Ok Class of 2017, Where are you??

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Hello my fellow nursing students. I will be starting my nursing classes on July 6. That's only 12 days from now! :nailbiting: I'm both excited and nervous. We had our first orientation yesterday, well it was more like a meet and greet. I have been on YouTube all day looking at videos on nursing school supplies. So I will be starting my school shopping this week. When did you get your school supply list? I was hoping to get mine at orientation, but nope no list! I hope that we can keep each other encouraged through the process. Congratulations to everyone who got accepted into the program.

I have finals this week. Already ready for this week to be over with, but only 2 more days!

Life Span was only 6 weeks and got an A, but it was really easy.

I just took my Med Surg 2 final today and ended up with an A for the semester.

Tomorrow is my Patho final, and then Wednesday is my Mental Health nursing final. Then I'm renewing my CPR on Thursday.

I'll have 3 weeks off starting next week. Fall semester starts August 22. I can't believe how fast it's all going! I'll have my third Med Surg class, OB/Peds, Microbiology, and Art Appreciation which I'm not looking forward to, but I didn't have much of an option as far as to which elective I could take. I also signed up to be a mentor for incoming students into the program. I'm really looking forward to that.

Then next Spring will be critical care and ethics which will be about 12 weeks. The last 3 will be our practicum / preceptorship.

So after this semester, two semesters left and hopefully graduating next May!

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Specializes in Mental Health, Maternity & Well-Woman Care.

Just stopping in to say "HI!", and I hope everyone is still chugging along.

We graduate next year, folks!! :smokin:

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Still alive, but barely. My baby is 9 months and doing peds and medsurg which is really helpful but hard. I also got a VALOR internship working as a circulator in the OR and it's awesome. I feel as students we don't get enough exposure to the OR and it's a shame because I knew that's what I wanted to do after being there the first few days. All that's left is 2 semesters and NCLEX then I can press the play button on life again.

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How is everyone doing and holding up?

I'm doing well still, but this semester has, so far, left me feeling discouraged, defeated, and overwhelmed. I'm taking med surg (III) and microbiology (hybrid - online and in person). I just finished my 8 weeks of OB and am starting my 8 weeks of Peds. This week I have one more course starting (online only). This new class will put me at 16 credit hours, and I already feel like I'm drowning without it.

This semester I've felt so stupid. I feel like I know nothing, and I feel like I'm not holding things together as well I had before. I don't know if it's just been the extra things outside of school that has put me there or not. I think it is. I have weekly appointments (counseling trying to recover from an eating disorder), my kids both had well visits (with 1 more well visit coming up and an ENT follow up for tubes that were placed this last summer). Plus staying on top of bills, money in general, my son teething and so is up many times a night most nights, my daughter just started gymnastics and I've been going with her (she's in a class where I'm with her and help her), dealing with health insurance and what not, and then cell phone issues. I got the galaxy note 7 at the end of August, which was recalled because there were reports of them catching fire / exploding. The stress of that and dealing with the phone company was a lot. I had finally got a replacement note 7 a few weeks into September only to find out about a week ago or so that those were catching fire / exploding as well, so then had to get that one replaced with another phone.

We're trying to get my son transitioned from the bottle to the sippy. We're trying to get our 3 year old potty trained who is completely resisting, so we have absolutely no idea what to do or what we're doing. My husband works full time and does pretty much all of the cleaning and takes on more than his fair share of responsibility with the kids. I still spend time with them and do what I can, but there are days/weeks where it's very little as to what I'm able to do to help him.

I've been sick twice in the last month. I'm just getting over the same thing for the second time right now (which I think has a lot to do with stress and lack of sleep). Plus I have to get my flu shot and have it approved by the end of the month, and have no idea if I should just go get it even with still being a little sick as I'm not sure if I'll be 100% by the due date.

I feel like I'm letting people down left and right. I feel like I can't even take a break to breathe as I feel like I'm going to screw up and then let people down if I already haven't.

If I can just keep pushing through, I have 8 weeks left of this semester followed by 3 weeks off. Spring semester is my last semester. It'll be a 12 week semester where I'll have, I believe, a medical ethics class and an 8 credit hour critical care class. We end with finals at or the week following the 12 weeks of class. Then we'll do a 3 week preceptorship, and then (hopefully!) graduate May 4.

I'm trying to see the light at the end of the tunnel for this semester in order to try and get me through. One of my instructors had to give me a pep talk a couple of weeks ago.

I'm just scared I won't be able to get through this. I'm scared that if I feel this way now, I'll never make it as an RN.

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Just checking in to see how everyone is doing. We're almost done!

I have about 6-7 weeks left until finals and then have 3 weeks of practicum. Then, hopefully, I'll be graduating at the beginning of May.

How is everyone else and what's your anticipated graduation date?

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Specializes in CTICU.

May 25 is our grad date! We started psych last week í ½í¸°

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Specializes in Mental Health, Maternity & Well-Woman Care.

Early May here, yay!

You are all amazing and we are all near the finish line!:laugh:

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Specializes in Med/Surg and Travel Nursing.

WWWOOOOOHHHHOOOOOO Can you believe it is finally HERE????!!!!!!! \0/

11 days of lecture, 10 days of clinical, and 1 final----MAY 3rd!!!!!

What a push it is now at the end....we also have a HESI we have to take, a paper to write, and two other exams before the final.

I've also been squeezing in job shadow time on the L&D floor of the hospital an hour away from me, since my school didn't offer

an OB rotation and that's my JAM. Last summer I took the NRP, and on January break I did the AWHONN Intro to EFM certification. Whew!!!

Anyone else applying for jobs in another state? We have decided to move right after I graduate, so I can gain the maximum experience for a few years before hitting the road as a travel nurse.

WE'RE ALMOST THERE!!!!! :-D

~MLDJ1970

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January break I did the AWHONN Intro to EFM certification.

How was that? I've been seriously considering doing that, hoping it'll up my chances to get into L&D. Things have been too crazy to do it just yet, but I'm hoping to here soon.

It's honestly really hard to believe it's almost over. I had my last final last Thursday. My practicum started Sunday and my next day is tomorrow. My last day is the 29th. The first few days in May I have mandatory ATI review.

I really never imagined myself a college graduate, and certainly not from nursing school. It really has been rough, but I also have loved the experience and am grateful that I had the opportunity to do so. I got in by the skin of my teeth and am thankful that the school took a chance on me.

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Specializes in Post Acute, Med/Surg, ED, Nurse Manager.

I am graduating this June from Peninsula College with my Rn, and I was accepted into George Washington University RN-MSN Adult-Gerontology Nurse Practitioner program. WOOHOO! I am soo excited....and scared. Excited and scared basically sums it up!

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Specializes in Med/Surg and Travel Nursing.

The EFM course was basically reviewing what we covered when we went over maternity and had the SIM lab. It didn't take as long as I thought it would.....I had really built it up in my mind as a HUGE time commitment but it wasn't. I can't wait to actually put it in practice! 2 clinical days, 3 lectures, 1 final left!!!!!! :-D

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I graduate next Thursday!!! I honestly can't wrap my head around it. I have one more practicum shift to complete and then 3 ATI NCLEX review days next week. Then I'm done.

I've submitted my application to my state's BON and registered with Pearson Vue. So I just have to get my background check done (tomorrow), and then wait for the school to send my completion letter and then wait for my ATT. It feels surreal.

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