Why does it seem like nursing majors complain the most?

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I’ve never seen that.

If there is one group of people in healthcare that deserves to complain as much as they want, it’s the nurses. When it comes to abuse from patients or doctors, it’s usually the nurse that’s on the receiving end. Personally, I’ll try to do everything I can to make their lives easier when I become a physician.
 
Depends on the individual. At my undergrad I knew premeds and nursing majors who would complain all the time, and others who were adults.

Surround yourself with positive people and focus on what you're doing.
 
I completely agree with you. So many nursing students I've seen have been like this. If someone really wants to be a nurse because they wanted to be one, they wouldn't spend so much time complaining about it constantly. They know what they signed up for. They do it for the attention.

I've even heard some of them say that nursing school is just as rigorous and hard as premed and med school.🤣
They like to talk about it so much so people think its the hardest thing in the world, but it just comes off as narcissistic and annoying. I think it's because of having an inferiority complex.
 
@TheBiologist I love my job and I love what I do. I love being at the forefront where a vast amount of changes are being integrated into patient care. I love the patient demographic that I am taking care of and the underlying neurological pathological implications that underlie the vast array of patient cases that come into the trauma hospital. In my free time I nerd out over Fix's Neuro and coloring in my Netter's. I think the M&M's hosted by my hospital are always fascinating and try to attend them when possible. I love the physicality of nursing and it has always been a big plus as to why I chose it over other professions which don't have that much direct face time.

Edit: I suspect that a lot of nursing students who are discontent get lost in a network of poor clinical instructors who are going through the motions. In nursing, the adage is very much true that those who can't practice end up teaching. And what's unfortunate is that there are many teachers who are going through the motions to the point where they are playing Khan Academy for 3 hours of a 4 hour lecture. There is little to no guidance in sitting students down and asking them what they are interested in studying. Students will tell you cardiac, but show absolute disinterest towards interpreting 12-leads or learning how to read telemetry strips. This is not to blame students, but to point out that education overall is lacking in meeting students and arousing an interest in exploring what they want to know than what they are forced to learn through an instructor who often times doesn't even care about the material they are teaching.
 
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ciestar said:
Ive never heard anyone complain more than pre-meds..
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Lol absolutely. Someone literally made a comment once (either here or meddit, can’t remember) saying “medicine is the only profession where you’re encouraged to sacrifice your home life for your career”. Tons of commenters agreed. I mean, seriously? Law, IB, people working 50 hours a week at 2 minimum wage jobs? There’s so much tunnel vision among premeds and med students that they tend to forget other people have to work just as hard or even harder, and usually for much less in terms of financial gain.
 
I’m honestly really surprised at all the kick back on this one. No one is putting down nursing majors or nursing. I feel like at every school there is usually one major or one tracks that thinks they have it harder than everyone else and constantly talks about it.

I’ve heard of at some schools it’s engineering, others say neuroscience, but I’ve seen many references and Memes about it being nursing majors commonly.

At my school it’s nursing/pharmacy. Although, I don’t go to a premed heavy school at all. So I would imagine at a feeder school or higher tier school they would be 100x more annoying.

I think this was supposed to be a light humor post and not meant to be taken as seriously as everyone is taking it.
 
Gilakend said:
I’m honestly really surprised at all the kick back on this one. No one is putting down nursing majors or nursing. I feel like at every school there is usually one major or one tracks that thinks they have it harder than everyone else and constantly talks about it.

I’ve heard of at some schools it’s engineering, others say neuroscience, but I’ve seen many references and Memes about it being nursing majors commonly.

At my school it’s nursing/pharmacy. Although, I don’t go to a premed heavy school at all. So I would imagine at a feeder school or higher tier school they would be 100x more annoying.

I think this was supposed to be a light humor post and not meant to be taken as seriously as everyone is taking it.
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People are going to take it seriously when you put down a whole group of people. Take time to learn some cultural relativism (high yield MCAT topic) and see things through the perspectives of other people.
 
I only witnessed this in intro bio 1. I dont remember most of my encounters with nursing students. Most of them were average academically. As for premeds i never really interacted with them that much . In prereqs most seem just hardworking. I know a few that would go to the professor if they believe a test was not graded fairly but the professor encouraged this.

