How are you holding up with school?

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How are you coping with your stress?

i'm okay...just got in from a much needed night out with the boyfriend. no class/work tomorrow. so i'll be in the books all day! but tonight really helped! :)

I also cry, a lot. haha it helps too. :)

but honestly, i'm handling it pretty well for a 18 year old i guess...?

i did fail the first test (70). but i got a 82 on the second, and a 98 on the third. so i'm getting there. slowly. but i'll make it :) just staying positive & surrounding myself with positive low stress people

good luck & best wishes everyone!

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booze, meaningless sex, and cigs.

j/k- doing well, a high b average, just passed dosage calc tests without any trouble at all.

how about you?

thanks for the laugh.

on-topic: i play a mmorpg called maple story and do some extreme monster mashing on there. you may find it weird, but it relaxes me

-mimi

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I thought I was holding up pretty good, until I saw my doctor about these weird arrythmias I have been having. He told me I have mitral valve prolapse with symptoms appearing right around the time I started the program, soooo basically triggered by stress. Apparently I'm not fairing as well as I though :eek:

lol....I got the same thing when I started at my other school. Just know that you are not alone. I've got stomach problems now and I have to retake all my nursing classes. ha ha ha.......God, I wish I could sleep at night too. Nursing school has made me into an insomniac.....All I can say is calm down so you don't end up like me.......I can not believe it's 3am and I'm still up and wired. :confused:

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Specializes in critical care nursing, ED, education.

The volume of reading, writing and memorizing can be overwhelming...but only if you stop long enough to think about it, so I don't.

I totally agree with this!!! I have a friend who counts every page and stresses about how much reading has to be done by each date and cumulatively between tests. it is insanity. If there is too much time spent analyzing all that we have to do, you are increasing your anxiety and wasting time that could be spent actually doing the work, or better yet a chance to steal a moment for yourself to relax! ;-)

So far things are going well. Nerves are starting to calm with each test out. Although I still get nervous, i feel much more confident in the knowledge and the actual skills. I cannot wait to start clinicals at the hospital this month! I can't believe how fast the time is going. I am happy to say my excitement to be in this program, still outshines my nerves and ocasional frustration with the workload. I hope that feeling can last as long as possible.

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"Accelerated Program" is a euphemism for "I signed up for this butt-kicking voluntarily."

Ha! I'm not in an accelerated program, just in my first semester of a regular old ADN program, but I keep having similar thoughts. I asked to be put through this?! What was I thinking? LOL.

Mostly pretty good grades so far but haven't started clinicals yet (so nervous about that) and am now starting to see assignments piling up and of course multiple tests coming up that somehow have to be studied for while also getting the assignments done. Oh, my word! Just this past week or two I'm really starting to notice we have to do this AND this AND this AND this AND this... Hoo boy.

Probably the worst thing for me so far, without having gotten to clinicals yet, is check-offs. I have always had "stage fright" type anxiety whenever I've had to give a presentation in school or whatever, but I've attained a whole new level. No telling what my instructors think when they see me turn all red and sweaty during check-offs. Anybody got any relaxation, mind-over-matter tips?

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Specializes in PICU/Pedi.

Oh, yeah, and as far as dealing with the stress...nothing makes your BP skyrocket like learning about hypertension and how bad stress is for that, etc. I'm trying to do alot of deep breathing, everytime I think about last week's lecture on it!

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Specializes in Rehab, Geriatrics.

Hanging in there... failed one test and passed the second. The second batch of tests are around the corner and I am no where prepared. No time to work out at all and I am feeling very guilty about it cos i can feel my metabolism slowing down... Well hopefully it turns out good... i am beginning a radical study marathon from Sunday.

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