My experience of nursing school was a constant barrage of deadlines and tests. We averaged like 3 major tests a semester plus the final which was often a mix of new material and cumulative so most of my class was in constant study mode. I was the type to wait until the night before to refresh my memory but I had to start 2 weeks out to make sure I had enough time to memorize everything which basically was some minor studying leading up to a solid weekend of rote memorization and sitting at my computer copying my notes by hand and then retyping those notes multiple times. I got through with like all tests at 85%. The tests were also designed to match the NCLEX style of questions which meant they were multi-step and often trying to make you take the wrong answer.
The professors ranged from really cool and chill to extremely oppressive and demanding. There were no extensions, you needed like an 78%+ average to actually pass the class, if you failed NURS101 you had to reapply to the program and try to get accepted again unless there were significant external circumstances, if you failed anything past NURS101 you had a single extra try to pass but you couldn't fail again otherwise you were booted from the program. We had like 2-3 3 hour lectures a week depending on the course with lab time included in that. Then there was simulation that was a separate thing you needed to study for that consisted of a major portion of your grade. There was then also a 10 hour clinical rotation once a week where you'd spend a day working on a hospital unit which depending on your preceptor could be reasonable to obnoxious. My first preceptor was a nightmare and as a result our group of 8 shrank to 3 because her standards were obnoxious and led to multiple students just getting so overwhelmed they either failed out or gave up. After that 10 hour clinical we then had a full packet to fill out each week where we would have to write detailed notes on our patients, the packet took me like 4 hours to complete and my classmates could hit up to an additional 10 hours. That preceptor waived having us go into the hospital to look up our patients the day before because it was 30 minutes away from the campus to start with but we had to write detailed notes on the patient's diagnosis and answer in depth questions about their diagnosis and other conditions, even the really tertiary stuff. I think I averaged like 50-60 hours of work a week throughout nursing school with it gradually increasing as I got later into it, but the nature of my study methods meant that I'd have a week or two of like 30 hours and two weeks of like 80 hours.
Gotta say nursing school really does prep you to get crushed at work along with the traditional nurses eating their young.
My experience of nursing school was a constant barrage of deadlines and tests. We averaged like 3 major tests a semester plus the final which was often a mix of new material and cumulative so most of my class was in constant study mode. I was the type to wait until the night before to refresh my memory but I had to start 2 weeks out to make sure I had enough time to memorize everything which basically was some minor studying leading up to a solid weekend of rote memorization and sitting at my computer copying my notes by hand and then retyping those notes multiple times. I got through with like all tests at 85%. The tests were also designed to match the NCLEX style of questions which meant they were multi-step and often trying to make you take the wrong answer.
The professors ranged from really cool and chill to extremely oppressive and demanding. There were no extensions, you needed like an 78%+ average to actually pass the class, if you failed NURS101 you had to reapply to the program and try to get accepted again unless there were significant external circumstances, if you failed anything past NURS101 you had a single extra try to pass but you couldn't fail again otherwise you were booted from the program. We had like 2-3 3 hour lectures a week depending on the course with lab time included in that. Then there was simulation that was a separate thing you needed to study for that consisted of a major portion of your grade. There was then also a 10 hour clinical rotation once a week where you'd spend a day working on a hospital unit which depending on your preceptor could be reasonable to obnoxious. My first preceptor was a nightmare and as a result our group of 8 shrank to 3 because her standards were obnoxious and led to multiple students just getting so overwhelmed they either failed out or gave up. After that 10 hour clinical we then had a full packet to fill out each week where we would have to write detailed notes on our patients, the packet took me like 4 hours to complete and my classmates could hit up to an additional 10 hours. That preceptor waived having us go into the hospital to look up our patients the day before because it was 30 minutes away from the campus to start with but we had to write detailed notes on the patient's diagnosis and answer in depth questions about their diagnosis and other conditions, even the really tertiary stuff. I think I averaged like 50-60 hours of work a week throughout nursing school with it gradually increasing as I got later into it, but the nature of my study methods meant that I'd have a week or two of like 30 hours and two weeks of like 80 hours.
Gotta say nursing school really does prep you to get crushed at work along with the traditional nurses eating their young.
What a great environment. Wonder why the average nursing career is less than two years.
:doomer:
I know several people who are now or were once nurses. And I'm starting to understand why they were all going batshit insane well before Covid.