Joey's Nursing Experience

EXAM MANIA! Being a nursing student is far from easy. Let me tell ya,  I have never experienced the workload that I have experienced since starting nursing school last August. When people think of college they think of spending four years of their lives, going out and partying, enjoying the change of life from high school, learning to live on their own, and ofcourse going to class and learning..While in nursing school it is totally different. Nursing students have to spend their free time preparing for exams (so really there is no free time). Exams are everything in nursing school. There are not little assignments that can bring your grade up like other majors have. As a nursing student we have to show up every exam. The exams are worth so much of the grade that you cannot risk not knowing the information. Now some of us will laugh at this and say even if we know all the information the exam may still be hard. I have experienced this too.There have been times when I believe I...

Clinical for Beginners. As nursing students we experience obstacles than most college students don’t face. We don’t have off on the weekends, due to this thing called clinical. Clinical is extremely important for nursing students. This is the closest thing to reality while being a nurse. So those weekends that we are not going out to a party, down to the shore, or just chilling, we will be bettering our education and providing ourselves with crucial experiences in the clinical setting. Clinical is not the easiest thing in the world. It’s very long hours on days of the week that we are used to having off. However the two clinical days that we have weekly are extremely beneficial for all of us. We learn how to work together and accomplish skills that we have never used before. We go into clinical every week and face situations we have never seen. However at the end of the day we have learned something that we will indeed use as a nurse one day. I’m writing his post because we are al...

    Nursing school throws a lot of obstacles at us as students that are challenging, and a bit frustration at times. My classmates and I are all in the same boat with one another, The struggles do "get real" at times. With Exams, exams, and did I forget, more exams, our lives become hectic. It is truly a challenging part of our lives, and there are plenty of up's and down's that we encounter. This quote related to my life the past few months while in nursing school. We are all humans trying to reach our dreams and goals, and in order to be realistic with ourselves we must realize that there are going to be times when we are down. Its totally okay to be down at times, just keep pushing through and when the time is ready you will rise up. I hope this makes everyone feel better, and to understand that we are not going to be"up" all the time and that its totally fine to come from the bottom and rise.