Clinical placement making me anxious!

[AusSRN]

Hi everyone,

I am a final year nursing student, I have finished all the academic side of things and just have 5 weeks of clinical left.

I am currently on a busy surgical ward in a hospital that was where I dreamed to be.

On my last placement I felt as though I fit right in, I was contributing to the team and I felt so confident by the end of it.

But now 5 weeks out from being a RN, I feel so completely incompetent and useless.

I'm finding it hard to fit into the team, I feel like everything I touch turns to sh*t! And I'm constantly anxious that I'm in the way, wasting the busy nurses time and it's hindering my learning and also my confidence!!

I suffer from from anxiety and I feel like my nerves are getting the better of me here.

I am so exhausted from constant worry, and I'm already finding myself laying in bed worrying about the things I did that shift.

I hate following and relying on another nurse, I love love love working in a team but I hate as a student that I can't go give those meds, go make those IVABS in my own time. There's always someone watching and waiting on me making me feel rushed and then I just fumble and it gets so awkward.

Did anyone else feel like this toward the final I was really expecting to go in here confident, excited and ready to work as an RN. But I've lost all of that.