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How much of that is actually going to translate into making me a more effective nurse?
Probably about two hours of take-home, apply it to the job knowledge.
I am not kidding.
What a great attitude. You sound like the hundreds of pre-nursing students I am surrounded by that constantly bitch that most of their pre-reqs are worthless. Guess what, if you put in a half assed effort I'm pretty sure you won't get anything out of the class and of course you'll be able to say it hasn't helped you be a better nurse.
I had to take a year of calculus based physics to get into pharmacy school, do you think I am ever going to use any of it? I won't be using a catapult to launch the pills into the patient's mouth, so why did I have to learn about gravity, acceleration, velocity, etc? Why? It teaches problem solving skills. It teaches you to evaluate a problem, gather data, formulate an approach, then to solve it and check to see if your answer is logical.
Instead of going into a class assuming you won't learn anything, go in looking for opportunities to learn and apply those things. I have a friend who's been a nurse for 20+ years, she has a half dozen set of acronyms after her name. Do you think she uses every single bit of information she has ever been taught in class? Of course not, but that's more a reflection on the specific type of work she does than on her education. She could manage the entire nursing staff at a hospital if she wanted to. But she doesn't want to do that any more. Were those classes a waste? No, she might change her mind some day. I'd much rather have that knowledge waiting in the background in case I need it some day, than to be stuck in a situation I am clueless about because I wanted to do the minimum in school.