Which was more stressful: nursing school or actually working as a RN?

theradiantforce · May 28, 2015

School. They made pety things seem like the end of the world. Instead of utilizing teaching moments, they used them to degrade and berate students. It's sad really, how much it seems nursing schools TRY to fail students. A lot of good people failed over small issues.

Work is not easy but, the things that are difficult at least make sense. Peoples lives are in our hands so, the rules are understandable and just, IMHO.

annynurse2013 · May 28, 2015

I hope it gets better:sarcastic:.

fatrabbit · May 28, 2015

"Another student wanting nurses to write her paper?"

Nope, I'm not even in nursing school yet (and technically, I've been on summer break for a week now). It's just that I keep hearing that working as a nurse and going through nursing school are both so stressful (like debilitatingly so)... I guess I'm just curious =]

Everline · May 28, 2015

The ideas that stress is 1) bad, and 2) to be avoided at all costs sort of underlie this question, assuming for the nonce that it isn't a student looking to write a paper (which I think it is).

I'd seriously look at reframing it. Every age and stage has its own stressors. You can probably remember being baffled by what adults do as a child, with no control over your own life. Then the awful feelings that flooded over you in your teenage hormonal tsunami-- gym class, hair growth, menses or nocturnal emissions, tits or unwanted erections, zits, dating, your mother hovering over you saying, "If you need anything, dear, I'm always here..." when you didn't even know what it as you needed but it wasn't her, for sure. Then leaving home, getting your first apartment, making your first road trip by yourself. Then later, when you have that first really big fight with your spouse and realize this marriage thing could be more work than it seemed at the beginning. Then what? OMG, pregnancy, the unexpected messiness of childbirth and nursing and babies in general, then being in complete charge of this totally helpless little life every single day ... and night. And then ... and then ...

You get the idea. School has stressful elements, work has stressful elements, family life has stressful elements, being alone has stressful elements. This is probably the origin of the heavenly glorious afterlife that pops up in about every culture. :) The key is not to, well, stress about it, but to embrace it as the opportunity for growth and strengthening that it is. Ships are not made to stay in port.

You have no idea how inspirational this post is to me at this time in my life. Thank you.

Guest219794 · May 29, 2015

School.

I don't find nursing stressful.

I swipe my card, they start paying me.

I do my best while there.

I swipe out, and m done with work.

My wife is a teacher- that seems stressful.