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I am not doing so good in my nursing classes. I feel so sad and angry that I been doing so bad. It is so hard to keep up in your reading that I can't even write notes because it is like time is running out. Maybe I can't take 5 classes like everyone one else can. I can barely keep up. I don't have any children so having studying time is not the problem. It sometimes get loud at home, but I go in my room. I thought about droping some classes. If I drop Nusing Practicum I, I have to drop Nursing Concepts I you can't take one without the other. I don't feel like I am stress, but feel like so much is on my plate. Then on top of that I didn't pass my vital signs checkoffs today. We had to do an enemas checkoff also I pass that. I don't know if this is the direction I am suppose to go in. I want to enjoy this, and I don't feel happy.

Ebony

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Are you international student ( do you have to have no less than 12 credit hrs pre semester?)

Are you enrolled in the actual nursing program or these are just prerequisites?

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Specializes in Nursing Professional Development.
I want to enjoy this, and I don't feel happy.

Ebony

I don't know if you can handle the work load or not. You may want to talk with a counselor at your school -- someone who can review your performance to see how it compares to the other students. Maybe you are not doing quite as badly as you think. Maybe you are used to be very successful and are now only doing "average" and that seems bad to you. From the limited in your post, I can not determine that.

However ... I did want to comment on the part of your post I quoted above. Even the best students do not always enjoy school and don't always seem happy. Learning to keep working hard when the going gets rough is a part of becoming an adult and becoming a profession -- regardless of the profession. All those TV shows and movies about med students, doctors, nurses, lawyers, etc. make it seem glamorous and it exiting to overworked and stressed out. The show the characters as being stressed, but somehow it doesn't seem so bad for those people on the TV. In real life, it is usually no fun to be stressed.

If you expect your career to always be fun and always make you happy, you are setting yourself up for disappointment -- in whatever field you finally choose. So, as you assess this situation, be realistic in your expectations of yourself and of your school experiences. Are you doing as well as most of your classmates? Do you still want to be a nurse and take care of patients? If the answer is yes, it might be worth it to dig in and bear with it for a while before giving up. However, if the answer to both questions is "no," then you might want to explore some of your other options -- but don't expect them to be easy either.

Good luck,

llg

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Are you international student ( do you have to have no less than 12 credit hrs pre semester?)

Are you enrolled in the actual nursing program or these are just prerequisites?

I am a nursing student.

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I think you should drop some of your classes, because it's just too much...

If you are doing it to keep your student status ( 12 credits), then you should know that it's not neccessary, because INS considers nursing students ( enrolled in nursing program) to be full time students even if they are taking less than 12 hours/semester.

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