Re: 8 months until graduation and I want to drop out!!
trust me i know its horrible that i am throwing away all this money. but i just figured out about 2 months ago that i do not want to be a nurse. before that, pretty much everything we did was aide work which i did great at and am used to because ive been an aide for 3 years.
but this second year of nursing is totally different. we are really learning what it is to be a nurse, what they do, all their responsibilities, etc. ive also been observing the nurses more at work and realizing that it is something i do not want to do.
im paying all my tuition with grants and student loans. i probably have about $15k in loans to pay back. everyone keeps saying that i should have figured this out a long time ago....but it just hit me. last year i had a feeling i didnt like it but i just thought maybe it was because i just didnt like school. but this year i absolutely hate me clinicals, i hate doing assessments, charting, passing meds, etc etc etc. i couldnt have realized it sooner because i never really realized what it was like to be a nurse. also the fact that i feel like im not catching on at all, i feel like ive learned nothing. im not comfortable at all with nursing...i just feel like its not my thing at all.
then my instructors dont help at all. they are very short with you, they act like they hate answering questions. last year a student asked the teacher a question and she said "cant you read??? you spend all this money on your books and you cant even look it up???" we dont spend all this money for school only to teach ourselves from a book. they all get sarcastic and smart alecky with us. all the instructors tell us different things from each other so what is right with one instructor gets us yelled at by another instructor. we never have time in the nursing lab...so they give us a list of how to do a procedure and then they expect us to read it, teach ourselves, then go do it correctly on a real patient.
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