Emotional Rollercoaster of Nursing School!!!

xenonaut · Oct 22, 2008

Won't get on the "ride" until next year, but I feel for you. I wish you all the best.

unseen · Oct 23, 2008

HELLO...... and im on that ride with ya.... so don't feel alone. It is so hard to not get emotional when you feel like your character is being stripped. That being said, try to turn it around and look at it as skills enhancement. LOL. When you figure out how to do that ..... please tell me how. :eek:

chevyv, BSN, RN · Oct 23, 2008

Hold on tight! I'm not enjoying it anymore (not sure I ever did). I'm almost finished and its all I can do to make it is just keep my eyes on the prize! I think the worst is seeing the ones that fall. It's hard to see fellow students take their last breath and fail out of the program. Makes me want to cry, and yet I'm so grateful that I made it through another class. Bittersweet is nursing school.

RNDreamer · Oct 23, 2008

They give you a million assignments to do, then pack on a million more...because the first million just wasn't enough. LOL

smartin13 · Oct 23, 2008

Chevyv I totally agree with you. While I'm in the middle of the process I have already seen many drop out or be asked to leave. After every test I'm so thankful that I am still there even though I have good grades. However its always sad seeing who isn't there the next class. The program Im in started out with 114 were at 91. Last years graduating class started out with about 100 they graduated 59. Sometimes it seems less like a rollercoaster and more like a runaway train headed off the tracks.

Jenny67 · Oct 23, 2008

walked onto the Med Surg unit this morning to find only one peer looking at me {15 total, but are schedules do not match up as we are doing Med Surg II, Peds, School Nurse and OB rotations this semester}. Found out that TWO more peers have left r/t poor grades on our past two exams. One of these two and I began this journey 4 years ago together. Funny how we didn't think that we would survive Biology, Anatomy and Physiology or Microbiology...looking back, little did we know we were at the top of the rollercoaster and didn't know it...

I am just so absolutely sad. We've lost 7 in our group since last Fall. I should point out that we are a satellite center, I believe our class began with 125 total and there are now 73.

Anyways, I'm just sad.

shoegalRN, RN · Oct 23, 2008

Honey, join the club! LOL!

I am so over this ride and ready to get off. I graduate in May and it can't come fast enough. Next semester is Community, Leadership, and Capstone, the breeze semester.

Tomorrow we are having a Capstone meeting and we are going to pick our top 3 choices. Also, we take our composite pictures next Monday. Yea!

I'm just tired. I'm doing the bare mininum to get by. I usually score in the mid 80's (B average) on my test, but right now, I am sitting at 76% in my Peds class. I have 2 more tests to go and I'm gonna step it up to get atleast my mininum B average. I'm so over this journey and is ready for the next chapter in my life, which is acturally working as a RN.

Sunshyne2008 · Oct 24, 2008

Hold on tight! I'm not enjoying it anymore (not sure I ever did). I'm almost finished and its all I can do to make it is just keep my eyes on the prize! I think the worst is seeing the ones that fall. It's hard to see fellow students take their last breath and fail out of the program. Makes me want to cry, and yet I'm so grateful that I made it through another class. Bittersweet is nursing school.

chevyv- brings up a good point. Keeping your eyes on the prize is what keep me going. My nursing school was actually high school/nursing school. During my high school years i was in two car accidents(one life changing). A couple weeks after the first car accident I was scheduled to take a state test, that test deteremined my accpetance into the program. I was suffering from whipplash pain. I requested ice to numb the pain while working out the problems. I found that spring I passed. The other car accident was biggest obstacle I had overcome in my life. It was the end of my junior year and I was a year into nursing....I was doing great.... but again I found myself in another car accident. I was told I should finish off my senior year at home because of the pain I was in. I didn't . I worked hard to finish off the year while i had pretending I was ok.My teacher knew I wasn't and she did everything she could to help me. I ended up graduating number one in my class. As of right now I am not even sure I can work as a nurse.... I recently found out I have a cervical and thoracic herniations and about five more injured discs.

classicdame, MSN, EdD · Oct 24, 2008

Think of it as an endurance test. It does not have to make sense and you will not be there forever. This period in your life is just a stepping stone for the real event.

Blove86 · Oct 24, 2008

Think of it as an endurance test. It does not have to make sense and you will not be there forever. This period in your life is just a stepping stone for the real event.

So it seems:uhoh3:

DroogieRN · Oct 24, 2008

I'm definitely riding that ride. I run the gamut of emotions daily. Literally, every day I go from "I can do this" to "Oh my gosh, how will I ever do this?" and right back again. That alone is absolutely exhausting!

I'm 43 years old, in my first semester. I never thought I'd be here. I am beyond thrilled but also petrified. I'm loving it, but I am exhausted. And does anyone feel like they've been kicked by horses on the day after clinicals??? :bugeyes: