What have been your biggest sacrifice since starting nursing school ? Has it been work, sleep, money, relationships, or etc. ?
Well for me my biggest sacrifice is my job. Due to stress of working a non-flexible job and scheduling conflicts with clinical I'll will be leaving my great paying job steady job in May, in order to complete my nursing program in July of this year. So for 3 months I'll be living off 9 bucks in hour doing home health care as CNA and my student loans. Can I make it ??? I have no choice. I'm scared yet happy . When I tell my non-nursing student friends they think I'm crazy. They say " What ! let me get this straight... You're quitting your job in the midst of a recession just to finish nursing school " I reply " Yes I am, its a no brainer... Continue to work and stress my self out while going to school, or make a sacrifice that'll enable me to work less and have more flexible hours and become and nurse in 4 months."
These are just the sacrifices I have to make. Since the very first day of NS I wanted to quit working. However, I hung in the fight and kept going. Now, I know its time to make school not work a prioity. So now I need to formulate a budge for my next 2-3 pays and go from there. :zzzzz
Sigh- It'll all be worthed. May be busted broke now, but not forever !
Finally, people that understand how I feel! I was sooo happy to see this thread, I've been having a really bad week. Funny I was just sitting in class an hour ago thinking about the sacrifices I have made for Nursing School. Countless time with my three daughters:crying2:. I try to make it up too them every chance I get:clown:. But they are also my motivation:heartbeat. My husband is sticking it out so far, but we have had many a disagreement over school:icon_hug:. I haven't left my job yet , but I know the time is coming soon. Its hard enough now trying to balance, school, family and work:bugeyes:.
I miss SLEEP!!! I stay up every night until atleast 2 am. This is me around 2am trying to find my bed lol.
I needed to vent alittle:angryfire! I know the sacrifices that we make now are going to be well worth it:nurse:.
My stable job of 14 years (took a buyout to attend nursing school)
My love life (boyfriend cheated during first semester of nursing school)
My social life (I dont go "out" much, not even on "dates")
My family life (I only see my son 3 times a week, and don't see my moma for weeks at a time due to studying, clinicals, and now Capstone)
But you know what? I'll do it all over again in a heartbeat. I will graduate on May 16, 2009 with my BSN and I'm the first one in my ENTIRE family to graduate from college. That's an accomplishment within itself.
I can say when I finally pass boards, it would all be worth it.
let's see here. i work 11p-7a so i can go to school, countless hours of lost sleep, i feel like a flippin' vampire. i only get 4-5 hours a day with my hubby , who i love so very much; and bless his heart for understanding. missing my parents who are also super supportive as well, my ma is actucally doing her prereqs. for an rn program. they live a little over an hour away, but who has time to drive out. what is left of my back, i am 23 and have severe osteoarthritis throughout my entire spine and a slipped disc in my neck, not work related. hmmm what else a social life that's a laugh. buuuuuuuuuut as well all say it will be worth it, it will be worth it, it will be worth it...wow it felt good to rant, thanx to the op. :scrm:
This will be my third summer of doing summer school, which when I first started the Nursing program back in the fall, didnt think I was going to have to do. Well I dont have to do it, but will be extremely beneficial!!
Since I go to school out of state my poor car has alot of miles on it and requires more money to keep maintenence up to par.
My sleep, I hate doing morning clinicals. Seeing as a live about an 40-50 mins away from the hospital I do clinicals I have to get up at 0430, to be ready by 0530 to be the site by 0630. Plus living on campus and living in the athlete apartments I dont get adequete sleep time.
I am more broke this past year then I ever have been before. And if I ger a job it will be hard to juggle my schedule for adequete study and prep time. So I am choosing to be broke and do well vs working and not being broke but not do well.
I dont get to do too many events on campus or with friends. Since I have to study alot of the time, I am low energy some of the time and dont feel to participate sometimes, lol.
Pro's:
Well I am maintaining a healthy lifestyle, I believe trying maintain my spiritual life (even though I slack on reading my Bible, Im horrible) I also laugh alot and vent my feelings to alot of people this allow mental and emotional relief for me, as well as my physical health, I buy my own food even though I have a school meal plan. Even though to some this may seem like a waste of money, having healthy quality food is a top priority for me. I also exercise regularly, well except for today and possibly tomorrow, low energy lol
I have gained a great appreciation for health and the family and friends I am blessed to have. I do clinicals at an adult day care and I see people my grandparents age sick and desitute, thankfully my grandparents are very much spry, alert, and happy, in fact their healtheir then people half their age lol
My personal and professional growth is amazing, even though I still have a ways to go I am finally learning to enjoy who I am and happy to just be. Didnt have that before I entered the program.
