICU, CVSURG, CCU.
This is some kind of fake message. It makes zero sense.

As as does any of OP post

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