Whats the deal with all the crying?!?!....

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So me and my clinical friends were sitting around and lunch, talking about the program and we started asking ourselves about students who cry all the time. We had heard, from nurses on our floor that, that students before us have been found in the clean utility rooms balling their eyes out but no one in our group has even come close. Anxiety yes... uncertainty yes... but we have never come near crying?

So I would like to hear your stories about times you cried in nursing school. What happened to make you cry? Do you think it's an overreaction? We think it is but what do you guys say?

I remember doing really well in A&P back in my pre-req days and then watching my grade take a nose dive. I went from 98% exams to a 70% and 68% both in a row. I remember going into my car and crying a little but it seems like people in the program cry over the smallest things; like they screw up on their first checkoff or they miss a single point on the exam.

Whats the deal with this?...

Never cried during a clinical shift, but I did see it a lot during my years in school.

Sometimes, people just need to cry though and especially in nursing.

Yelling and cursing are weak. Depending on the context laughing can either be weak or not be weak... kind of like crying.[/quote']

Yes, I could have phrased that better. My point was that in the same context, of all of those reactions, crying would be seen as the weakest.

Specializes in Critical Care.

I can only speak to what my own students experience on clinical with me, and that is with few exceptions an excellent experience. I approach each student as a professional and assess where they are in their learning and tailor their learning and our interactions to help them grow. The only students that I have had cry were both performing poorly on clinical and when I privately called their attention to their deficits, they didn't try to learn more to improve like most students. They just cried. Hardly sounds professional and it won't cut it once they are out of school. Learn from your mistakes and do you best not to repeat them.

You guys are going to make me cry right now.

I haven't cried in years since I was a child. But I do get mad. I think it is just different ways people deal with things to " let it out".

In my opinion crying is much more acceptable than anger. But I am good at keeping it in.

i have yet to cry in nursing school, but i did cry in my summer job as an aide. a 96 year old lady at the nursing home i worked at was crying to me about how she just wanted to die. i held her hand and gave her a hug and she then told me she wanted to give me all her money when she dies. i teared up and when i left her room, a few tears were rolling down my face. i felt so bad for the poor lady :(

Specializes in Neuro.

The only time I cried in school was a day when I was running a fever (I didn't realize it when I went into clinicals) and was running on 3 hours of sleep. I had a pt. who was asking me to help him kill himself and I kept trying to distract him but all he would do was cry and I was exhausted. I finally broke down at the nurses station and my instructor sent me home. Then I had to have pts. with mental health dxs for the rest of my time in that clinical just to prove I could handle it.

I admit that I cried BECAUSE of clinicals but not during an actual shift. I was able to hold it together until the end of the day. I wasnt feeling a 100%, had a bunch of paperwork due and had a patient that did not want me to do a head to toe assessment because of my young age. Everything combined just put me on overload and I cried on the way home. It actually helped though.

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