Stick with it.  It is not all going to be easy as you can see and there will be instructors that just don't have it as well.  That will be behind you one day and you will be glad you stuck it out. 

Cheers - Tim, R.N.

yeah it all just seems so hard and pointless.

it's at a state college, i go to sac state, and i do know about ratemyprofessor.com, unfortunately she's the only one who teaches this course. I'm just afraid i'm going to fail the class and then there goes my GPA and there goes the nursing program... i should try to take some of my pre reqs and the JC if it's a little easier, annd cheaper!

Thanks for your input, i don't want to give up on my dream, but at the same time i'm just hoping i'm not getting myself into something totally different than what i thought it was going to be like, you know?

Oh and i'm just starting my pre reqs and already having doubts =/ i'm already majoring in child development, because i want to go into pediatrics and i looove kids.

it just sucks right now =[

Sweet honk, Sevo. I'm sitting here dealing with that very line! And these kids want to know why us old goats think we know so much. Like we dropped onto earth at 50.

They think we were born last night. And of course they just know the  world has changed since we were young. Maybe - but people haven't.

YES Im mocking you.... you seem to think nursing is all about FEELINGS and THAT attitude is what is wrong with nurisng in general. I am sorry the SCIENCES are hard for you to understand.. But I have been a nurse longer than YOU have been consuming oxygen and SCIENCE is what nursing SHOULD be about. I am a CRNA..... you might want to google that.... and have been an LTC LPN.. ADN and BSN.. so again, I am a REAL nurse.. and attitudes like  yours annoy the hell out of me.

 And lose some of the piercings...

I don't seem to think that nursing is just about caring for others, although in my opinion, the best nurses are the ones that actually care about their patients, you seem not to be one of those types of people, which is odd that you're a nurse. I don't know what you're so bitter about, but all I was asking was for some words of advice or encouragement, and i got you complaining about young people?

I am good at science thank you, i'm just taking a crazy class that i didn't think would be so intense.

Obviously nursing is an art and a science, nursing is a lot of things, but being a bitter person doesn't seem to be one of them in my eyes. I'm not looking for a career that i'm not passionate for, I'm looking to fulfill my passion through nursing, and I know I can do it.

Thanks for the words of critisism, it was very mature of you.

There are optimist and there are pessimists. I tend to think of myself as a realist. After 30+ years of watching prospective nurses come down the road I have probably heard and seen it all. So have many others on this site.

Sorry I didn't mean to rain on your parade. I took it when you said even advanced students were lost in the class that you were including yourself in that group. I see now that you are just worried about everybody else and that you are passing easily.