Wrong profession or wrong nursing school?

[guest1042410]

I'm second guessing my choice to be a nurse, but I'm wondering if I just chose the wrong program. Due to an unfortunate series of events, we had to move out of state right before I was supposed to start my ADN program. The area I moved to had an LPN program that was starting mid-summer. I thought it was a good way to keep moving forward, but now I'm kinda stuck in this program full of people who are not college material. All they do is complain that everything is too much work and we spend way too much time because of morons trying to negotiate their way out of homework, etc. One of our instructors is an older lady who I suspect has a hearing problem and a very quiet voice, and she can't control the classroom. It's like being in high school again. Last class period, there was a group in the back of the room having their own conversation and the instructor couldn't get their attention to ask them to stop. It's like the movie "Fast Times at Ridgemont High".

Every Friday morning I start to rethink whether Nursing school was the right choice. I wonder if another program would be any different. I wonder if another program is an option. I don't feel like this after clinicals. Those usually rejuvenate me.

I really don't know what to do. There may not really be anything to do. Maybe, I just needed to vent.

[meanmaryjean, DNP, RN]

You're already in (a plus) and here is what I suggest:

Sit in the front.

Pay no attention to the losers in the back who are not there to learn.

Learn all you can.

Shine in clinicals.

GRADUATE.

In the meantime, be looking at your next move educationally. (LPN-to-RN)

[imhorsemackerel, LPN]

When I went to LPN school, a lot of my classmates would complain as well. On one hand I would understand as many of them had families or worked fulltime (whereas I worked 2 per diem jobs). But we had one packet that we had a med packet that we needed to fill completely before graduation. It had over 50 pages and hundreds of medications. We were given enough time to do the packet. There were plenty of times where we had down time to completed at least half a page. Yet there were still many people who would constantly complain and turned it in late.

I agree that you should sit up front. If they started having their own side conversations in the back, I would ask them if they could quiet down. You're all adults. They should be respect their classmates and their teacher. It's a shame they just do their own thing. If all else fails, do what you have to do in order to succeed. Karma will come get them. Patients don't come with multiple choice questions.

[wheresthecharge]

From what it sounds like its just the learning environment you are in. You are not alone in experiencing this. I agree with what has been said, and to add I say focus more on you.

You will see as you are just starting, nursing programs... like other programs... will have people gradually drop or fall behind as you move forward through the courses.

all the best!