Graduating LPN school in a month..

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I guess this should be in the LPN Student forum, but the General Nursing Student Discussions sub-forum seems to be more active.

I graduate LPN school in a little over a month, and I'm not sure I feel ready to have my own license. I do pretty well theoretically, but I still feel like I fumble clinically.. maybe more than I should at this point, I'm not exactly sure. I think pretty much all of my classmates are the same way, and it makes me wonder if it was something our program was lacking or just a normal thing for nursing students. I've talked to family members who are in the nursing field, one is a DON of an assisted living facility, and she kind of pooh-poohed me and said I'd be fine, that as a boss she doesn't expect her nurses to know EVERYTHING. And I don't expect to know everything upon passing my NCLEX-PN. I guess it's just jitters about the fact I'm going to be out there on my own soon, responsible for the welfare of other people.

Sometimes I have trouble with the simplest stuff, such as getting a manual B/P (spoiled on DynaMaps during Med-Surg rotation, not good, plan on practicing over Christmas break) or finding those faint pulses in elderly patients. I think I'm okay with passing medications via PO, G-tube, IM and SQ (we don't do IVs, have to take a separate IV Certification course after we graduate) which I know as an LPN, depending on where I work (I live in FL, so probably will be a nursing home) will be a gigantic chunk of my job, and tube feedings I got quite a bit of experience with in my pediatric rotation, so I think I'm good there. I do plan on bridging over to RN, and hopefully BSN.

Is this a normal feeling for someone who's about to graduate a 1-year LPN program? I hope the confidence will come with time. I really don't want to mess up and lose what I've worked so hard to get.