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How do you stay motivated until the end, through the ups and downs? Nursing school is hard. Is there ever a point where you feel like the sacrifices aren't worth it or won't pay off in the end? #Spring25

After years of different medical programs, I've finally been accepted into an ABSN program. Now, with restricted financing and funding, having to step back from work and time with my family, I wonder if my dream of becoming a nurse is worth the sacrifices, blood, sweat, and tears.

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Cindy’s Answer

It is worth it if your heart is set on being nurse. I would not recommend it if nursing was an option rather than a calling. There are easier options out there that pay more money. And if you put the same amount of work into them as you put into nursing, you would probably be extremely successful with less stress. At the end of the day, looking at what is required of nurses compared to other careers (and I say this as someone who came from a business/accounting/IT background), nursing takes a lot of of you as a person - but you might eventually earn a little less than someone in another field while doing things that sometimes make you subservient. That is why it has to be more of a calling than just a job. If you did all of these just for a paycheck, there are other better paying jobs out there that do not require a piece of your soul. An IT person will never have to help someone in their dying process, or help bring a life into this world. An accountant will never have to deal with someone else's caner or heart attack other than their own. These are the realities of our job. Yet we do it with joy.

And nursing school sucks, but the training goes by fast. one moment you are barely getting by because it is hard. And the next you have 2 years experience. Nursing school is hard. Do not make sadden decisions, especially during hard classes like med-surge or pharm. ABSN is especially hard because you have to cram 4 years worth of work into 1 year. Realistically, you should barely be working if you are in an ABSN program. I know - I did ABSN, and I was struggling even after doing an LPN and working as a tech for more than 10 years.

Most of all, give yourself grace. All those other nurses made it. And some were probably not as bright or caring as your are, Why not you?







Most of all, give yourself grace.
Thank you comment icon Hi Cindy, Thank you so much for this brutal, yet honest truth. I feel the nerves and fears just take over the excitement. I think I just have to do it and start there. I know it’s what my heart wants to do. I have to use the fear as motivation. Evelyn
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Martin’s Answer

Nursing school is the absolutely worse part of nursing! You are having to deal with a great deal of material being thrown at you by egotistic professors that are just trying to protect their phony baloney jobs. With that said, is nursing worth it, I would have to say my experiences all say yes. I looked at the educational process as a game. You have to play their game and survive, in order to then be allowed to take the exam that will finally allow you to really get experiences as a nurse. If you are really looking to nursing as a career, just remind yourself that this is the price you will pay for a life time of helping people and contributing something positive to society. While nursing is not easy, at the end of a hard day, you can at least hold your head high and say that you tried to make things better for those whose lives you crossed.
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