One month until graduation: is this really going to happen?

[SharonH, RN]

I don't know what's wrong with me. I feel like I am spinning in circles. I have one month until graduation and I keep thinking that this is not really going to happen; that something is going to happen at the last minute and everything is going to crash. I haven't started a job hunt or even updated my resume. I can't get anything done. I don't know what this is about, I don't remember feeling like this when I graduated from undergrad but then again when you are very young you just assume everything will turn out your way. And don't get me started on fears about assuming a new role.......

Sorry, I just had to let it out. Thanks for reading.

[GrnHonu99, RN]

Hey Elk - we graduate the same day! Yippee!

Congrats!!! Counting down the days im sure!:)

[CHATSDALE]

when you first start it seems that graduation is down and endless tunnel and then BAM you are at your destination

if you can afford to take a couple of weeks off and enjoy a vacation, many places you can't take off for a minimum of a year

you will be a great nurse...keep learning every day

[gauge14iv, MSN, APRN, NP]

I have had nightmares about the following in the past month:

Some project that should have been done 2 semesters ago got missed somehow and now I wont graduate.

Something happens to the latter half of my clinical log.

My graduation application somehow got lost in the registrars office

The paper that is due the week before graduation gets a failing grade and there isnt time to rewrite it.

I figure out that I dont know everything (duh!) and decide to spend another year in school.

[SharonH, RN]

I have had nightmares about the following in the past month:

Some project that should have been done 2 semesters ago got missed somehow and now I wont graduate.

Something happens to the latter half of my clinical log.

My graduation application somehow got lost in the registrars office

The paper that is due the week before graduation gets a failing grade and there isnt time to rewrite it.

I figure out that I dont know everything (duh!) and decide to spend another year in school.

That is exactly what I have went through. Exactly, those same types of fears, that something will go wrong.

BUT I have good news to report, yesterday I took my final exam and I have finished clinicals and turned in all my paperwork so I am starting to feel a bit of relief that this thing will happen. We will see. May 6th come on!

[elizabells, BSN, RN]

I feel you, Sharon. Some days I kind of want to vomit. I dreamed the other night that I went in to work at the unit I'm doing my final clinical at, and there had been another 9-11 type event, and I ended up working five shifts in a row with no preceptor. And of course the supply room and bathroom kept moving around the unit! Told my shrink the dream and he busted out laughing. Good I can keep someone amused!