Nursing school is killing me

[MaryFutureRN]

Hello, I only have two more years left until my BSN diploma.

It's just...ugh...nursing school is distressing me. All of a sudden, I felt like I wanted to be alone all the time and I've lost energy just to do everything. My self-esteem is extremely low, and clinical instructors being too harsh on me just give extra blows on the littlest self-confidence I could have. I have a clinical instructor right now who I feel is too harsh on me but kinder to my colleagues. I don't know what's up with her, and every encounter with her I palpitate and feel terrible.

All of a sudden I am irritated of people around me and how annoying they can be. And I'm losing my patience.

I don't know. I'm currently on the dean's list for last semester, which I don't really like because professors tend to put extra pressure on us and you know that extra blow when you fail people and teachers.

I don't feel like I can carry on with any task. I feel like a terrible nurse, student, person overall.

How do I deal with this?

[MaryFutureRN]

Hi everyone, I know this response is sooo late but I really thank you for helping me out. Reading all your responses comforted me and helped me alot. I feel the love and concern.

The semester has just ended and I am so glad my grades are still consistently good and my instructors have not failed me or anything. I hope to be able to maintain this. I was stressed and all, but I'm really glad I was able to surpass allthose troubles. There's more for me out there, more challenges, so I'm bracing up with all your lovely help.

I will graduate and I'll be an awesome nurse someday.

Thanks a lot!!!!!!

[Hollyhocks720, MSN, NP]

I respectfully beg to differ...

Although nursing school entails plenty of busy-work, it is not necessarily the hardest college major by a long shot. I just become mildly irritated when nursing is placed on an undeserved pedestal for its questionable level of difficulty.

If masses of people with very average intelligence levels can become nurses, this is testament to the reality that nursing is not one of the hardest majors ever.

the difficulty is in the harshness of instructor, speed, volume of material, and lack of instruction. Otherwise it would not be difficult.