Which semester did you think was the hardest?

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I hear different opinions on this question. Some people say that nursing school gets easier as you go along, and others say it becomes more difficult each semester. I'm in an associate degree program and I've been able to manage very well during the first semester. I know everyone has varying experiences and stress levels, but what is the consensus out there?

Specializes in Emergency/Cath Lab.

OB/Peds because i have/had little to zero experience with pregnant women and kids.

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Definitely first semester of my Entry level BSN program. I had 19 credits...patho, pharm, assessment, fundamentals, and an online aging class. I was in school almost 50 hours a week, not including homework.

I wouldn't say that it has gotten easier for me necessarily, but there has been less to deal with since then. This is my last semester and all I have is a senior practicum (300 clinical hours working my preceptor's schedule) and I have to write a journal every 36 hours, and statistics. The third and fourth semesters were pretty brutal with med-surg I and II, but they were still easier than the first one was!

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Specializes in CVICU/ER.

I'm graduating in May and to be honest, they all sucked. Term I because you are learning the nursing process and doing all the skills, Term II because of OB and psyche which I hated both, Term III because of home care and community on top of the advanced Med surg...the pure volume sucked.......Term IV because I just wanna get done and the stupid clinical hours are killing me.

That sums it up for me.

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Specializes in SNU/SNF/MedSurg, SPCU Ortho/Neuro/Spine.

Mental Health, was by far the worse class in my whole life! and that is thinking back to calculus, trig, sociology, organic chem...

I just hate mental health... the more I try to understand the worse I do!!! I can understand the clinical picture and what not, but when it comes to testing, I can bring it down to 2 possible, but cant make the right decision over 30% of the time....

I really... really don't like it! Irather be cleaning stoma bags all day if I could opt. out of MH

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