There no crying in....nursing school

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I lied. There is crying. Prepare for venomous rant! I am in no way planning on quitting but I would like permission to throw a big giant temper tantrum. These are the reasons:

1) Between work and school I am gone over 50 hours a week. My husband also works full time so I am struggling to find sitters constantly--even more annoying is that there is usually some minute overlap in our schedules so I really only need a sitter for

2) I was working on a ginormous assignment yesterday and left the room to discover that my five year old snuck in like a ninja to play computer games. Instead of minimizing she chose to exit. WITHOUT saving.

3) In order to be able to attend all my classes I had to switch to working swing FRI-SUN every week as they wouldn't let me drop to relief (and that's probably a good thing consider the poor nursing student thing). My hubs works M-F. This means we never have a day off together unless one of us takes a V day which sucks because I really like him. :cry: He's swell! Not to mention my kids. I love those little people I made.

4) For as helpful as my husband is he totally doesn't understand the constant mental activity that accompanies nursing school. Just cause I am sitting there does not mean that I am relaxing. I am coming up with a mental gameplan of how I could possibly read 100 pages of my size 8 font med-surg book in the next week.

5) I am stinking chubby thanks to nursing school! I have gained 40 pounds in the last year so none of my clothes fit and I don't want to buy more (see #1--poor!). I have finally found a love for the gym but guess what? Don't have time for that either! I shoehorn in a half hour run on way to class if I am lucky.

There. I think that's it. To summarize: I NEED SUMMER VACATION.

Specializes in Oncology/hematology.

Self righteousness is not attractive, even when it's being masked as compassion!

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Specializes in Pediatrics, Emergency, Trauma.
Self righteousness is not attractive even when it's being masked as compassion![/quote']

Agree. Follow the pattern of certain comments and the behavior is revealed...

Now back to the thread...

OP, I am glad you are seeing the humor and looking positively in the ride of being in nursing school. Hope you ROCKED that test!!!! :up:

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Specializes in critical care.

Oh there is so definitely crying in nursing school. About 3 weeks in on this last semester, I just sent a note out on facebook and I told my husband that the whole world needs to just stay out of my path Tuesday through Thursday (but especially Wednesdays) because no joke, it was sheer torture. I just can't believe school made me cry. School!!!! And I felt ridiculous afterward, but no less upset or stressed out. I have kids, too, but thankfully haven't had to do the work/sitter shuffle. My hubs works second shift, so during the semester, we don't see each other most week days, but at least he can be with the kids when they don't have school, but I do. I just remind myself that I have passion, I want better from life, and this, too, will pass. Two more semesters and I will be done. Hang in there, love. We will survive this....unless it literally does kill us first. Boy would that be annoying.

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Some people just don't like a hint of tough love. I have no dog in this hunt. Do not throw me under the bus. I am not kicking the can down the road. At the end of the day, here is my message:

I love nurses. I am one. I heart All Nurses dot com because it provides a forum for us to communicate.

I will not back off from my post about weight gain. It leads to diabetes, etc,. (We, as nurses, know the perils.)

Here's the thing: We care for our patients each and every day. Shouldn't we care that much, or more, for ourselves, our own bodies? I say we should. I believe we can. We must.

I have tremendous compassion for overweight and/or obese people. I would like to teach them a way to get healthy. So here goes:

Walk as much as you can. Be as physically active as you can be.

Look up your calorie requirements on a website and stick to them.

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There is a song by Chrissie Hynde and The Pretenders called "Stop Your Sobbing."

My favorite line in the song is "...makes me want to take you in my arms and tell you to stop all your sobbing."

I wish I had the talent to have written that song.

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Specializes in critical care.

Multi10 what in the world!!!!! The OP clearly understands that gaining weight was not a good thing as she included it in a list of things that have gone WRONG and that have overwhelmed her while she is in the program. I have to ask - when you have patients who come to you in crisis, do you kick them when they are down as well??? I get that you feel you are coming from a point of compassion but that is the exact OPPOSITE of what you are portraying in your posts.

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Someone must have skipped the section on therapeutic communication. It's not just for patients.

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I smell a moderator will be posting soon which is a shame because I feel the OP original topic and post was nice and something us students and former students can all relate to.

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Specializes in Oncology/hematology.
Someone must have skipped the section on therapeutic communication. It's not just for patients.

I would have "liked" this more than once if I could have!

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Specializes in Tele.

There is definitely crying in nursing school...I found out I would not be graduating with my wonderful classmates that I had gone through so much with. That is the worst part about repeating..not redoing all of the info because that can be a huge help when it'll come to taking my boards but to watch my other classmates enjoy that last semester for them without me. ;.; 3

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ixchel

I just got back from Hawaii and was able to read this.

Such slander: To insinuate such evil to me. How dare you accuse a nurse (me, BSN) of kicking a patient when down?

But, even worse, you threw words around that made no sense.

Where is the fellowship? I don't really see anything about what I said that was kicking the OP when she was down.

On the contrary, I was offering good advice.

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Multi10 - In a world that is so PC, I appreciate (even if it wasn't towards me) the honesty and reality in your original post. Aren't we as nurses supposed to educate others about the consequences of our decisions? Even if we *should* know what the effects of weight gain and obesity are, sometimes we aren't wise enough to look at ourselves objectively and get real with ourselves, so occasionally it doesn't hurt to have someone else give us a dose of reality.

The OP said nothing in her first post about being pregnant and so 40 lbs is a significant weight gain in one years time assuming there is no pregnancy or medical condition to cause it. As people studying to be nurses, you should maybe lose the sensitivity chip and learn when it might be necessary to educate (or remind) someone about different things...even the sensitive topics! That is part of our job. :)

Good luck to the OP! I haven't started yet, but I know that I'm in for a wild ride when it begins! :)

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