Challenges in Nursing School

Nursing school is difficult. It’s hard to be admitted and it’s even harder to stay in the program and pass it. It’s not as easy as any other major within a college. I used to be in nursing school and I will tell you that it’s one of the hardest things that a student can try to achieve. It’s not just the rigorous academic but also the stress from professors, classmates, clinical and personal life. You have to sacrifice your personal life once you’re in a nursing program. You’re risking your success if you have a life. It’s nearly impossible to work and pass nursing school. This is why you have to have a large bank account with funding in order to support all of your finance needs during your schooling. You can’t really work and support yourself while you’re in nursing school. You can try but it won’t be that easy. I worked while I was in the nursing program but that made me suffered a lot academically. I drove about an hour for schooling and I think that made me suffer academically too.

Nursing is a very hard occupation. It’s mentally draining. It’s challenging and demanding. The patients and doctors will be demanding a lot of things from you and you might not be able to do it. People think that nursing school is right for them but they ended up quitting half way through. It’s stressful, physically demanding and depressing sometimes too. It’s depressing to see sick and dead people all day long. You will be working with sick people and dead people. Your patients might be unconscious and they may have a lot of tubes sticking to them. The job is not glamorous. If you like fun and glamour then this is not the job for you. You will be wearing a baggy pair of scrubs and it’s not cute. You will be wearing scrubs for the rest of your career. It can be comfortable but not glamorous at all. You will have to wear them while doing clinical in college too.

When it comes to nursing school, you have to devote all of your time to studying and doing clinical. It’s not like any other programs where you can drop your class and then retake it later. You’re not allowed to do this in a nursing program. You have to go along with all of your classmates from class to class. If you failed, you’re ejected out of the program and you will have to reapply which can take a year or more to get back in the program. You might not be accepted back into the program. You can apply at other programs too of course. Nursing school is painful in that way. You can’t just take any class at your own time. You have to follow the schedule that is administered to you from the school. It can be problematic if you have to follow their exact hours and days. You can’t change it. This is very difficult if you have young children or a family that needs you. Everything about the nursing program is challenging. It’s not easy. When you’re trying to pass your last clinical, you will be working under a nurse and they can be a headache. It’s stressful. You might not graduate if you have a mean nurse that is working with you. They can fail you and this is extremely stressful. You will be lucky if the nurse is kind to you but most of the time they’re not that kind. I’ve heard many horrors stories. I think that the program is ridiculous sometimes too. It’s overly demanding when America has a nurse shortage program.