I am currently in nursing school, and believe me, it is as hard as they say it is, if not harder. It is hard, stressful, time-consuming, and annoying most of the time, but I am so thankful for the opportunity I've been blessed with. Michael Scott from "The Office" can tell you exactly how nursing school is. It is rough, but at the end of the day, I am just glad to be able to help people. Here is a long list of Michael Scott showing how a nursing student might feel during nursing school.
When I am sitting in class trying to learn about every single disease process and just had to pull an all-nighter for the test I had that day:
When I come into class and hear how much more everyone studied compared to myself:
When I open the test to see that most of the questions are "select all that apply" questions, and finally, after the fifteenth one:
When I make an A on the test:
After a long day of school, clinical, and studying:
My family has to keep telling me this:
After a messy day in clinical:
During clinicals:
The face I make 10 times a day during clinical (which I try to only do in my mind):
When I get home from clinical and am really hungry:
After I've studied for a test for the past week and still can't recall anything I've read, after my two days of clinical were disastrous, after I had to somehow write a paper in the dreaded APA format, when I get home to a messy room, and when I still have to study more, I have to encourage myself by chanting aloud:
The morning before a test day, or any other day in nursing school:
Every day in clinical with a patient:
When my patient asks me a question, my answer is usually:
Preparing myself for clinical each time:
After our teacher taught us a new skill to practice in the lab and after we get checked off, we are released to do it in real life to real patients during clinical:
When I am about done mentally with the nursing school semester, and we still have eight more weeks and 16 more days of clinical:
After I cry a little bit from the stress, I run to the couch and turn on the TV:
At the end of the day, I remind myself:
At the end of the semester, finally:
Now you know a little bit about a nursing student's life. "The Office" is another one of those shows that makes me laugh in the midst of the craziness of nursing school. When I ever have down time, which is sadly pretty rare, I'll turn this show on and laugh my head off. It is good therapy, believe me. You have to make time to enjoy yourself when you're under loads of stress. Now that you've read my article, when someone talks about nursing school, you can say that you read an article about it. You can tell that person what I talked about, and then you can say, "That's what she said!"
