I’m so over Nursing School

Horseshoe, BSN, RN · Nov 5, 2019

It might be normal, but it doesn't change the fact that instructors are looking for you to be peaking right about now. They want you to be able to put it all together...all the little bits and pieces you have been learning need to be assimilated into a larger understanding of nursing and what that requires from you.

In other words, you need to study and put out 100% effort whether you feel "motivated" or whether you don't. Just like you shower, brush your teeth, pay your taxes, go to work, etc., when you don't feel like it. You just do it anyway.

Good luck...you're almost done.

Caprica6 · Nov 6, 2019

You may want to change your username if that is your real name...

caliotter3 · Nov 6, 2019

Be careful. Don't let any negativity show or start making mistakes that will add up, especially in clinical. Some schools have instructors whose purpose in life is to make cuts at the end of the program. You don't want to work yourself into that unenviable position.

Megarline, CNA · Nov 6, 2019

Keep up the good work. You're experiencing a burnt out.

Just do it even if you don't like it.

gere7404, BSN, RN · Nov 6, 2019

Not sure of the pacing of your program, but the middle of the second year and beginning of my third year was difficult to stay motivated in my BSN program -- we had very little clinical time, most of the program was filled with lectures and research projects.

Fortunately, getting to practice nursing hands on for the last two quarters of clinical reminded me why I pursued the profession.

bitter_betsy, BSN · Nov 7, 2019

It isn't just you. Most of my cohort - including me - is over it also. It doesn't rightly matter if we are "over it" or not - we aren't done yet. No point in quitting now. For us - we have a 16 month program. The most we have gotten off so far is 11 days between semesters. We will get almost 3 weeks off in December - our first real break. We graduate in May. I haven't slept more than 5 hours a night for at least 3 weeks now. We are nearing the end of the semester and EVERYTHING is due. I'm either in my car (listening to a recorded lecture or the textbook or something regarding nursing school), the shower, a class room, a clinical, in bed or usually my butt is in my chair at home studying.

I don't have advice, but I am gonna go take a nap.

guest478081 · Nov 8, 2019

It’s ok once your done it will feel better. Never experienced anything as annoying and silly as undergraduate nursing education. Somehow they make it time consuming without adding in desirable difficulty.

AnnieNP, MSN, NP · Nov 23, 2019

If that is your real name I would change it, any of us could be your instructor!

the_Baconist · Feb 10, 2020

1. Don't use your real name on this forum.

2. School is tough. Clinicals are busy; however, spend time for self-care, meditate, and reflect on your journey, good/ bad days, people that you met, patients that you helped care for. And don't forget to hydrate.

TheDudeWithTheBigDog, ADN, RN · Feb 11, 2020

On 11/5/2019 at 9:19 PM, caliotter3 said:
Be careful. Don't let any negativity show or start making mistakes that will add up, especially in clinical. Some schools have instructors whose purpose in life is to make cuts at the end of the program. You don't want to work yourself into that unenviable position.

From what I've read on these forums, it seems like these are the same schools that clinical from your first semester to your last is nothing more than being a glorified CNA rather than learning to apply any nursing knowledge beyond knowing why you need to remember to turn that patient and get him up into a chair later. The best thing states could start doing is scrapping clinicals, and requiring a preceptorship, that the student sets up and just does that every semester, working with an RN as a student learning to be an RN and not a CNA.