What was/is the hardest part of your undergraduate nursing education

Were there reems of information to remember, did it require lots of study time, etc?
dealing with classmates

The actual nursing classes were not very difficult to me. However, immature classmates, passive-aggressive instructors, and nurses at the clinical sites who did not want to be bothered with students all were far more difficult contenders than the coursework ever would have been.

The hardest part for me wasn't the school work or classmates. I started studying for my BSN straight out of high school and I was quite young. I found the hardest part was being on placement and trying to get on with the RN's who I would be assigned to. Most of them were nice and friendly but I was very shy and I found myself very nervous and scared when I was working with an RN that wasn't friendly towards me. Apart from that I loved clinicals, school and my I got on great with my classmates and made plenty of great friends

For my particular program, the schoolwork was difficult. I've always been an A/B student, but it's difficult to understand new material,especially when you have other courses and clinicals.I think time management is everything in undergrad because its not about what you know,but how u APPLY it. My most difficult class was PEDS, but I made it throughGood luck!

Quote from KaksRNdealing with classmates

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The most difficult single task that I think I ever had to do in nursing school was the complete head to toe physical assessment in my first semester. We had to do it in front of our lab instructors on a classmate for a grade and everything was worth points. I basically typed up a 3 page script for it to get it right. There were critical steps that, if missed, would automatically fail you. It was nerve-wracking and comprehensive, even down to checking cranial nerves (no pun intended). I almost forgot to assess the skin, which would have failed me!After that though, every other skill was a bit less comprehensive and straightforward, even though I think sterile gloving for a nursing lab instructor is scary lol (then you get out in clinical and your "sterile field" is on a dirty sheet on a bed 10 inches beneath you). Otherwise what everyone else said is true - the politics of nursing school is the most difficult to navigate. I did not make a ton of great friends and did not relate to most of the people in my class, although I did do enough to get by on group assignments and projects and such. I could talk to people in my clinical groups. Many people did get close through nursing - just depends on your situation.I'm going into my last semester and will graduate in December, so we'll see what comes of this one.

Uh, taking the IQ test!

Anatomy class and peds lecture were the second worst for me. My research class was the absolute worst. I figure if I could pass that, I can do anything!

Nursing research class....very very boring. Condescending instructor.

Community nursing project. Shudder.

psychology. took it twice, ditched the final the second time when i opened the booklet and saw it was the same one i flunked the first time, and walked directly to the registrar's office and withdrew so i didn't have to eat another "fail" on my transcript. took it from a different instructor in a different college in summer session and that's when i learned that there are two kinds of intro psych courses-- neuro-based, research-oriented, look-forward-to-a-grad-school-program-in-that psych, and behavioral psych. got an a in the behavioral one, loved it, and found it much more applicable to actual nursing.