It's up to you to decide whether nursing is hard or not but certainly it is not easy. Like lamak said, if you also plan on working AND studying nursing at the same time then you need a whole lot of discipline. No more barhopping. Don't get addicted to sajha.com. And hope that your significant other is not so demanding about your time. You need to bury yourself into the books and of course there is extensive "clinicals", i.e practicals at the hospitals and nursing homes.

Secondly, nursing course is not like your other regular college courses namely liberal arts courses. Nursing course schedule is rigid. Apart from the prerequisites, you don't have electives. And you don't get to pick your classes or class schedules.

You need to pass each semester to move on to the next semester. You can't fail one semester and still go on to the next and then come back to redo the one you failed. If you fail one semester you have to either start from the beginning or wait one whole year before you can restart with the one you failed.

And finally the NCLEX exams. Saying those exams are tough would be an understatement. In plain words, you get multiple choice questions but you have to choose the best right answer among all the right answers. Or there are questions that have more than one right answer and you have to pick them all. Not like your multiple choice questions from American history class.

So, azn, if you are ready to bargain for all these, then nursing is for you. And of course, AFTER you get licenced, be ready to work 12 hour shifts or even longer shifts. And also remember, within the nursing community they say that nurses eat their young.

As for me, I am not a nurse. I tried nursing but I also had to work hard to make a living AND pay for the nursing school. It took its toll on my studies and I failed to make it. I hope you have better luck.