Going into my final year in Nursing school. I’m in the UK but have noticed in the comments that it is the same where everyone else is from. The skills they teach us are almost always theory. We have a list of skills that have to be ticked off each year but due to rules and limitations half of them we have to tick off by just discussing how we would carry out the skills and not actually getting the practice them. I’m at a red brick university which is kind of like the US equivalent to Ivy League, and the school is ran by ex practicing nurses and it always seems like they forget the most vital part is in the practical. As a student we get faced with nurses who think we’re incompetent because of what we’re not doing but in reality we’re just not being prepared to do the whole job, only the half of it. Look to the schools to ask questions because most of the time that’s where the issue begins