Hey All Senior Students!!

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So I've noticed many of the threads lately are mostly about new concerns for new students which I completely understand but I just wanted to write thsi because I'm very excited to be so close to finishing! I almost more nervous now because I'm so close and I would hate to fail now. I'm already worrying about jobs and NCLEX and stuff! Any otehr seniors out there excited to start their last year????!!!

Specializes in Neuroscience.

Scared and dreading it to be honest. Like you, I want to be done so badly, but yeah, then there's a whole new level on panic with job searching and the NCLEX. And yeah, what if I FAIL NOW. *sigh* For me, I've done a lot of thinking, and I'm not even 100% sure I want to work as a nurse for very long before I'm back in school for something else. I don't want to quit though. Besides, it will be something to support myself with while I pursue a greater passion. I guess I'll being doing a lot of lying from now until April when I tell my instructors that, yes I will be furthering my nursing education (fat chance) for fear that they'll fail me for being honest.

Plus after the first year, you are so over care plans, group projects, seminars, blah blah blah, realize that nursing school is nothing more than a bunch of annoying, time wasting, busywork, and eagerly await the day you can be released from your purgatory.

wow, negative much? lol

Excited? Only to finally be free my cage and move on from nursing. Work as a nursr while going back to school part-time for English. I regret that I didn't major in English in the first place, but I was young and dumb - well I'm still young and dumb, but not as dumb this time lol

I do feel bad at times about this revelation because I was so excited to start school and be a nurse, but all I learned last year was that nursing does NOT excite my senses. I dread going to clinical and I don't care for most people. Hospitals make me want to run in the other direction and I loathe spending time in them. I'd much rather be teaching people verbally about how to be healthy (in a classroom setting), not giving them a billion drugs or fluffing their pillows. I feel like a glorified waitress at best, at worst, a slave and a wannabe martyr. My introverted self wants to flee. I feel horribly fake.

This ended up longer than I wanted, thanks for letting me vent.

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Specializes in Labor and Delivery.
Scared and dreading it to be honest. Like you, I want to be done so badly, but yeah, then there's a whole new level on panic with job searching and the NCLEX. And yeah, what if I FAIL NOW. *sigh* For me, I've done a lot of thinking, and I'm not even 100% sure I want to work as a nurse for very long before I'm back in school for something else. I don't want to quit though. Besides, it will be something to support myself with while I pursue a greater passion. I guess I'll being doing a lot of lying from now until April when I tell my instructors that, yes I will be furthering my nursing education (fat chance) for fear that they'll fail me for being honest.

Plus after the first year, you are so over care plans, group projects, seminars, blah blah blah, realize that nursing school is nothing more than a bunch of annoying, time wasting, busywork, and eagerly await the day you can be released from your purgatory.

wow, negative much? lol

Excited? Only to finally be free my cage and move on from nursing. Work as a nursr while going back to school part-time for English. I regret that I didn't major in English in the first place, but I was young and dumb - well I'm still young and dumb, but not as dumb this time lol

I do feel bad at times about this revelation because I was so excited to start school and be a nurse, but all I learned last year was that nursing does NOT excite my senses. I dread going to clinical and I don't care for most people. Hospitals make me want to run in the other direction and I loathe spending time in them. I'd much rather be teaching people verbally about how to be healthy (in a classroom setting), not giving them a billion drugs or fluffing their pillows. I feel like a glorified waitress at best, at worst, a slave and a wannabe martyr. My introverted self wants to flee. I feel horribly fake.

This ended up longer than I wanted, thanks for letting me vent.

Awww I can kind of relate. My experience has been slightly better as far as the way we are treated a bit but I have found nursing has slightly discouraged me as well. At one point I was thinking why didn't I just major in elementary education. I have a friend in taht program and she's excited to go back and always seems so much less stressed and she'll have summer off as a teacher. Then I go back to liking nursing. I do actually enjoy what I've done in clinical so I think once I'm out of school and get some experience I may enjoy it, especially if I can eventually get into the area I want. I think the schools, admission process, clinical instructors, and professors really make it difficult to look forward to anything. Although I also have had some great instructors and professors too. I think even if you always have good clinical instructors they still are super stressful. Going to a million new hospitals, trying to figure out where to park and where to go in atwhat shuttle to take, then the floor itself and allthe people working there..It's like a million first days :/

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I am super excited to start my final year of nursing school because I am finally working in a decent sized hospital with supportive nurses and clinical instructors. Well, my instructors have always been supportive, but now they seem to know that I am competent and there is no threat of being reprimanded or failed. I am finally able to do all kinds of skills that I have only read about until now. It is an amazing feeling of the culmination of hours of theory becoming hands-on experience. I am in a med-surg rotation at a hospital that has a culture of mentorship among all the nursing staff. I am soaking it up like a sponge.

Quarterlife, I enjoyed reading your perspective because I have taken an opposite path. I have a degree in English education. I always knew that I wanted to teach, and I enjoy writing and reading, so this seemed like a natural fit. However, when I finally began working in the environment of the high-school classroom in my senior year, I knew immediately that it was not a good fit for me. I am not a disciplinarian, I don't like being the center of attention for hours in front of large groups, and the politics and low pay of the education system were less than appealing. I finished my degree though and took about 5 years to figure out that nursing was just the thing for me.

I do see some similarities between nursing and waitressing, but they are the things I liked about being a waitress: working on my feet, constantly moving, continually updating a list of priorities as complex, fast paced situations unfold. I also love the social interaction with patients and coworkers. This all makes the day fly by, and I feel so good at the end. I am relishing in my naivete at the moment. I know that I am in for some rough times ahead, but I think that my shiny new nurse idealism will work for now.

I plan to use my previous education to further my career in nursing. I want to pursue graduate studies in research after I get a few years of bedside experience. I think that I can take all of the reasons that I went into the English major and incorporate them into a marketable and satisfying nursing career.

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Specializes in SDU, Tele.

last semester!!!! i am a tad burned out, nervous, happy, terrified, and excited all in one:bugeyes:. i take my exit ATI in less than 2 months. i have a job lined up. i give so much thanks to God. :yeah:last semester is possibly the most challenging, as it is when we really get deep into advanced concepts and where we are most scrutinized and have most responsibility.

we can do this!!! class of 2012!!!! :yeah::nurse::yeah:

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Heck the double yes!!!!! I make the bulletin boards for our class and I am contemplating a countdown themed board, where we can count the days!

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Specializes in i can read really good lol.

Im super excited ill be finishing up in may with my entry level MSN and i sooo can not wait to start working. It has been a long year ( my program is 2 years long) and i know that this one will be just as long and hard but I am up for the challenge because the finish line is sooooo close. Keep up the good work guys.

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Specializes in Oncology/hematology.

If I saw a countdown on my bulletin board I would ask you to take it down. Talk about STRESSFULL!

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