My mom is a nurse though and from my understanding nurses are really catty.
 
samualjhatfield said:
People are going to take it seriously when you put down a whole group of people. Take time to learn some cultural relativism (high yield MCAT topic) and see things through the perspectives of other people.
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If someone said “premeds complain more than ANYONE else” would it be such a big deal? Do premeds complain a lot? Yes. More than other people? Sure.

Does that have anything to do with cultural relativism? No.

It’s a joke bruh, life (and med school) is gonna be tough if you have such thin skin.
 
StanleyYelnats said:
Lol absolutely. Someone literally made a comment once (either here or meddit, can’t remember) saying “medicine is the only profession where you’re encouraged to sacrifice your home life for your career”. Tons of commenters agreed. I mean, seriously? Law, IB, people working 50 hours a week at 2 minimum wage jobs? There’s so much tunnel vision among premeds and med students that they tend to forget other people have to work just as hard or even harder, and usually for much less in terms of financial gain.
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Lol when I was in boot camp they told us if we were supposed to have a family, the Navy would have issued us one. Another favorite was that you can either be there for the conception or the birth, but not both lol.
 
TheBiologist said:
not putting anyone down or trying to reinforce stereotypes but uh, to anyone who has social media, does it seem like people who are in nursing school complain/share rant articles more than ANY other major, by far? or is that just people I happen to know/ by chance

and why is this lmao
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This is so subjective lol.
 
There were a few nursing students in my intro bio class that seemed to complain more than the pre-med and pre-pharm students. But it was probably not a sweeping majority of nursing majors.
 
Actually scratch my theatre kid comment. They don’t really complain... they just are really annoying and pretentious.

So yeah... I agree, pre-nursing. All people complain, true, but for the actual difficulty and work that pre-RNs have to deal with it’s a bit too much.
 
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Matthew9Thirtyfive said:
Lol when I was in boot camp they told us if we were supposed to have a family, the Navy would have issued us one. Another favorite was that you can either be there for the conception or the birth, but not both lol.
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LMAO savage 😀
 
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Nursing school’s challenge comes from having to do clinicals and didactically simultaneously, which eats into study time.

Also, the demographics of who choose nursing might be skewing it towards a more complain-y bunch of folks.

Hope that helps. 😉
 
RNthenDoc said:
Nursing school’s challenge comes from having to do clinicals and didactically simultaneously, which eats into study time.

Also, the demographics of who choose nursing might be skewing it towards a more complain-y bunch of folks.

Hope that helps. 😉
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:corny:
 
RNthenDoc said:
Nursing school’s challenge comes from having to do clinicals and didactically simultaneously, which eats into study time.

Also, the demographics of who choose nursing might be skewing it towards a more complain-y bunch of folks.

Hope that helps. 😉
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Oh no...
 
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Podstar said:
Have you ever talked to a Podiatrist/Pod student that wanted to go to medical school, but couldn't get in? You might change your mind.
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I never met a prepod before
 
gyngyn said:
Care to elaborate?
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If you had to make a generalization about medical students, you'd probably acknowledge that they skew towards wealthy white people and asians, with a noticeable uptick in those who have physician parent(s). That demographic comes with behavioral patterns.

Similarly, my generalization about nursing students is that they skew towards certain (but different) demographics, and the behavioral patterns inherent therein lead to a lot of these anecdotes.

Of *course* these are generalizations, and humans don't fit molds... But if I had a dime for every nurse I knew who has an ECG tattoo/married to a police officer/deeply invested into MLM schemes etc., I could buy a new car.

I'm allowed to make some of these harsher comments because nurses are my "in-group" and so it's supposed to be less offensive. 😉
Can you tell I have a stupid number of sociology courses on my transcript? Because I do. And I hate it.
 
RNthenDoc said:
Of *course* these are generalizations, and humans don't fit molds... But if I had a dime for every nurse I knew who has an ECG tattoo/married to a police officer/deeply invested into MLM schemes etc., I could buy a new car.
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You forgot convinced that essential oils are better than medicine. 😛
 
Matthew9Thirtyfive said:
You forgot convinced that essential oils are better than medicine. 😛
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One time my staff nurse brought a briefcase full of DoTerra oils or whatever and had it in the break room. I admit to bullying her mercilessly (to this day) for that.

