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Thanks for the reply! It hasn't really gotten much better. Especially when I have a few days off and then have to go back, I get so upset and just cry. I have accepted a position on a different unit at a different hospital in hopes that this will change how I feel. But I'm convinced that nursing wasn't the right path for me

Thanks for everyone's comments, advice, and help! Just wanted to come on here with an update. I started having really bad anxiety before work, bad enough that I decided to get on a low dose of meds in hopes of that helping (anxiety runs in the family as well, so it was probably only a matter of time í ½í¸œ). I guess I had too high of hopes. I still get bad anxiety with work, still cry before each shift (it is a bit better though), and I still HATE being a nurse. I just want to quit so badly. I'm going to stick it out a year and see if I can find something better. It just sucks to think that I'd be happier not being a nurse, but I'll also be paying student loans for years on a degree I won't use. I have no clue what to do.

I'm very interested in school nursing. I feel like mentally that would be a better option for me. I'm about to hit my 6 month mark, but I don't feel like I have enough experience to try and switch to something so different than what I'm doing. But this job has been very mentally draining on me! I want to love it, but I'm really struggling to

You took the words right out of my mouth. This is exactly how I feel, only this is my first nursing job. I can't imagine doing this much longer. I cry before work and think about just not showing up at all I feel so miserable sometimes

Hey all. I'm really struggling here and need some advice. I am a new nurse at my first nursing job. I graduated May 2017. I just got out of the residency program at my hospital just last week. The closer it got to the end or orientation, the more anxious I got. Now that I'm off orientation and on my own, I'm absolutely miserable. I get paralyzed with anxiety before going into work. I work night shift on a cardiac/stroke unit, and I just wait all day making myself worried and sick until it's time to go to work. Even on my days off I get waves of anxiety just thinking about going back. I've thought about not showing up and having a no call no show so I don't have to deal with it. I'm so miserable. I hate it. I love everyone I work with and I they are all very willing to help as I work at a teaching hospital. I just don't think this is the right job or career for me. I don't want to quit because I think what if it gets better? I've been wondering what could I do with nursing that isn't this stressful and overwhelming?! I don't want to waste my degree, but the stress and anxiety I get working as a bedside nurse with 5-6 patients a shift is too much. It's crippling. I only have a few months experience as a RN, so I can't easily work somewhere else like a clinic. I just need something that doesn't make me feel like the world is ending every time I have to go to work. Please help!!