First year nursing student

MombearNurse · Sep 3, 2009

Wow! That's exactly the way I'm feeling in my first week. :confused: I keep hoping something will "click" to make me have more confidence. I'm so glad I found this website! :yeah:

munozg23 · Sep 4, 2009

I guess I'm not the only one then... thank all of you so much for all your input and advice! it has helped a lot! I wish all of you the best and lots of good luck!

shynurse · Sep 5, 2009

I think you get use to it after your first year of clinicals. I am not saying that it gets any easier but u will find your method to the madness. Just try to stay on top of everything that your being taught and if possible read ahead. Best of luck to you

SummerLin · Sep 5, 2009

im first year too and i was a tech for a year and im still completely lost and overwhelmed!!! just take it day by day and dont look at the big picture! im blockin out everything except for the next week! hand in there! we are all going thru it!!!!

shawo · Sep 5, 2009

I am also a first semester student nurse and believe me I felt and still do feel the same way. From what i've been told it does get better so, we just have to hang in there.

Iana

Lucky0220 · Sep 5, 2009

Hi To All New :nurse: Students!!

I went back to school three years ago, at the age of 56. Yes, it is overwhelming at first, and some semesters are harder than others. Just listen real well in class, read the material, and like another poster said, ask questions. What really helped me all through school was looking something up on the internet if I didn't understand as well in the textbooks. Those textbooks can be hard and the internet sort of "dumbs it down" for the general public. After I read about it online, most of the time I could go back and read the text again and it would be a bit more clear to me. Hope this helps and good luck to all of you. Try to enjoy the learning process. It goes very quickley. The REAL HARD PART begins AFTER you start working as the above poster said!

4mykids · Sep 8, 2009

I'm in my second semester of clinicals and my responsibilities have really been piled on this time. I went from 1 pt and no meds to 3 pts and all meds! I'm soooo overwelmed right now but I just have to wing it. Thanks for the support from all of you. We are the future of nursing!

tnchaos · Sep 8, 2009

I am very thankful to have found this website. I am in my second week of nursing school and I am "dumb founded". I knew it would be hard........but I had no idea that I would feel so lost. I have always been very successful in each career choice that I have made, but nursing has always pulled me. It was a struggle for me because my decision to take this opportunity and not pass it up, has caused great strife in my life. I do not have alot of support.............and I feel scared that I can't do it. I feel so overwhelmed right now. The instructors keep telling us that these questions will not be like any we have ever seen. I have done really well in A&P 1 and 2 and Chemistry. What if I can't do this??????

crownurse · Sep 9, 2009

Hi, I am a new nursing student. It is barely my second week of the program and I don't feel so enthusiastic. I feel like I don't know what I'm doing. I feel like I don't know what I should know. I also feel like I won't be able to learn everything I am required to learn. I don't know if what I'm feeling is normal or not? Did any of you nurses feel this way when you started out? These thoughts are leading me to think maybe nursing is not for me, although, I do want to become one. Please help me out!

It's entirely normal to worry and have fear along these lines. You will be the best nurse ever! Going to school doesn't make good nurses. School is a reference point that you will return to in your mind when you are working as a nurse. If you have genuine desire to help others, then you are in the right place. The nurses without fear are the ones who really worry me.

platanos1 · Sep 9, 2009

I ve been an RN for one year. I still feel that way. Let me give you one piece of advice. SOme nurses and instructors can be real nasty.I think sometimes its their way of feeling better about themselves. Stand your ground. I know easier said then done. I still walk out sometimes and just want to cry. Remember you are in the learning process. Be patient and take day day by day. If it makes you feel better alot of licensed RN's still feel that way. Healthcare is changing all the time. Hang in there. You can and will do it.

paganoid · Sep 9, 2009

Starting nursing school is like joining the military. Nursing school is completely unlike the courses you took previously. Instructors do not take you by the hand and tell you what to study; they refer you to the syllabus where it is all written down just like in a Policy and Procedure Manual on the ward.

Many students find the transition unsettling, but most adapt well. Just trust in the process, have faith in yourself and your fellow students. Make a network, find those students you can study with, and share your experiences. Remember, thousands of students before you have felt exactly the same way. I did. When you feel completely lost, just confine your attention to one small thing in front of you and pretty soon that will lead you to another and you'll be back on track.

I'm in my final quarter of nursing school and I have to say it doesn't get any easier, but it does get better.

You are going to do just fine. :nurse: Bless you and good luck!

paganoid

catsanders · Sep 9, 2009

I've been an RN for 23 years. I graduated with my BSN in 1986. I remember very well being in your shoes. Everyone has felt that way at least once, probably more. YOU CAN DO THIS. Nursing needs you, our patients need you. Take one day at a time, study, listen, and you will learn. You won't ever know everything. I learned more practical knowledge my first year out of school that I learned in the whole 4 years of college, but, I needed the foundation from school to be able to learn it. With everything you learn, temper your knowledge with compassion. We're here to care for those who need us and we need more people to take up our cause. Hang in there! It is all worth it when even one person thanks you for the care you've taken of them or their family member.

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