draya

Being nervous is a normal thing. I'm 50 & am in finals week of my 1st semester of nursing school (ADN). I have anxiety & work full time nights & attend schooll full times days. It's not easy & requires a HUGE amount of sacrifice. I'm not exaggerating or trying to scare you when I say this: I have gone weeks without a "normal" conversation with my husband & my married son moved back to our home state because he said he moved to Texas to be near me & I don't visit or invite him over but maybe once a month. Like another poster asked, "are you & your family ready & willing to accept the fact that you're not going to be as available to them as you have been"? Nursing school is a lot of heavy, heavy work and requires a lot of time outside of class & a lot of having to say no to all the fun things you're used to doing. I have cried over not being able to find the time to go watch a movie and to not go to Zumba and not having a pedicure in months. What gets me through is this: first, I pray all the time and remind myself this is temporary and that the next two years are going to happen anyways, so, now that I'm here, I need to do Be 100% in & get it all done If if I can do this, ANYBODY can. You just have to have the right mindset & ability to put other things aside. P.S. my advice to you is to get help for the anxiety BEFORE starting school. We had a student fail out because she was so anxiety strikken that she ended up hospitalized twice and missed two exams. :/

I am currently in nursing school (ADN) and entered with a 3.88 gpa & learning always came easy to me. I must say, THIS IS THE HARDEST THING I'VE EVER DONE IN MY LIFE. I am 50 years old, work full time nights at a hospital in labor & delivery as a scrub tech & gonto school full-time days & have 1 day free to study per week & I'm making an A in Pharmacology & a B in my other two classes. We have had 2 fail out before the semester was over. One of them was because she was late to class every day, late to almost EVERY exam which cost her 10 points each time and liked to brag about her "friends " who would come over all weekend and then drag herself into class on Monday morning. The other student had major anxiety problems and couldn't focus. She had been hospitalized twice at a mental institute & just couldn't handle the stress. Remember this: school requires maturity, dedication, time meanagemt & sacrifice. You have to learn how to say "no"!to the invites to go have a girls day the weekend before an exam, you have to turn off the TV & watch video assignments when you'd rather be binge watching your favorite Netflix show. It's abiut time management, reaching out to your peers and making good decisions when you'd rather throw caution to the wind. You can do this, you just have to believe you can!