I need some guidence....

[irwin]

Hello all nurses and students . I'm new here, I am 19 and just got accepeted into a local nursing school, class size of 40 people at most. I am taking all of my regular classes at the local CC so I can strictly focus on clinicals once there. I have purchased a pda n a stethoscope for my usage. But there is a problem...Ifeel like all I do is study and lift, it's like I never go out any more because I'm studyin AP and Chem all weekend while doing psych developement papers and working at McDonald's part time. I think that I am doing a great thing, I hope to be in the ER or circ/scrub in the o.r. I think that I am missing out on life so much, is nursing school really this hard or am I making it that much harder on myself by striving for perfection? All my friends think that I am crazy, my one friend even dropped anat and wants to be a nurse but thinks that anat isn't important, he's crazy. I guess I just want some people to talk to inbetween studyin...so hello all and please help me if needed.

[Daytonite, BSN, RN]

No, you are not crazy. This is the kind of committment it takes to be good at any profession. Working with people's lives in your hands is serious business. It's probably best that your friend dropped out of anatomy. It sounds like he is not ready to let go of his childhood yet. The difference between childhood and adulthood is taking on responsbility. Try to find an hour or two each day to do some physical activity. You will meet some fellow nursing students that you will be able to pal around with. Take a PE class. Give it some time. You will meet more like minded people at college and will find more and more that you will be leaving your high school friends behind.

[leslie :-D]

welcome aboard irwin!

yes, nursing school is difficult and requires 100% commitment. there is no easy way around it. of course you can take only 1 course at a time which would take forever before you graduated. but if you truly want to commit to being a nurse, then you can virtually plan on kissing your social life away. compound your job with school makes it that much more challenging. i think the next few years would be well spent on becoming a nurse; once you graduate, you will look back and revel in the time you spent and will know that everything was well worth it. once you start frequenting these boards more often, you'll realize and appreciate all the support and wealth of information to be found here. i would take the time to get to read all of these forums, even if skimming over. you'll become addicted like so many of us are.:biggringi take care and don't be a stranger.

leslie

[TrishAnne]

Hi!!

You have allready been excepted into the nursing program, don't be so hard on yourself, just get through it and pass, it doesn't have to be all A's. I was a LVN for 18 years and got my RN in 2004, I felt I had to have "great" grades, but you just have to have passing grades. Good luck you can do this, and the benefits are well worth it. I am now doing travel nursing and having fun with it.