Poll: What is your biggest fear ???

studentnurse74, LPN, LVN · May 28, 2004

The procedures don't scare me at all (not yet, at least)! I'm afraid of taking on a big fin. aid loan, then flunking out of school b/c I'm the only one who just can't get it all! Then having to pay back my loans early when I have no money! :uhoh21:

Mandarella · May 28, 2004

oh my god paint...i now have new even bigger fears than a catheter...

yours are all completely valid and now i worry with you!!!!! :eek:

.....that my marriage won't survive the next 2 years because hubby is very high maintainance and needs my company, that my kids will grow up to be delinquent hooligans, that i'll lose my figure because of not having the time to eat properly, that i'll go grey with the stress of it all, that i'll make a mistake and kill someone, that my youngest will have an anaphylactic reaction to peanuts and no-one will be able to contact me because i can't take my cell-phone into clinicals, that my dog will get separation anxiety and start destroying things because i will be leaving him alone every day...... omg! someone remind me: just why am i doing this? lol!
paint.

RNNoMore · May 28, 2004

LOL! Mandy - now you know why my kids call me 'WorryWart"

Berta · May 28, 2004

1. No knowing that something is critically wrong- killing someone

2. Calculating a drug wrong- killing them

3. Not understanding the EKG- killing them

4. Failing the nursing program- killing me..

LOL

My biggest fear is hurting someone by making a stupid mistake!!!!!

ChrisA · May 28, 2004

.....that my marriage won't survive the next 2 years because hubby is VERY high maintainance and needs my company, that my kids will grow up to be delinquent hooligans, that I'll lose my figure because of not having the time to eat properly, that I'll go grey with the stress of it all, that I'll make a mistake and kill someone, that my youngest will have an anaphylactic reaction to peanuts and no-one will be able to contact me because I can't take my cell-phone into clinicals, that my dog will get separation anxiety and start destroying things because I will be leaving him alone every day...... OMG! someone remind me: Just WHY am I doing this? LOL!
Paint.

Good grief! Your husband and kids will be fine. They may complain a bit at first, but you'll be getting your lessons in assertiveness dealing with grumpy patients and obstructionist administrators, so you can tell them that the rules are changing but you don't love them any less.

And yeah, my cat already acts a little aggressive because I'm getting home from classes or volunteer shifts at 11pm. Oh well...

Boe · May 28, 2004

my fear is becoming pregnant. I have two beautiful children, but I am not ready for any Permanent birth control options. So although I have a great support system (my husband and in-laws) and I know it would not be the end of everything if it did happen, sometimes "99% effective" just doesn't seem effective enough.

Louisepug · May 28, 2004

My biggest fear would also be giving someone the wrong dosage of something and hurting them. I am also not a "math" person and I am afraid that under pressure I won't be able to figure out the dosages and fail my clinicals!

MOONIELOVE · May 29, 2004

Hi everyone

For me, it's everything. Everything that is to come before me in nusing school and if i make it to my career. :nurse:

The second thing is math. I hate it and is scared to death of trying to figure something out using it. :chair:

God bless me!

crb613, BSN, RN · May 29, 2004

just wanted to ask all you fellow to be rn students what is your biggest fear before you start your clinicals? or if you almost done, what is your biggest fear when you start on the job?
mine is the iv's...i don't mind shots at all, but putting iv's in veins correctly.... omg.....(wake me up, i just fainted)

my biggest fear is hurting or killing someone!! :imbar by hurting someone i don't mean needle stick i mean doing real damage. this will be foremost in my mind and i just hope i won't lock up. i just want to make sure i learn what i need to know and how to use it when needed. i feel like a dog chasin my tail. :uhoh21: lord let me learn and give me the wisdom to do it right. good luck to all of us.crb613

mamaof3 · May 29, 2004

Just not being able to handle everything, (school, work, kids.) Also, Not surviving financially. My school is covered. But I am the sole supporter of three kids. I just don't know if I will be able to work enough during nursing school to provide for us.

Havin' A Party!, ASN, RN · May 29, 2004

... having to stick a very squirmy, crying kid with a needle - what if I hurt them?...

This one's up there for me.

How to overcome causing people pain?

danaRN2b · May 29, 2004

Mine is managing my kids while I'm in school. Childcare...my daughter is starting kindergarten & I have to find someone that will be able to take her to school in the middle of the day. That stresses me out. Then I worry about having enough time & energy to do all of the reading and studying that has to be done. My three year old won't go to sleep unless I lay down with him, and once I do that, I have a really hard time getting myself off my butt & back at it! I'm also worried about my nice clean house going to hell & me not having time to do anything about it....I could go on and on!