What was the toughest part of Nursing school for you?

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For all of you that have graduated, tell me what was the worst or most difficult part of your Nursing school experience?

Specializes in Ortho/Neuro.
By far, the absolute worst part of nursing school for me was writing all those CARE PLANS!!! I would take a test any day over doing care plans.:uhoh3:

I second that!!!!

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Specializes in ER.

It wasn't the tasks. For nursing school you have to grow emotionally, because unless you are already an RN you have to deal with being responsible for someone's life, with talking to grieving or angry families, with people being sick in ways you never imagined. That was the hardest for me.

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The early early clinical hours, and all of the work you had to do and not receive any grade for it. So frustrating!

Angela R.N.

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Specializes in None...YET!.
It wasn't the tasks. For nursing school you have to grow emotionally, because unless you are already an RN you have to deal with being responsible for someone's life, with talking to grieving or angry families, with people being sick in ways you never imagined. That was the hardest for me.

Yeah, thoes situations definitely take some major adjustments.

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Specializes in CTICU, SANE/SART.

This thread is helping me out a lot and also prepare me for the 'worst'. Thanks LADYFLOWER for starting this thread.

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Specializes in NICU.

the toughest part of nursing school was having a care plan due and a big test the same week. also, being up before the sun rises to be in clinical at 6:30 am, being paired up with a nurse who didn't want a student, performing a skill for the first time (giving meds, starting an iv, inserting a foley, etc).

some rewarding things about nursing school: successfully performing a skill for the first time, warm gratitude from a patient, knowing that you passed one more class, detecting a mistake no one else caught, knowing that you're making a difference.

best of luck to you. remember this website is here to help you get through the good and the bad nursing school times.

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Specializes in None...YET!.
This thread is helping me out a lot and also prepare me for the 'worst'. Thanks LADYFLOWER for starting this thread.

Aww, You are welcome! Ya know us newbies need all the help/advice we can get! btw, it's helping to prepare me for "the worst" too!;)

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Specializes in Public Health.

I've still got 1 year left, but I absolutely dread preparing for clinicals. I get depressed just thinking about it. The time spent at the hospital the day before, drug cards, labs, care plans, finding journal articles etc... and then the time spent after clinicals finishing care plans, patient assessments and whatever else they can think of. There's been many of days where I'll be up till 2:00 am getting ready for clinicals thinking....is it worth it? You bet it is. Nursing school is tough, but I wouldn't trade it for the anything. I love it. It challenges me. I can't wait to be an RN.

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Specializes in Medical/Oncology, Family Practice.

I too have another year left. But for me the worst part has been clinical prep. For Med-Surg, having to look up an average of 20 meds a night and decipher 20-30 abnormal labs each night when you have to work an 8 hr evening shift and still be at clinical by 6:45 the next morning has been awful. What makes it worse is the fact that all of your classmates in clinical have pts with only 5-10 meds and 5-10 abnormal labs (on average) and the fact that you know if you complain your clin. instructor will just make it harder on you!!!

The best part of nursing school is when you can actually see that you helped someone. For one of my final OB clinicals, we had to do a teaching day for the new parents. It was so gratifying to see how much you helped the families and to hear them tell you so.

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When I was in nursing school we visited a place with tons of mentally retarded /depressed people.. we watched shock treatments given, they actually put padded tongue blade and gave shock to temple areas.... I was so disturbed about it that I have always been determined not to get psychotic...!!!!!

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Dealing with inconsistencies from professors. I can't even count the times they were wrong according to Perry and Potter and other text references; and believe me it was hell...

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Specializes in LTC.

i made very good grades in class and clinicals were 2nd nature to me, then....OBGYN durning clinicals. every baby in at least 5 counties was born durning my rotation. each baby that was born was very emotional to me. i was hugging the grandmothers and bawling with them. no matter what i tried the tears just flowed. the staff nurses tried everything but i would just bawl. my rotation was cut short in OB due to the best interest of the patients.

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