If you get into nursing school, be prepared for a grueling one year (for Licensed Practical Nursing or LPN) to four years (for a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree).
Follow these five suggestions, and you are bound to fail out of nursing school.
1.) Don't be ready for any child-related emergencies.
Children get sick and need someone to take care of them; kids need help with schoolwork at the end of the day, children need to go to school and be picked up from school... even if you have a 12-hour clinical planned. But it's okay to ignore these concerns and just take emergencies as they come. If it's ok with you to fail classes or get booted out of nursing school, then don't plan with foresight.
2.) Don't prepare for financial emergencies as well.
Everybody has them; it's always something. A car that breaks down and needs expensive repairs, a leaky roof, unexpected medical bills, and others. The problem is, when you are in nursing school, you will be too busy to work full time. Don't set aside any extra cash or make sure that you can borrow money beforehand, so you absolutely have to work while in school...and you will not have enough time to devote to your studies.
3.) Study like a typical high school student or college student.
Forget the fact that nursing school is much more intense, and you have to keep your grades up to a certain level or leave the program. Party first, study later. Gulp down lots of coffee, do some late night cramming sessions to get those pages and pages of test material into your head for the exam the following day... there's certainly no harm in that, is there?
4.) Go into nursing school without first knowing what you're getting into.
As long as you're sure that it pays well and is a stable career, you don't need bother finding out if it's right for you. When you are doing your clinicals and realize you can not handle massive amounts of stress, life and death responsibility, and bodily fluids all over the place...it's really not a good time to realize you should never have gone to nursing school in the first place.
5.) Do a juggling act of work and school.
Pay no heed to those who say you can't work full time and study nursing full time as well. They're probably just a bunch of ninnies. Sleep's over-rated, right? And how much coursework could there really be in nursing school?
OR - you could do the complete opposite of everything we just suggested, and have a MUCH smoother ride.
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