I feel like I don't know anything!

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  1. Is what I am feeling, normal of nursing students?

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Hi There,

I was looking for just some input i guess. I'm an average student that came into my nursing degree with a previous degree. I'm currently in my 2nd year out of my 4 year program and I honestly just feel like I know nothing. I feel as though everyone around me knows so much more and I just sit there dumbfounded. I can sit there in the classroom ... where i thought I came in prepared.. and everyone is talking like they are already RNs... and i'm just the preschooler in comparison. It's like I can't get the biology behind things/disorders.. i can't figure out what tests are for what... what hormones cause this and that... all the damn medications and how they work and what they do.. everything is just a huge blur and nothing sticks. Nevermind when I go to lab and I feel like I got the skill and I go into clinical and just forget it entirely even if i've practiced before and felt good about it. I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I do my homework, I do my readings, I go to class, I go to clinical, i go to lab and to practice labs and sim labs... I always participate. Yet I honestly just feel stupid and useless as a student nurse. I just feel like there is just no knowledge in my brain. Clinical doesn't help when my teacher treats me like a complete idiot in comparison with the rest of my group. Should I not be in this career? Like is this just not for me? I love nursing.. I love everything about it... but I feel like I'm going to be a horrible nurse... like I just won't know right from wrong and make a bad call and then lose my job and then it was all a waste of time. Ugh please help...

Grades don't matter to me because in the end... The best nurse could be getting C's. Tests don't prove you know anything. All tests prove is that you know how to memorize and study. I just care that i actually know something and right now i feel like i dont know anything.

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Believe me I feel the same way, and I am thinking about just being done with nursing. No support at the school. No tutorial help when we come in they direct us to the books on the shelf to read. I am about out to give up. I feel depressed, and like no one understands. I do not even know how to get on the right track, so I can receive a pleasant grade.

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Specializes in PEDS.

I need someone to help me. I guess I am studying the power points wrong. The teachers tell us not memorize the information, but everything is in a freaking list. At my school if you do not get the stuff they label you as a person with a disability. I been checked for that, and I do not have a disability. Also the counselor looked over my stuff and sat in my class with me. My counselor told me that the main issue is how these classes are being taught by this teacher. So far the teacher has sent 10 students to the disability dept at our school. What do I do ? How can I adjust to all these different teaching styles. One day she is teaching this way, and another day something totally different.

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Hey I know this was yrs ago...are you still around?

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