Now that your in.....

NICU_nurse2b · Apr 28, 2006

Hi, I just started to feel the same way too. I start nursing school on August 14 and have a lot of things on my mind.
1. I'm putting my son in day care for the 1st time (he's 22 months old) and am nervous about how he will adjust. Thank God that his great-auntie has a daycare and is only charging me 70 bucks a week.
2. I decided that I am going to quit my job in July so that I will be able to focus on my studies, so I am leaving all the financial responsibility on my boyfriend. So if he loses his job, we are screwed!!
3. I wondering if I will be a good student in Nursing school, I am in the C range for Anatomy and Physiology and am wondering that if I can't get an A in that than what kind of grades would I recieve in nursing school.
4. Also I'm worried about my schedule being so unpredictable. I am the type of person that likes to have everything planned out. Something so small like having to fight my son to put his jacket on can throw my timing off.(I need to work on that since I'm a last minute person.)
5. I'm also not so good with getting up early!!
So over the summer I plan on working on getting up early, saving money, and getting my son adjusted with daycare.

I so understand all your points!! I very much like my schedule and if it gets off track I have major anxiety! I will need to work on that. I am SO NOT a morning person! Good Luck to you and all of us during this crazy journey we are about to undertake! :monkeydance: (my daughter wanted me to click the monkeydance!)

NICU_nurse2b · Apr 28, 2006

The first thing I learned in nursing school is that you need to have confidence in yourself! You were chosen because you were on of the best applicants. You will have test questions that you will have no earthly clue where they pulled the material from but by the end, you will be really good at taking tests. I did very well in nursing school and graduate in 14 days! You can all do it! I never found the material to be hard and after all, this is something you want to do, not some pre-req that you could care less about. Cherish every moment and take it a semester at a time. It will fly by and you will graduate before you know it!
Best of luck to you all!
Avery
Pinning May 12th
Graduation May 13
Cancun May 15th
2 Finals to go! :mortarboard:

:balloons: Congratulations on graduation and Good Luck on your last 2 finals!!:balloons:

avery · Apr 28, 2006

Thanks NICU Nurse 2 Be! You will do well! =o)

Keep your head up!

Avery

NICU_nurse2b · Apr 28, 2006

Fear is not of God so we must push past this thing and overcome it.... All things are possible with Jesus Christ. The Lord didn't say some things but ALL. There are many fellow believers on this site and we can overcome this fear and pursue the thing that the Lord has placed on our hearts. God bless each and everyone of you....and hold fast to the promises of God.

Thanks for these incouraging words! This will give you some peace andiesisle.com/He-Will-Be.html

I am glad to know I am not the only one going through these rollercoaster of emotions! It really helps to talk to others that truely understands. My husband listens but I don't think he really gets it.

NICU_nurse2b · Apr 28, 2006

Thanks NICU Nurse 2 Be! You will do well! =o)
Keep your head up!
Avery

Thanks and Have Fun in Cancun!!! That sounds like a great end to nursing school and a great beginning to your career!

HHW2006 · Apr 28, 2006

I am graduating in 13 DAYS!!!!!:yelclap: I felt the same way when I was preparing to start school. You will be fine - just keep up with your reading, etc.. don't ever let yourself get behind. And as someone else said - BREATHE!! Best of luck to you!

atrice, BSN, RN · Apr 29, 2006

Fear is not of God so we must push past this thing and overcome it.... All things are possible with Jesus Christ. The Lord didn't say some things but ALL. There are many fellow believers on this site and we can overcome this fear and pursue the thing that the Lord has placed on our hearts. God bless each and everyone of you....and hold fast to the promises of God.

Thanks for these incouraging words! This will give you some peace andiesisle.com/He-Will-Be.html

I am glad to know I am not the only one going through these rollercoaster of emotions! It really helps to talk to others that truely understands. My husband listens but I don't think he really gets it.

Thank you so much for that encouraging website!!!

TRINI_RN · Apr 29, 2006

I am still excited about starting.....but I'm scared too. I worry that I won't catch on to things fast enough, and I worry that I'll crack under the pressure. Most of all (and this has nothing to do with nursing), I worry that I'll eat myself into a size 20!! I am an emotional eater (when I'm stressed, when I'm happy, even when I'm bored), I am really scared of what nursing school will do to my health. I'm working on getting healthy now before school starts, and keeping it up during the program:uhoh3:

mad9 · Apr 29, 2006

Hi,

I can relate to every single one of your posts. I am starting nursing school in Sept/06. The advice I get is to enjoy the time before nursing school starts but I can't. I have prep work to do such as familiarizing myself with as much of the course material as possible, memorize whatever I need to, dosage calculations to learn, A & P, etc.

They tell me that I'll have no problems with the courses and that I'll go through it all with flying colours. No pressure there huh?

That freaks me out even more when I hear that. How do they know? When I don't even know?

The excitement of receiving my acceptance letter vanished soon after, dissolving into a cloud of anxiety and what if's.

The more I read here at Allnurses, the more I realize that I have so much to learn.

Don't missunderstand me, I do have confidence in my abilities, I realize that I was accpeted because they believe that I am able to do it.

I am not very comfortable with the unknown factor. I am also a perfectionist and I have been known to obsess over details. I know I'll be just a mess before and after any exam. :barf02:

Actully a nurse recently said to me that having some OCD tendancies is a good thing if you are a nurse.

What to do you think about this?

Best wishes for success to everyone who will start nursing school. :nurse:

RN-oneday · Apr 29, 2006

I have been going through the same thing....My problem is that I still have until January 2007 to wait....So 8 more months of waiting/worrying....I am going to be gray before classes start...

I am an overachiever and a control freak....I know this is going to be a big problem in nursing school....I am afraid I am going to make a mistake and kicked out of clinicals or just not get it....Basically I am afraid of everything that could go wrong...

But I know I have to do this for myself and my kids....Giving up is not an option for them so I have to lead by example....Well off to more worrying and reading:smackingf

RN-oneday · Apr 29, 2006

Sorry

marilynmom, LPN, NP · Apr 30, 2006

I guess I am pretty confident in myself. I think I will do fine in nursing school and though I am happy to have the summer off to relax, I am looking forward to starting school and not very nervous about it. I figure if others can do it I can too!

I also have two little girls and I know what I am doing is going to benefit my whole family....especially them. So I don't let myself feel guilty about it, after all it's only 2 years out of our entire lives, and we can all get through this. My kids have always known me to be in school full time so I don't think it's going to be too big of a shock to them. They stay with my mom when I am in school so that helps too since they love their grandma and would spend all day over there if they could....lol We also homeschool and my husband is also a full time student and works full time; he might go part time at school if need be though. We all thrive in stressful and chaos though!

I think we all will do GREAT!!!