Only week 4 of Nursing 1 and I'm already stressing

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I'm beginning my 4th week of Nursing I and I'm already feeling stressed like I can't possibly remember everything...I'm hoping that when I begin the actual clinical portion (week 6) and have some real hands on, I'll feel a little better about things - a little more confident.

I'm already beginning to question whether or not I can manage this!

Has anyone else felt this way? Any suggestions?

Do not stress! you have made it this far and thats a great reward! There is a long way to go, I am sure once your first semester is over you will be more accustomed to nursing school and balancing everything, good luck!

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I've gotten some good advice (read postings above)....trying to take it one day at a time....I can certainly empathize with you - it's a tough program...One day at a time - that has to be my new motto - you should adopt it also.

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I totally understand!!!! We all do! I'm in week 5 and it's been so crazy! I just took my 1st test yesterday, I think I did ok but it's so stressful. When everyone here warned it was going to be a wild ride, they weren't lying, lol! Good luck!!!

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I started stressing about week 3 or 4... then I calmed down and realized how many people have preceded me and managed to do just fine and therefore figured that I could do it, too. I just tried to relax and take each week one at a time. Some weeks were worse than others but I just kept the goal in mind and applied myself diligently.

I graduated at the end of the summer and passed the NCLEX two weeks ago.

It does end, eventually.

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this sounds awful at first. but once you think about it it's true....

"if it's easy, you aren't doing it right!!"

i just started my 5th week. yeah, it's difficult, but just keep thinking "if you couldn't do it then you would not have gotten into the program!!"

another piece of advice, just try to surround yourself with only POSITIVE & supportive people. you really don't need the negativity in your life right now.

keep smiling! :) good luck & best wishes.

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I feel the same way. I really want to be a nurse but I am super stressed at week 4. It's mainly due to the clinical portion. Excuse my french, but the word I would use to discribe clinical is "Cluster ****"... because it is an absolute disorganized mess. There are 20 instructors and all of them have certain ways of doing things and they will flunk you on a check off if you are not aware of what they want. I understand it helps us learn more but it doesn't seem fair. Also, they tell us to be prepared but they don't tell us everything we need. For our AM care today, they mentioned to bring in shorts, tank tops, soap, ect but never mentioned that we needed check lists, why? Oh, here is my favorite, they briefly and very vaugely mentioned lifting and body mechanics in lab lecture yesterday and expected us to know it TODAY with absolutely NO demonstrations!!! How can I be held accountable to know that just from hearing it explained one time, and not evenly clearly at that? I mean, we were not even showed a video on lifting pateints but they DID show a detailed video about how to place a man's member in a urinal (yeah, I understand the mechanics of that, member goes IN the urinal and NOT on the outside of it, lol). Yet again, I went to my required APA workshop today and the teacher told us we needed the powerpoint slide printed out but gues what?... no one told us but we were somehow expected to know. So she told us we had five minutes to find a printer and get it off blackboard like we were in trouble. How can I be held accountable for this crap? It's not like I showed up to clinical inproperly dressed or I checked someones BP at the femoral artery... these are things I was never informed of so how can I know about them. Ugg, I like the program but it would make it much easier if they were more organized and universal in their structure. it feels good to rant.

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this sounds awful at first. but once you think about it it's true....

"if it's easy, you aren't doing it right!!"

i just started my 5th week. yeah, it's difficult, but just keep thinking "if you couldn't do it then you would not have gotten into the program!!"

another piece of advice, just try to surround yourself with only POSITIVE & supportive people. you really don't need the negativity in your life right now.

keep smiling! :) good luck & best wishes.

I second that. Dispite my rant, I have a great study group and I think the best thing is to just keep your head down, focus on your goal and know you can make it!

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I will tell you now. I've failed a class because I listened to everyone say it was so hard. When I retook the class I pushed away everyone's negativity about the class and passed it well. Was it hard the first time? Yes, because I was thinking about what everyone said about the class. Was it hard the second time? Yes, but not as hard as the first. I applied my self and pushed everything to the side and focused on learning the material and how I could apply it in clinicals. You can do it and don't let anyone else tell you other wise! If others can do it, why can't you? It is possible.

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This is my 6th week and I have a test on Pharmacology and 4 other subjects!!! I seriously feel like I can't remember everything!! On top of that my husbands thinks that I still have to do everything around the house! No help from him! Totally STRESSED OUT!!! U r definitley not alone!!!!

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I'm an upcoming nursing student this Jan. I'm very excited about the school but also very nervous. I know nursing school will be very hard and I just hope that I can make it through.

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