Why is it all so difficult?

[K3ndraR]

I've been so discouraged recently about Nursing School. I've wanted to be a nurse since I was in middle school and my desire to be a nurse has only increased while being in a CNA course. But every time I think about nursing school I just want to give up. I'm starting at a community college in the Fall and I can't see how I'll ever be able to make it. For one, I really just don't like science. As much as I try, I can never get into it. And, for the program at my CC, it would take about 2 years to just get through the prerequisites and, if I actually get into it, another 2 years for the program. Four years for what is suppose to be a two-year degree? And then I plan on getting a BSN but 6 years just seems like a ridiculous amount of time. And transferring into a nursing program is nearly impossible with every school having different requirements and priority given to students who did the prerequisites at the actual school. It all just seems like too much and I really would rather drop out of school and go live in the forest at this point. Any advice or help would be greatly appreciated.

[umbdude, MSN, APRN]

K3ndraR,

I personally don't believe that you must be passionate about science to be a nurse, but one should have at least a keen interest and curiosity in biology and the human body.

You said no matter how you try you just aren't into it. Did you mean taking courses or just readin books? Have you tried watching NOVA on PBS? Sometimes things we study in the classroom are so abstract that a show like NOVA could stir your interest many times beyond the class room. How can anyone not be curious about the 4th dimension, the quantum world, and the advances in genetics that continually prove Darwin's theory?

If that still doesn't work and you still have no interest in science, then think about the parts of what nurses do that enthralled you. Maybe it's not the technical/science part, but the feeling/compassion/helping/educating part. If that's the case, there are many career choices out there that would fit (non-profit, social work, public health, education etc.)