Can't overcome failing comps d/t severe anxiety!

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Hey everyone,

So I am 51, in nursing school, this is a restart from last year's hiatus to fight a brain tumor reoccurrence. I had my Pharm comp yesterday and you'd think that I never studied a thing and couldn't get it together at all! This is my second failed comp. I remediated the first time and was ok but I am not so sure that my remediation on Tuesday after school will go well at all.

I am trying to analyze the situation. I am coming to a conclusion that I need more time, I need a tutor maybe, I need to practice with someone that gives me some valuable feedback before I go in. In clinicals, they showed us how the pumps work but I really never got to putting my hands on one. I went to open lab and there were over 16 students all worried about the same thing and I never got to one of 3 pumps that we own. So my first time that I actually put my hands on a pump was in the actual comp. It took 20 minutes to figure out out of the 35 minutes given for the actual scenario; I broke sterile field and my complete scenario was a disaster. My second chance to touch the pump will be at the remediation in 3 days which I doubt that I will have mastered this skill at all.

Should I just put my education on hold, look for a different program and ask that new director if there is a way for me to get more one on one time? Our school is not made up to do this at all. The program is still fairly new. The teachers are great but overwhelmed and not geared toward helping a person like me.

I also have the bilingual challenge. I think in French, translate in English and get in so much trouble misunderstanding so many. However, my grades are fine. I work 3 times as hard for them as anyone else but the academics seem to be ok. The clinical aspect though is not a place that I thrive.

I am confident with my patients but not with my teachers.

Any suggestions would be appreciated. I am wondering if there is a solution? Maybe I should just abandon this altogether.

Thanks,

Johanne

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