What was more stressful for you?

Was it the stress of trying to get into nursing school, or actually being in nursing school? I have 2 quarters before entering nursing school and im curious as to how much my stress levels will be changing.
Getting into nursing school was not stressful to me. But...being "in nursing school was." Good luck to you.

School hands down. Don't expend your energy now, you'll need lots of it later, then get through like the rest of us, one day at a time!

Haha stress levels. Start getting used to them now. It starts out with being stressed about getting in nursing school. Then you get stressed about passing your exams and classes. You go to clinicals and stress about practicing your skills on real patients. Next is graduating and passing HESI. Then you can't work until you pass NCLEX and get your nursing license, but soon realize you may not get to work where you want and you may be out of luck finding any nursing job at all! If you are lucky enough to get hired, you begin to stress about how your job is nothing like what you were taught in school! You stress about your lack of experience and wonder if you will ever get the time-management under control! You are stressed because you have too many needy patients/families and can't find your supplies, and things go wrong, and why you went into nursing in the first place. Don't get me wrong, I love nursing, but you are going to have a lot more stressful things to compare in the future.

Quote from rockabyeHaha stress levels. Start getting used to them now. It starts out with being stressed about getting in nursing school. Then you get stressed about passing your exams and classes. You go to clinicals and stress about practicing your skills on real patients. Next is graduating and passing HESI. Then you can't work until you pass NCLEX and get your nursing license, but soon realize you may not get to work where you want and you may be out of luck finding any nursing job at all! If you are lucky enough to get hired, you begin to stress about how your job is nothing like what you were taught in school! You stress about your lack of experience and wonder if you will ever get the time-management under control! You are stressed because you have too many needy patients/families and can't find your supplies, and things go wrong, and why you went into nursing in the first place. Don't get me wrong, I love nursing, but you are going to have a lot more stressful things to compare in the future.

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Being in nursing school, for sure! Don't get discouraged..I find being a nurse less stressful than nursing school. Others may disagree strongly..it's just my personal opinion. Good luck!!

Nursing school was a breeze for me compared to being an ER nurse! School was just a honeymoon before real life nursing hit!

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Stress builds in intensity, peaks for the first year you are a nurse, and never fully goes away.

In school now (last semester) and it is defiantly more stressful than getting in. I think getting in has more anticipation and frustration but not really stress.

i never thought nursing school was going to be so hard/time consuming. i have always gotten through school with minimal effort on my part. nursing school is an entire new animal. i really had to learn how to study and figure out how to take the tests, very different from other classes. [color=#483d8b]i like to keep myself very busy, but i had to cut back on my work hours and social life so nursing school could consume my life, and it will! now i'm stressed studying for nclex and then i'll be stressed about finding a job and getting situated.[color=#483d8b]but you just have to believe that it will really all be worth it when you're working as a nurse. just remember there is a light at the end of the dark and scary tunnel of nursing school.good luck!

I would never sway and aspiring nurse, but until you are in nursing classes, you've never seen stress or a true workload. Pre-rec's and the application process is nothing, and I mean that nicely. You will have 8 hours of class, need 8 hours of reading and study time (full time school) while balancing a home and maybe work life. Can't be done if you like to sleep, so you have to decide where to skimp and pray it doesn't affect your exams. Eventually you learn, you have 5 books to read from including studying and preparing to go to a lab check off... only so many hours in the day.You eventually get adapt at what you can pass on, but for me it took a few months and I slept about 4 hours a day. Mind you I'm OCD and graduated with highest honors... but I gave MYSELF a quality education. The start of the second semester and half the class was missing, motivated me more that I dang well wouldn't let them weed me out and I studied more. You'll find slackers, know it all's and the quiet learning folk.... stick like glue with the latter, you'll do well thenSo now, you have very little control, once in... it's all on you... that my friend is stress