Nursing Student Burn out

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Specializes in Ambulatory Care.

I have 7 more months till I graduate. I have always done well in my classes. When I was accepted into school I was so excited and eager to learn! Now I just want to be done. I just want it to be over. No more exams. No more reading. I love nursing but I am over my classes. I need help. How do I make it through the last part of my nursing program?! I'm going stir crazy! Any one else feel the same way?

Specializes in Recovery Room.

Yes, and I am only in my second semester with about 9 months left til graduation.

Specializes in Ambulatory Care.

I'm not the only one! I swear there are some people in my class that actually want it to last longer! I don't understand! Good luck! I'm finishing my 3rd semester now.

I have 7 months to go and I am not burn out yet. I am enjoying this semester because I love cardiac and renal. I am starting to see the light under the tunnel, so I tell myself everyday "I am almost there", just hand in there.

Specializes in Ambulatory Care.

Thanks! Thats great! I love cardiac and renal. Perhaps its just my semester. Were doing OB/Peds I just may not be as interested in it as i thought I would be. (-: Thanks again!

Specializes in LTC, Med/Surg, Peds, ICU, Tele.

Nursing school is like pregnancy. You wait and wait for it to be over, then the real work begins!

Good luck!

Specializes in Ambulatory Care.

Thats funny. Thanks!

Specializes in Correctional and MRDD.

I feel exactly the same way you do. I started a 15 months LPN program on April 2007, I finished on July 2008. I started transition to ADN two weeks after my graduation from LPN. I 've been in an intensinve program for 2 years now and I am burned out. I am working as an LPN while I finish my RN, that does not help either considering I started nursing school when my kids were very young. (2 months old and 14 months old). I just want to finish, get a PRN job at a nice hospital and spend time with my kids. I have 8 more months to go and I can't wait to get this over with. I was actually OK during the LPN program, I gradualted with high honors, this time around, I don't believe I will that lucky. When I come home I just want to play with the kids, lay in bed and watch TV, last thing on my mind is do homework.

Specializes in Psychiatry & Geriatrics.

Looks like we're all feeling the same way. I have only 8 weeks left until graduation, yet instead of feeling excited, I am feeling so overwhelmed, distracted, etc. and it's starting to negatively affect my classwork. As I look back over the past few semesters, I now realize I should have used my down time more wisely to destress. So, my advise to all of you who have a little longer to go........Take advantage of any opportunity to have a little fun, destress, CHILL!, then you won't feel so smothered by school work! Good Luck to all of you!

Just don't think the time you have left in the program, just live it week by week and try to be positive. It can be overwhelming, that's what I do and I have less than six months to finish the RN program. You will see the light at the end of the tunnel pretty soon.:D

One year until graduation, and, frankly, if it were any longer and I didn't get summers off, I'd be in the mental hospital with some of my patients before the end of this semester.

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