emilysteele

Hi all, I'm just about to finish my college course (in the UK) in health and social care, which I can use to get onto a nursing course. Nursing is something I've wanted to do for a while, but now it's come down to it I worry that I won't make it through the course due to how demanding I've heard it is, so I'm reluctant to go. But at the same time, I feel so lost because of the amount of time I've put into it. For an idea into my background: I'm achieving D*D*D* in my course, however for a while it's felt like my heart isn't in it. I have a car and am within 30 minutes of many unis, and live with my parents who support me financially. Really, I have no reason not to go apart from the worry that it will be too much. In addition to this, I suffer with anxiety so I worry a lot, about things like whether I will get bullied by upper management and doctors, whether patients will be abusive (I know it's a given) but I wonder if you have to be strong emotionally to go into something like this or whether it's something you can develop. Really, I'm just looking for advice. Should I go for it and force myself to do the work, wait a year, become a HCA? Do you find the course is unbearably hard? What would you guys do in my position? Emily