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You will have few opportunities in life to feel as inundated as you will during nursing school. Sometimes it feels like the entire object of nursing school is to see how many students they can stress out of the program.
There is no situation where the old adage applies more realistically; “drinking from a firehose”
In all seriousness, nursing school is intense. You are learning how to care for a human being in the most complex of situations both physically and emotionally and there is so much to be learned.
On top of this you are only given a few months to cover the 1,875 pages of a MedSurg textbook before switching to an entirely new topic.
We all understand the problem . . . I’ll move on.
By Jon Haws, RN CCRN Alumnus4.4
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Download the new app here: https://nursing.com/app/
You will have few opportunities in life to feel as inundated as you will during nursing school. Sometimes it feels like the entire object of nursing school is to see how many students they can stress out of the program.
There is no situation where the old adage applies more realistically; “drinking from a firehose”
In all seriousness, nursing school is intense. You are learning how to care for a human being in the most complex of situations both physically and emotionally and there is so much to be learned.
On top of this you are only given a few months to cover the 1,875 pages of a MedSurg textbook before switching to an entirely new topic.
We all understand the problem . . . I’ll move on.

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