I give up!

bsngirl2015 · May 13, 2015

That's every nursing school. Things become disorganized, messy ect. I'm not sure what you're asking the community for here? A "pep talk" of not giving up? That's for you to decide. You have several options here and you have to make the decision, you can't ask the community to point you in the right direction. You can A. tough it out and finish nursing school or B. Start over in another nursing program or C. Leave nursing school and find a different career. Both are acceptable options. But I just want to point out, nursing school can be done. I worked full time, graduated the youngest in my class, graduated with top honors and at the top of my graduating class and have already accepted a full time position not even two weeks past graduation. This can be done, but you have to decide if this is what you want.

pmabraham, BSN, RN · May 13, 2015

Good day:

It might be the school / program. If that's the case, then why let it interfere with your dream?

Thank you.

Emergent, RN · May 13, 2015

Another thread started at Allnurses with no paragraphs.

Argh! :facepalm:

wasc1205 · May 13, 2015

Nursing is not for everyone. I would say almost half of students look at nursing as a "caring respectable proffesional career" they want people to say oh he/she is a nurse they must really be a great person. Forget all that ****. The gossip. The backstabbing. The getting,yelled at. Its not about you its about your patient. Peroid. If you can put the patients feelings and comforts ahead of yours all the stress will disappear.

MrChicagoRN, RN · May 13, 2015

As an adult learner, I had great difficulty adjusting to my first semester of nursing school. A very great difficulty adjusting!

Almost dropped out, but made it through with some short therapy, and here I am, almost 35 years later.

maybe it's the school, maybe it's you having difficulty adjusting. You came this far, take a deep breath and figure out what's best for you.

futurepsychrn, ADN · May 13, 2015

If every nursing school was like this one, there would be no nurses. Maybe it's because I come from a family of teachers, but I believe education should be organized and structured. It's easier to learn when the instructors actually know what is going on.

This school has been in operation for many years and one would think that they would have it together by now.

The getting yelled at is not in a clinical situation, that I could understand. However I cannot understand the concept of punishing everyone for what one person does.

I'm way too old to care about people saying "Oh, she's a nurse" and them being impressed. I could quite frankly care less. This is about what I have wanted to do all of my life. I'm also too old to start over at a new school and quite frankly can't afford to, as I've all but quit working to get through school.

And no, I don't expect anyone to tell me what I should do. I was under the impression that perhaps people with more experience than I could offer some insight or maybe a bit of encouragement. So sorry, thought that's what Allnurses was about.

And here are you're paragraphs. Maybe you should teach at my school. You seem to focus on unimportant issues instead of what an actual human being is saying.

futurepsychrn, ADN · May 13, 2015

Well I tried with the paragraphs but apparently there is a technical issue. Par for the course as per my day thus far.

futurepsychrn, ADN · May 13, 2015

Thank you for your encouragement prnabraham :geek:

futurepsychrn, ADN · May 13, 2015

As an adult learner, I had great difficulty adjusting to my first semester of nursing school. A very great difficulty adjusting!
Almost dropped out, but made it through with some short therapy, and here I am, almost 35 years later.
maybe it's the school, maybe it's you having difficulty adjusting. You came this far, take a deep breath and figure out what's best for you.

I've been in this program for almost a year. I agree that the first couple of months and the adjustments were stressful. I even gave the school time, thinking that since it was the beginning of a new academic year there would be kinks to work out. The drama just never seems to end. It makes me wish I was in a huge college where you are just another student. I'm not really liking the small school atmosphere.

NuGuyNurse2b · May 13, 2015

the drama won't end...it never does. Look at some of the posts on here. this is a microcosm of what's out there. You will be working alongside some of these people. In one of my clinical experience, one of my colleagues decided that this particular day, she wasn't going to be wiping butt. She told the instructor she has immunological issues, our patient being C.Diff (we had to share since the census was low) wasn't ideal for her. So we made some modifications. She would play student nurse and admin the meds, I would play the student nurse who wiped the butt. Did I enjoy being relegated to the physical task while someone else got to do the more critical thinking part? No, but at the end of the day, the customer needed both, so I obliged and said nothing.

NightOwlPsyRN · May 13, 2015

I truly feel that every nursing school has its drawbacks...no matter the cohort, there's always areas to improve and something for students to complain about - I being amongst them too. My school was also disorganized in certain areas and faculty turnover was insane...I had 3 different instructors for my Med/Surg II course. That's right, we changed instructors 3 times within 11 weeks. Not to mention some SIM labs were poorly run, some classes I felt we were teaching ourselves, I could go on and on. However, nursing was my dream, and nursing school definitely tested my ability to be resilient. Understand that certain things will be beyond your control, but ultimately, you have to make the best from it and take from it what you can. Nursing in the real world is the same way, there will always be drama. Try not to let it get to you, just get 'er done.