are you scared you won't make it??

[imupallnite]

Are any of you scared you won't be able to make it through school? i start my pre-reqs in september and am so happy and scared about it! I am 36 haven't been in school since 10th grade ( got my high school equivalency diploma later), I went to cosmetology school and passed boards with good grades and recently took a dental assisting course and got the highest grade out of my class, but looking at 4 years of school laid out in front of me is intimidating!! I want to do this but am so scared of investing time money and going in debt and then not being able to get to the goal!! how many of you are in the same boat?

lynn

[javagirl]

I was a nursing student and now I am a student taking two lousy credits pharmacology and career planning. I have no major at the present and took alot of classes to even get into nursing and now it is over for good, I've already been readmitted and failed for the second time. I feel incredibly stupid because I know the skills and was doing well in the class but anxiety grabbed me in the clinical setting and resulted in me basically loosing my confidence and not doing as well as I should have. I will finish out the year and take microbiology and business math over the summer and hopefully find something that I enjoy and can do well. I really thought nursing was right for me too.

Elizabeth,

College coursework is never a waste of time. Nursing pre-reqs are needed for a lot of healthcare professions from respiratory therapy to phyisical therapy to lab technology, you name it! You are not a failure and maybe nursing just isn't for you, but you could still be an ultrasound diagnostician or something else with patient interaction.

Javagirl