If You Coasted Through Prereqs, Nursing School Will Expose You

Many current nursing students were destined to struggle.

Why? Because they avoided the hard work in pre-nursing. They winged everything and they thought that they were going to wing it in nursing school.

They took the easiest science courses, dodged real lab work, never locked in study habits, and focused on passing rather than learning. Now, they’re in nursing school and reality is setting in.

Nursing school is about applying knowledge, thinking critically, and making split-second decisions.

If you coasted through prerequisites, nursing school will expose you.

Some students cheated, took shortcuts, or never truly grasped core concepts, and now they’re overwhelmed. The weeding-out process exists for a reason.

If you cannot handle the stress of learning anatomy in a controlled environment, what makes you think you'll succeed in making life-or-death choices for patients in a chaotic, toxic hospital? Ha.

Take your pre-nursing studies seriously. Build good habits, challenge yourself, and learn the material.

Nursing school will be hard either way, but if you put in the work now, you won’t be one of the people panicking later.