Nervous pre-nursing student

[Hoosiernurse, ADN, RN]

I'm 36, mom of three. I know that life is tough and being a nurse is going to be hard work. I've overcome a life-threatening illness, am coping with school, kids, home and hubby plus all the other things I need to get done. I just got one of the highest scores on the LPN entrance test and, after having to argue with the people in charge who sent me a denial letter for the program but had apparently overlooked some of my past courses on their OWN computer records, I am apparently slated to be in the fall LPN class.

I THINK I'm happy about it. :stone

I don't mind being expected to do a good job and to be confident and learn. I don't mind being expected to give it my all and work together. And certainly by this point in my life I know there are ALWAYS people wherever you work, male or female, who are determined to cause trouble. I don't have to like everyone and everyone doesn't have to like me, we just have to work together and git er done. But some of these stories about people being senselessly aggravating have me worried. I don't like a lot of aggressiveness, and I don't like being made to look stupid just for something for the other person to do. It sounds like there is a lot of both, and I worry that I will be miserable. So many people have told me that they are nurses and they just love it, and I never expected it to be a picnic, but I didn't expect it to be some kind of cut-throat, brown-nosing attack on my self-esteem, either! That's how some of these stories sound.

I guess I'll just have to get out there and find the right environment for me. No way am I not going to try. It was this way in retail, too, by the way. The ladies there cut up whoever wasn't working that day and you found out from the others what was said about you when you came back. It STUNK. I HATE that! But you know, my husband works as a network engineer with all men and there is at least one guy who does the very same thing to his coworkers. He does as little as possible himself, but looks for opportunities to cut up the other guys and get them in trouble. He's drinking buddies with the boss, and so he gets away with MURDER. The day he made snide remarks to hubby about me staying home with the kids and DOING NOTHING, was the day that hubby laid him out, but still the boss does nothing and lets him sit in his office and look at Media on the computer half the day while the others are working. So see, it isn't just nursing. I sure hope wherever I end up I don't have too many of those types, because I'm just frankly not sure I can cope with it. Or to be more to the point, I don't WANT to cope with it. At this point in my life, I've decided time is too short to put up with dumba**es all day.

So please say that most of you have good work environments, and these stories are not typical!!! Give me something to look forward to!

Cara

[twinmommy+2, ADN, BSN, MSN]

I have a pretty good group of students I am with. Now, thats not to say that there are a few, cause there are always a few, rotten apples. I just pray they don't get in my clinical group and most everyone else I can work really well with. I just try and focus on the positive in the program and on what the next challange is.