I also have no regrets as to choosing to pursue a nursing degree. I when I started college I started off in nursing instead of journalism and then switching over, but its only an extra two years in my life.
I am know their are alot more pro's and cons, but those are the major ones that stick out in my mind at this time....
i have just finished nursingschool myself, that wasn't easy at all me and my freinds say , if we would know before it would be so stressfull we woould'nt do this, thanx god it's over, now i can start living normall life, i can sleep more, talk to my freinds, husbent, family ect...
The hadrdest part for me was, to explain to my family and freinds why i can't talk to them or go to places and enjoy parties... All i did was what i had to do and study study study all day and night....
As a mother to 4 children and a wife it was alot of strees. And what what gave me strenth was seeing my goal in front of me all the time.
well, I guess I'm heading in the right direction, because after reading 6 pages and every single post on this thread, I am still excited to start in September (2009) My biggest decision is if I go to the more expensive (but much closer school) or the comm college further away but with some money for living left over.... Right now I'm enrolled close to home and ready to go, but if I get accepted again at the comm college, I could change my mind I suppose.
My biggest sacrifice has been money i get bi weekly cheques that are just not enough i was forced to move back home to live with my parents and i quit my job so now i go to school and come home i have no social life but im so happy olny 3 more months and i will be graduated, i understand where you are coming from but i think i may be poor and haveno social life but all my blood sweat and tears will be all worth it when i walk across the stage i can sayi did it and really how many other people can say they could put them selves through what we go through and come out alive and even stronger than when entering the program and yourright we wont be poor forever
I am a pre-nursing student and I have to applaud you guys for working so hard. I'm sorry for the tough sacrifices you have made, but that just shows what amazing nurses you will be.
So many sacrifices have been made, but not only by me, but by my family as well. I think I've lost sleep, precious time with my kids and husband. I've been lucky though. My husband has been willing to work extra hours and has even changed his hours to accommodate my clinical hours. He has even taken our kids out of the house the entire day so that I could study. My kids know why I am in school and why I can't always spend as much time with them. I'm very close to being done with school and they are very excited. We all know we can't get back the lost time, but there will be time to make up special moments once the craziness is over. And you will know exactly what's more important to you.
:yeah:Good luck to the students that are just trying to get through the semester. All you can do is take it one day at a time. Don't focus on the end just yet. Just focus on what is in front of you and you can get through it.
these types of forums are truly the best. they show how human we all are--your not alone here. best of all we are all able to support eachother in ways people on the outside looking in, can not. one day when i have a little more time, i'd love to share the many sacrifices i and my family made-- all of which were well worth it.
:yeah:kudos to everyone for just doing whatever you've got to, to take care of business!
after i red what you wrote i feel that i should react to things that you wrote and tel you something about myself that know one knows.
when i desided to go to nursing school that was bec i felt i was messed up in life' after 11 years of marrige with 4 children i wasn't happy with my husbent and wanted to get a divorse, my children where so sad and started going down in school, that's when i decided to do something else instead to go to nursing school what i always wanted... i felt it's the only chance i have to keep my family together and stay normal,,, this way i won't be home most of the time and won't see mt husbent much and won't care about my life the way it was...
the first year was much like that no time for my husbent , no time for complaining , and no time for thinking about my marrige. only sssccchhhhoooolllll. now i have just graduated and looking back seems so wright. eventhough my kids safered alot i had no time for them- but their parents are together, my husbent changed so much after a while he started doing things at home, cooking taking care of the children, buying food for the house, helping me as much as he could showing me that he care's that he love's me and want's to be home with me with hwo i am..
so i wish you the same. i'm sure it's a good step for you that will do good for you and your children.
good luck!!!!!! and thanx god i did this instead of getting divorse... school was hard but rasing alone 4 kids would be even harder !
i'm totally a diffrent person now more majure more happy and more sure of my self.
:yeah:Good luck to the students that are just trying to get through the semester. All you can do is take it one day at a time. Don't focus on the end just yet. Just focus on what is in front of you and you can get through it.
mrs.dalibra
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Hello All,
Finally, people that understand how I feel! I was sooo happy to see this thread, I've been having a really bad week. Funny I was just sitting in class an hour ago thinking about the sacrifices I have made for Nursing School. Countless time with my three daughters:crying2:. I try to make it up too them every chance I get:clown:. But they are also my motivation:heartbeat. My husband is sticking it out so far, but we have had many a disagreement over school:icon_hug:. I haven't left my job yet , but I know the time is coming soon. Its hard enough now trying to balance, school, family and work:bugeyes:.
I miss SLEEP!!! I stay up every night until atleast 2 am. This is me around 2am trying to find my bed lol.
I needed to vent alittle:angryfire! I know the sacrifices that we make now are going to be well worth it:nurse:.