I hate clinicals - Anyone else with me?

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Does anyone else just absolutely hate clinicals? Miserable through out this whole program? I can't wait to be done with all this. It draining me to the core and I'm tired.

Specializes in Emergency Department.
Oh trust me I know! I want to be a CRNA, I have no interest in RN so I think that's why I am so unhappy :g/

If you so desire to be a CRNA but not be an RN, why not become an AA or just take a bit bigger step and become an Anesthesiologist? The reason I ask this is because for CRNA, learning to take care of critically ill patients at the bedside is hugely important. You need to be able to quickly assess patients from head to toe, look at their vital signs, and know what you need to do to try to keep your patient stable/alive. Physicians learn this over a period of several years while in school and in Residency. You learn the very basics of this in nursing school and then you're turned loose to learn on your own and from others on the job. Over a period of a couple years learning how to care for sick patients, you'll develop a sense for what's going on with a patient, sometimes before it makes itself really well known.

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Specializes in Critical Care, Education.

What is it about clinicals that is making you so miserable? Is it patient contact? Inability to feel "in control"? Value judgments/Fear of being criticized? Rather than simply accepting that generalized anxiety, it would be better to engage in some self reflection and break it down. Then you could take appropriate corrective actions.

Just remember, "miserable" is just an emotion that you choose as a reaction to your situation .... no one can force you to feel any emotion.

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