What's a good reason to quit nursing school?

What would you do in place of nursing school? You can go through one line of work after another, but at some time you are going to have to settle with something so that you can support yourself and maybe enjoy your career. The problem most people have with quitting nursing school is that you do it too early and don't give yourself a chance to get it together. You might want to talk to a nursing school advisor or a regular school advisor to get some insight on your decision. Good luck.

You seem to be under severe stress. There is no reason to quit nursing school unless you did not want this bad enough. If this is your dream, you would not entertain the thought of quitting. There are many obstacles that came in my way since I started nursing school but these hinderances just motivate me to push forward. I am always a winner not a loser! I am above not below!

I am just the opposite of many people on this site. I believe that too many students SHOULD quit but don't for the wrong reasons. They stay because of pride, because other people tell them to "give it more tme," or most often, because they smply don't have a great "plan B" all worked out. So ... inertia keeps them in school ... miserable and going into debt for a career they don't really want.

Ask yourself a few questons, such as: What was it about nursing that appealed to you in the first place? What type of nursing did you imagine yourself becoming? What type of patients did you imagine yourself caring for? Do you still find that aspect of nursing appealing? Does doing that type of work still interest you? If not, why not?

There is no reason you have to enjoy each and every type of nursng -- or feel a connection with each and every type of patient. All the way through college, I used to say "If the only job I can get when I graduate is on a med/surg floor or in a long term care faclity ... I will go to law school. I will not do that type of nursing. I am only interested in a few clinical specialties." For me, it was neonatal, peds, maybe maternity. 32 years later, I can tell you I have only ever worked in neonatal -- and I feel the same way that I did as a student. If I had to work med/sure or LTC, I would leave nursing.

So ... analyze WHY you hate your clinical, what you hate about the care you are givng, whether it it is the speciifc specialty ... the teacher ... the stress of school ... etc. Ask yourself whether or not the reasons you chose nursing in the first place were legitimate and still relevant. That process of evaluaton wll help you decide whether or not you still want to be a nurse or not. If you decide you don't want to be a nurse, then quit and stop wasting your time and money on something that wll not make you happy. If this is just a case of you hating this particular clinical experience and you still find other types of nursing appealing, then suck it up and get through this particular TEMPORARY experience.

Good luck with y our deliberations.

If you generally have no compassion for sick people, then perhaps nursing isn't for you. There's no shame in that. Or perhaps you just don't care for geriatrics. Perhaps you would rather be a surgical nurse, for instance. Nursing provides many options to choose from.

But not everyone is cut out for it. If you aren't cut out for it, do yourself and your patients a favor and bow out now.

I would just like to tell you that you should think about why you got into nursing school in the first place, and if you still feel the same way, you should not quit. You sound exactly like me when I started nursing school. I had an intimidating instructor at the public hospital downtown. The patients all had AIDS (literally, no exaggeration, it was a med/surg floor, but most were unemployed and basically dying). I wanted to quit, but something made me keep going. When I started nursing school, I had no idea exactly what kind of nurse I wanted to be, but I found my niche in Labor and Delivery and I am glad every day that I did not quit when I desperately wanted to! If nursing is truly something that you do not want to do, then you should quit before you get out and find that you hate your job. But if it something that you still want to pursue (maybe just a different area or type of patient), then you should not let anyone or anything stop you!!

You are not the first person to not like geriatrics. In fact most nursing students say that is the last place they want to work. That's not a bad thing. I would say try to make it through the semester and see how you feel abotu a different clinical. If you quit, you'll never experience it. A lot of people hate nursing school right up to the day that they graduate. If you realize that you really can't do it and don't want to do it anymore, then I say quit. If you really don't want to be a nurse anymore. It's even harder when you have a bad clinical spot, or when your professor is just horrible. I think you've just got those first clinical jitters. You hate it and the easiest way out would be to quit but think about the other things you'd miss out on. L&D clinicals, pediatric clinicals. Some people truly have a bad experience, it's not common. But things might get better in the next few weeks, just hang in there.

Remember clinicals are NOTHING like real nursing...and for me they never got any less nerve wracking and there were still horrible instructors even at the end. And not all units are as crazy as med/surg. If I had a job anything similar to anything I ever did in school, I would NOT be a nurse right now.