What do you do when you want to quit?

[Nuked]

I had heard/read before entering nursing school that everyone experiences a time when they want to quit. I couldn't fathom it. Yet, here I sit. I'm starting my last semester, and I just completed my first week at a new facility (my fifth site of my two year program, not counting the "mini rotations"), and it just didn't go well. They want us to chart before we leave the floor. It takes me over an hour to complete charting on the system the school makes us use. My head to toe this week? Dreadful. Nobody noticed, but I knew it was awful. My instructor didn't like my primary nursing diagnosis or my priority setting, and I still can't see where she was coming from on some of it. My patient was challenging, but that's no excuse. I'd never felt like quitting before, but as this semester goes on I know they're going to expect more and more, and I don't feel at all capable of handling it.

What do/did you do when you felt like quitting?

[FLgirl1]

Talk to someone I trust. Sometimes it's my mom, and sometimes it's a professor. Last week, I had to stop by my favorite professor's office. She has been where I am, and valued her perspective. She gave me the encouragement I needed to move on.

[Everline]

I certainly have had moments when I wondered why in the world I got myself into this thing called nursing school. At this point I just have way too much invested and gone through too much to quit. That's pretty much what keeps me going during the rough patches. Luckily, they pass. Sometimes I think of nursing school as a beast to conquer...and I will conquer it.