Anyone else suffering from the midway blah's?

yes yes and yes...i am the same way..i only have about a month left of the semester and finding it harder and harder to crank it out..am becoming quite the "catcher uper" if you know what i mean...i am so glad someone else feels this way. I am ready for this all to be over...

Gosh me too! I graduate May 13th and I only have ONE project left and I'm more than halfway through that but gee whiz I'm like a slug! Can't get into gear no matter how hard I try!

...and it only gets WORSE!!!

I have literally had to lift my feet one at a time, force every keystroke of my papers and it has just been...
S L O O O W!
not much time left now, good thing cuz Iv'e got short timers so bad it's AWFUL!

OMG - this is totally how I feel! I've got a paper due in two weeks that I just can't seem to start writing. Once it started to get warm out school took a backseat to other things. Oh well, here I am on a Saturday just glancing at message boards when I could be doing my paper......not!

I'm not in grad school, but RN to BSN but I can certainly relate. I'm exactly one year in with one more to go and it's so hard to stay motivated.

traumaRUs,
just curious as to why you chose clinical nurse specialist vs nurse practitioner? what are the pros and cons, and i would like to know your views on the specialist role. i have been debating which one to do and have been looking into np/cns combined. thank you and all the best to you......

I can relate, I graduate this May 12th and I am having the hardest time staying motivated. My burnout level is very high! I have to force myself to get the assignments done. Oh well, it is almost over .

Nursie Nurse - I've got to be honest here: I chose the CNS route because it was cheaper! I have maxed my student loans with the BSN and MSN and I had to do something cheap...so I went to my hospital's college of nursing and the adult health CNS was what they offer. The differences in the roles are that the CNS is basically using the nursing model for care (in the true CNS role) and the NP uses the medical model. However, there is much blurring of the lines in both fields. For instance, I did almost all of my clinical time with an NP and that is the role I want to be in. In IL, IDPR (IL Dept of Public Regulation) doesn't differentiate betweeen CNS, NP and CNM - we are all APN's. The only one they pull out of the mix is the CRNA. I am however, only interested in the more NP oriented CNS role. For instance, I don't want to be an educator at this point, instead I want to see my own patients and be responsible for them.

Fortunately, this role is available in this area. Otherwise I would be out of luck.