I recognize that some of that stuff has its place, but **** outta' my ICU with that ****. 🤣🤣🤣
 
ChandlerD22 said:
As a pre-vet student who has taken the same prerequisites as pre-meds and then some, pre-meds complain the most out of all majors I’ve come across. Even more than engineering majors, and it’s not even close.
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Most engineering majors are ok with Cs. Thier gpas aren't that important in securing a job. Most of my friends were in cs and engineering. Grades were not a big deal as long as you passed
 
RNthenDoc said:
One time my staff nurse brought a briefcase full of DoTerra oils or whatever and had it in the break room. I admit to bullying her mercilessly (to this day) for that.

I recognize that some of that stuff has its place, but **** outta' my ICU with that ****. 🤣🤣🤣
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Yeah. There is some utility in a small number of those oils for a small number of things, but the RNs who are into them think they can cure anything lol.

One time though I met a couple where the husband was a med student and the wife was an RN. The husband was super into essential oils, and the wife thought they were a crock of **** haha.
 
@RNthenDoc Can you write the races that you think contribute negatively to the nursing student demographic? If you're going to state that there is a racial demographic correlation to behavior, then you've already put your one foot into the piranha tank.
 
Pina Colada said:
@RNthenDoc Can you write the races that you think contribute negatively to the nursing student demographic? If you're going to state that there is a racial demographic correlation to behavior, then you've already put your one foot into the piranha tank.
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I don’t think he was referring to race when speaking of nurses specifically.
 
Pina Colada said:
@RNthenDoc Can you write the races that you think contribute negatively to the nursing student demographic? If you're going to state that there is a racial demographic correlation to behavior, then you've already put your one foot into the piranha tank.
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Demographic =/= race. Nice try, though!
 
Doktor_dud3 said:
"I have been putting this elderberry oil in my diffuser and I haven't gotten sick in two years!"
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I will say that there is something to some of that stuff. Like umcka has some solid evidence with returning to work a day or two early after bronchitis, lavender has utility with anxiety, peppermint oil has been shown to prevent chemo-associated n/v, etc. But most of them are just smelly oils lol. I also read a study looking at incidence of URIs in a group that took vitamin C every day and a group that didn't, and the group that took it every day had fewer URIs over a 12-month period or something, but there are plenty of them that show it doesn't change the outcome if you're already sick lol. *shrug*
 
At my undergrad, a lot of the nursing students were just party-loving sorority girls from middle-class backgrounds. They generally didn't post anything related to their nursing studies or healthcare on social media, because they were too busy enjoying the college's social scene (unlike the pre-meds and engineering majors, who sometimes slept in the library basement).
 
Osminog said:
At my undergrad, a lot of the nursing students were just party-loving sorority girls from middle-class backgrounds. They generally didn't post anything related to their nursing studies or healthcare on social media, because they were too busy enjoying the college's social scene (unlike the pre-meds and engineering majors, who sometimes slept in the library basement).
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Pretty much at my school too. But to be fair the prenursing classes are just ridiculously easy so might as well go have “the college experience.”
 
gonnif said:
The most complaining I hear from nursing majors is about the obnoxious premeds who keep telling them to get into "real" medicine
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lol is this for real? I have literally never heard a premed say something like this, but given some of the personality disorders present in the premed community, it wouldn't really surprise me.
 
Matthew9Thirtyfive said:
I will say that there is something to some of that stuff. Like umcka has some solid evidence with returning to work a day or two early after bronchitis, lavender has utility with anxiety, peppermint oil has been shown to prevent chemo-associated n/v, etc. But most of them are just smelly oils lol. I also read a study looking at incidence of URIs in a group that took vitamin C every day and a group that didn't, and the group that took it every day had fewer URIs over a 12-month period or something, but there are plenty of them that show it doesn't change the outcome if you're already sick lol. *shrug*
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Yet, you’d be surprised how many times my friend has received advice that using EO will “cure” her daughter’s DM1.

I know of another person who buys into certain herbal combinations that are used to “vaccinate”.
 
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