I feel so defeated and I'm not sure if it's normal for a nursing student to feel this way or not. I started my second semester a couple of weeks ago and immediately felt too overwhelmed. I had to take A&P 2 along with my nursing classes and even in the first couple of weeks, I was spending all night and weekend doing work and still not getting it all done. I also began to feel like nursing was way too terrifying for me. My clinical is on a cardiac floor and my instructor warned us that many of her students have worked with patients that died while they were there. I don't think I can handle the responsibility. So I've had a pit growing in my stomach and been so sick at clinical from nerves. I caved in today and took a leave of absence from my nursing classes. I am just taking my science class this semester and trying to figure out if nursing is for me.
To all you nurses/future nurses...how do you know it's for you? Is it normal to be this terrified? I honestly don't know if I'll go back. I've been planning this and taking classes to get into school for years and now I'm totally lost.
