Advantages And Disadvantages Of Stress In Nursing School

The Challenges and Stresses of Nursing School There are many perks to being in nursing school and eventually passing the NCLEX and becoming a registered nurse. However, there are many stresses and challenges that these future nurses have to face, even more stress than an average student or person. According to recent studies from Beck (1997) stress levels of nursing students are at higher levels than those of other professions such as that of medicine, social work, and even students in pharmacy school. Another study produced by Pryjmachuk (2004) also showed that majority of student’s in nursing school are more susceptible to mental health problems, including depression and anxiety, due to the excess level of stress that these students experience.

It is important to have a steady foundation of people who are there to provide support, such as family. However, having a fellow classmate as a study buddy may be even more beneficial, only because they know how it feels to be in nursing school and they know the stresses that come with it. Family is always great, but even if members of the family have a college degree, it is likely that they cannot relate to the amount of stress that nursing school puts on nursing students. Solid support systems such as study partners and family can help maintain a balance and can help reduce some of the stress that nursing school has to

Using lists is a great tool to help a person with a prioritizing task, make a list of the assignments that are due and order them from most important to least important; be sure to start with the most important on the list and then work down the list. This also goes along with the many tests that are given in nursing school, the most correct answer usually correlates with the answer that has the most priority. If a nursing school student can use prioritizing as a tool not only with assignments, but also with exams, they will eventually end up seeing the bigger picture as to what is being