Nursing Student Burn out

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Specializes in Ambulatory Care.

I have 7 more months till I graduate. I have always done well in my classes. When I was accepted into school I was so excited and eager to learn! Now I just want to be done. I just want it to be over. No more exams. No more reading. I love nursing but I am over my classes. I need help. How do I make it through the last part of my nursing program?! I'm going stir crazy! Any one else feel the same way?

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Specializes in Recovery Room.

Yes, and I am only in my second semester with about 9 months left til graduation.

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Specializes in Ambulatory Care.

I'm not the only one! I swear there are some people in my class that actually want it to last longer! I don't understand! Good luck! I'm finishing my 3rd semester now.

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I have 7 months to go and I am not burn out yet. I am enjoying this semester because I love cardiac and renal. I am starting to see the light under the tunnel, so I tell myself everyday "I am almost there", just hand in there.

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Specializes in Ambulatory Care.

Thanks! Thats great! I love cardiac and renal. Perhaps its just my semester. Were doing OB/Peds I just may not be as interested in it as i thought I would be. (-: Thanks again!

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Specializes in LTC, Med/Surg, Peds, ICU, Tele.

Nursing school is like pregnancy. You wait and wait for it to be over, then the real work begins!

Good luck!

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Specializes in Ambulatory Care.

Thats funny. Thanks!

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Specializes in Correctional and MRDD.

I feel exactly the same way you do. I started a 15 months LPN program on April 2007, I finished on July 2008. I started transition to ADN two weeks after my graduation from LPN. I 've been in an intensinve program for 2 years now and I am burned out. I am working as an LPN while I finish my RN, that does not help either considering I started nursing school when my kids were very young. (2 months old and 14 months old). I just want to finish, get a PRN job at a nice hospital and spend time with my kids. I have 8 more months to go and I can't wait to get this over with. I was actually OK during the LPN program, I gradualted with high honors, this time around, I don't believe I will that lucky. When I come home I just want to play with the kids, lay in bed and watch TV, last thing on my mind is do homework.

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Specializes in Psychiatry & Geriatrics.

Looks like we're all feeling the same way. I have only 8 weeks left until graduation, yet instead of feeling excited, I am feeling so overwhelmed, distracted, etc. and it's starting to negatively affect my classwork. As I look back over the past few semesters, I now realize I should have used my down time more wisely to destress. So, my advise to all of you who have a little longer to go........Take advantage of any opportunity to have a little fun, destress, CHILL!, then you won't feel so smothered by school work! Good Luck to all of you!

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Just don't think the time you have left in the program, just live it week by week and try to be positive. It can be overwhelming, that's what I do and I have less than six months to finish the RN program. You will see the light at the end of the tunnel pretty soon.:D

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One year until graduation, and, frankly, if it were any longer and I didn't get summers off, I'd be in the mental hospital with some of my patients before the end of this semester.

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