Our days were filled with lectures, practice labs and writing care plans. Clinical training was also required to provide patient care under the guidance of an instructor. We would often visit patients in the hospital that we were caring for, write care plans and submit them to our clinical instructors the next morning.
Add to that the fact that many of our classmates had to work in order to pay tuition and dormatory fees as well as to feed themselves from time to time. To write a lot of essays in nursing school.
We used to write papers on weekends, or late into the night before going to bed. Then we started the process again at 0700.
This is why so many of us did it in our early twenties. It would be impossible to do it today.
Writing papers in nursing school was difficult because it took so much time.
Our days were filled with lectures, practice labs and writing care plans. Clinical training was also required to provide patient care under the guidance of an instructor. We would often visit patients in the hospital that we were caring for, write care plans and submit them to our clinical instructors the next morning.
Add to that the fact that many of our classmates had to work in order to pay tuition and dormatory fees as well as to feed themselves from time to time.
We used to write papers on weekends, or late into the night before going to bed. Then we started the process again at 0700.
This is why so many of us did it in our early twenties. It would be impossible to do it today.
Nursing school is nothing like other undergrad programs. It comes with clinical, hundreds of pages worth of reading and research, endless care plans, essays, and research papers peppered throughout the term to keep you on your toes. So don’t think learning to be a nurse is just about studying biology and anatomy and how to care about patients. Professional nurses deal with documentation of all kinds daily, and nursing programs are designed to build your writing skills, whether you want it or not. So what kind of papers do you write in nursing school, and how many? Read on to find the answer for any nursing program!
Not all nursing programs are created equal. Regardless of national standards and accreditation policies, schools come with different requirements for the number of writing assignments. And the higher your academic and career goals get, the more writing you will have to do inside the classroom and beyond. Below you’ll find rough estimates of the writing tasks you’ll be expected to complete throughout different nursing programs. These are based on national averages, so the exact numbers for your program and school may be different.
