Please please help!!!!!!!!!!!!

lala1016 · Feb 19, 2012

I have not started the Nursing Program yet. I start in May, and I am so excited! Anyways, I have been attending full-time classes obtaining my AA and getting my pre reqs finished with three small children. I have had one semester when I felt like this. I lost my motivation and even disliked one of my professor's who made the class so boring, but all of these feelings passed. As soon as the semester was over and I had that little break in between, I was ready to start the next semester and haven't felt that way again. I hope this helps. I say keep pulling through this semester. It will get better!

♑ Capricorn ♑ · Feb 19, 2012

Keep your eye on the prize. Graduation. Let that be your motivation. I am not there yet, but I can only imagine feeling what you are feeling. Take it day by day. Nursing school is a stepping stone to greater and better things. School is only temporary but your career will last you a lifetime. Hopefully one day I'll be able to look back and wonder why I was so upset about this or that, or how did I manage to get through this or that. I already feel this way about my pre-nursing classes, because that in itself was a big accomplishment.

I think setting daily goals for yourself and then rewarding yourself after you have completed them, will give you the satisfaction you might be craving right now. Because you enjoy clinical so much, maybe working in a hospital as a tech while you're in school will keep you going. I don't know. :)

I think its normal that not everyone enjoys every single little thing we're taught in school. There will always be subjects we enjoy more than others. We breeze through material we enjoy and slug through the stuff we hate, but we have to learn it. Try and make the best of it and take from it as much as you can.

Anyways, enjoy your time in school because one day it all will be over. You'll maybe look back at it and wonder what all the fuss was about and say, "I remember when...".

Hang in there.

OB-nurse2013, BSN, RN · Feb 19, 2012

Thanks!!!! I am trying to and really I actually like the information that we're covering. I have another med/surg class, psych, and OB and I find tehm all really interesting. I don't really like psych clinical but have a great instructor. I guess whats gotten to me is all the extra crap. Not getting our palcements until last minute and then getting really bad ones (I have 3 kids, so I have to try to plan), then they just keep adding extra stuff mandatory volunteering (I know oxymoron) extra clinical days, bad clinical instructor, xtra mandatory meetings, extra simulation activities and probably more then I can think of right now. I know I shouldn't be complaining and I should be happy that I'm in nursing school and happy that I've made it so far but those feelings have been drifting further away. You guys are right though I need to just focus on walking across that stage and graduating :) I just gotta keep on going and today I'm just going to think about a much needed summer break coming in 8 weeks :) Good luck in your nursing programs!

heather13 · Feb 19, 2012

I went through something like that during my 3rd semester. It was the dreaded patho/pharm semester and my clinical instructor was ruthless. I am by no means put off by hard work, but I felt like I was treading water and failing. I was frustrated and ready to quit. It's not uncommon or silly at all to have these feelings. I thought just like you. I knew that I SHOULD be happy and proud, but just couldn't summon up the energy.

Like the others have said, keep your focus on graduation. Whenever you feel that you are ready to give it up, stop and remind yourself how far you've come and how proud of yourself you should be. A positive self regard reflects in your work, and can even reflect in your grade. If you aren't feeling the confidence: fake it till you make it! Eventually it will get better. Good luck!

QuarterLife88, MSN, RN, NP · Feb 19, 2012

I know how you feel. I'm a second semester student and I am wiped out. The first half of my second semester comes to end this week and then we get a week off, and man do I need it. I am so exhausted. It may be a conspiracy theory, but I truly believe they pile work on us at an inhuman level, give us vague directions, and have our best work sometimes returned to us and told it's crap, just to make us crack and see if we can take it. Pretty sick, but it is what it is.

Just remember that while it hurts now, it will be worth it in the end, and the last thing you want to be is a quitter. Nursing school is a very small percentage of your overall life.:yelclap:

And oh yeah, ever since first semester I've thought about walking away at least once per week. It's the emotional rollercoaster nursing school plays with me.

layleebug · Feb 19, 2012

I went onto this forum after having a horrible day, after finding out I am pretty much doing really poorly in med surg. I just finished crying my eyes out and trying to get over it. I want to quit, I am over my head with work to studying. Believe it or not I read everything and do practice quizes and practice NCLEX questions... more than what other students do in my class and yet I am still averaging C's on my weekly tests. But anyway, thanks for this post because I needed to be reminded that there are others in my same position. I just need so much help I don't know if I can get through this semester.... :crying2:

lifelearningrn, BSN, RN · Feb 19, 2012

You've come this far- don't give up. This is a low- but it will get better once you get into a new groove... you'll be fine. :)

Learned Paramecium · Feb 20, 2012

Hey Patho, you are one of my inspirations from back on those lively OCC threads. You will be a future influence when I face the situations you’re talking about now, so hang in there, Good Luck & Thanx!

i<3u · Feb 20, 2012

I just want to tell you not to give up because I'm feeling the same way about OB right now. Good luck and we'll be waving our license in the air before we all know it!

classicdame, MSN, EdD · Feb 20, 2012

you sound like you are in burnout. Nursing school is hard and you have been at it for a long time. Remember that after graduation the chances of even seeing your instructor are small and certainly will not affect your career. So, ask for help with family and friends. Get some "me" time if possible and hang in there.