Is it really that hard to become a nurse?
Has anyone here gone to nursing school in the US? How bad is it? I'm done some work as a medical assistant. I'm thinking about nursing school.
41-45, F
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DeluxedEdition · 26-30, F
@mysteryespresso depending on the state you are living in its very competitive. It requires a ridiculous amount of studying you simply do not just pass by chance. You pass by the work you put in. It’s long and arduous. It’s disgusting nursing is not what anyone thinks it is. There is shit and piss and throw up. You aren’t waking around cute little beds with well behaved patients. You get beat up, verbally, mentally abused. You watch people at the lowest points in your life. You will clean up dead patients. You will watch people you love and know their families die while another body gets admitted before the bed is even cold.
You will perform cpr at some point in time. It’s scary. There are times when you will see blood and gore and things that actually make you vomit. I have seen people with wounds in their back so large I could put my entire arm in it. You have to be strategic. You have to have time management.
You have to be tough and familiarize yourself with the phrase “nurses eat their young”
You have to give up your social life. They ask that you don’t work while going to nursing school. It’s very expensive and stressful. It’s not for the weak by any means
You will perform cpr at some point in time. It’s scary. There are times when you will see blood and gore and things that actually make you vomit. I have seen people with wounds in their back so large I could put my entire arm in it. You have to be strategic. You have to have time management.
You have to be tough and familiarize yourself with the phrase “nurses eat their young”
You have to give up your social life. They ask that you don’t work while going to nursing school. It’s very expensive and stressful. It’s not for the weak by any means