Starting to freak!

[bowkerj]

I start my first semester of a BSN program the beginning of Feb. I was doing fine - excited, ordered all my textbooks, had orientation ect, and then today I started to freak out. I was at work talking to one of our surgery fellows, an MD, and he was saying how poop and phlegm gross him out the most - I said "eeewww gross, me too!" And he said "well get used to it!" And for some reason in that one little moment it all hit me. I suddenly realized what I have gotten myself into! Is this normal? What if I just can't handle the gross stuff after all!? Is there going to be more to nursing than bathing people and cleaning up poop!? I'm freaking out right now!!!!

HELP!

J

[Daytonite, BSN, RN]

Yes, Virginia. There are plenty of professional nursing activities beyond the poop, the snot, and the hockers. :uhoh21:

[smilin_gp]

Well, I am in the same program as you, so maybe I can predict a little. There will be a good dose of poop in the first term LTC clinicals, and smaller doses in the clinicals after that, but not too much. There is much more to being a nursing student than poop or phlegm cleanup fortunately. I haven't had to deal with that much phlegm actually. Maybe I've been hitting it lucky!

[NeoNurseTX, RN]

I can tell you poop and puke isn't the worst part! There is soooooo much information to learn.. it's stressful.

[Tweety, BSN, RN]

That's probably pretty normal. A lot of us have "the moment".

Mine was when I bought books and brought them home. The stack of books reached my waist, and one was a huge med-surg book. I thought "what the heck am I doing???????????"

Good luck.

[AllyRN82, MSN, APRN]

Hey Tweety, It's good to know that is a normal feeling (the complete lost feeling when you bring home $800 worth of books that you can't even carry up to your apartment let alone pilfer through in one semester). I just had that feeling the other day before I started school (first semester ADN). YIKES!

:uhoh21: