Is nursing school hard?

Everything is relative. Running a mile would be easy for an athlete, but impossible for some who never exercises.

Nursing school is very hard. For clarification, nursing school IS college. Let me explain, it is not like medical school where you go to four years of college and major, and eventually get your degree, in a subject like biology, then apply and go to 4 years of medical school. You go into college and declare your major as "nursing." Your advisor puts you on a pre-nursing plan of study where, in your first two years, you take required courses like anatomy, physiology, microbiology, etc. Towards the end of your second semester of your Sophomore year in college, you apply to your college's nursing school. You make a resume, do an interview depending on your schools policy, etc. if you get in, you begin nursing school your junior year of college and finish at the end of your senior year. You don't go to nursing school "after college." Now if you plan on doing something else as a career and end up wanting to go to nursing school later in your life, you have an option to do that as well.

To answer your original question, it is difficult, time consuming, and it takes over your life. In my nursing school, Monday-Thursday were the days I was in class or clinicals and there would be a total of 32 hours of a combination of class or clinic that you would be in all of those days. An example would be class from 8am-4pm (not a class at 8, a class at 11, and a class at 3pm, I mean one class for 8 solid hours) Monday -Wednesday, then clinicals 7am-3pm on Thursday. And that would be every week. That time would not include study time, assignments, or papers that you would have to write, so tack more time in your day devoted to that. NOW you get to the end of your two years and you are NEARLY guaranteed a job that you will make $50,000 or so directly out of college. You can then, with more experience, gain more lucrative positions. So it can be worth it. I hope this answers your question, please feel free to ask any more questions if you need more information. I'm pretty good about replying. Good luck!