Whats been the hardest/easiest nursing course for you?

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well for me, pharm was easy to understand and im good at math while i struggled with med-surg 1.

Im really asking this question b/c in our school alot of ppl were borderline passing critical care, like 30-40 ppl failing each test out of 110 student, so i was wondering if that was the hardest class, im getting scared for next semester!:uhoh3: should i start studying over the summer? :typing

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Cardiac was my hardest. OB was my best. But I walked into my OB class knowing most of the material anyway, and I want to be an OB nurse, so that wasn't a shock.

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Specializes in ED, ICU, MS/MT, PCU, CM, House Sup, Frontline mgr.

Easiest = First semester Fundamentals

Hardest (so far) = Third Semester Medical Surgical II, both clinical and lecture!

It is almost over... it is almost over..... I just have to pass the final... it is almost over! :yeah:

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Pharmacology, medical math, and med surg 1 were my easiest.

Fundamentals and OB were my hardest.

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Specializes in Telemetry.

I have not met upon a hard class as yet let me hope this will be so throughout the program.

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I haven't started NS yet but heard that 4 of the 40 students failed out the last semester during the OB class. A few others were dropped from the accelerated to the generic program because they didn't pass the math test. So naturally, I'm a bit intimidated but I think I'll be ok.

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Specializes in ER.

EASIEST: COMMUNITY, PSYCH, Critical Care (had it my last seemster, so everything was clicking and starting to actually make sense, other wise this class would be hard if i didnt take it last and not have the knowledge that I did going into it)

HARDEST: OB and PEDS...for some reason those damn kids haunt me!

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Specializes in Acute Care Psych, DNP Student.

So far, pharmacology has been my easiest. It's obscenely easy. I never had to study for it. I just read my power-points during a class break before quizzes and I'm done with an 'A' grade.

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Hardest; Pharmacology, I am a CNA so I had zero experience with drugs going in.But I passed with a "C"!:nurse:

Easiest: OB, I have 3 kids, I had fertility issues before starting a family, my son was born w/TGV, so I have NICU experience, plus I read a lot of medical type books while I was pregnant and during my sons hospital stay (not to mention the nurses teaching me stuff) and spent time on the internet too. I came into the class with a lot of life experience and hardly had to open the book all semester. I was only 2 pts away from an "A" when I finished!:D

Med/Surg 1 was my second hardest and I am not looking forward to how hard Med/Surg 2 will be!:uhoh21:

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Specializes in Psych ICU, addictions.

So far:

Hardest: Fundamentals, because I came into this with zero medical experience...though as the program goes on, I'm finding that having no prior medical experience isn't as much of a handicap as you might think it would be: I have no "bad" (read: real-world, not textbook) habits to unlearn when it comes to test time.

Easiest: Maternal-Fetal. I'm not sure why, I just took to it well.

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This is funny because for me none of the above was the hardest.

hardest - Pathophysiology

Easiest - Peds, OB, Fundamentals, Pharm, health assessment

the one i hated the most - Psych

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Med-Surg Clinical 1. I had never been in the medical field before and my instructor was a retired 35-year Navy Nurse, no-nonsense type. One student quit the program after that rotation.

Many students (12 or so) in my program failed Leadership and Management, coincidentally taught by the same instructor. She was a very hard grader.

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