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Should I quit? When I was in nursing school I couldn't wait to graduate and become a nurse. Now ,as a new grad nurse working on a med surge-oncology floor I feel so overwhelmed. I just want to go back to school. Because in school at least the amount of tears I had is much less than when I'm at work. I feel so overwhelmed. Initially management gave me 6 weeks, now they added 2 more. I guessed the unit manager talked to my preceptor and they might have determined that I'm not ready yet to be on my own. And that's the truth, I just can't,seriously. More than 10 occasions during a shift I questioned my intelligence. The more I know the more I don't know. I can't even recall what they taught me in the beginning. I've gone to be bathroom countless times and shedded more tears than a bag of vancomycin. Some days I get easy assignment yet still behind on the charting, and don't get me started on the days I have the heavy ones. Trying to chart my MS assess, LDA, education, care plan, IVPB, pain meds, while one opioid dependent pts keeps pressing the call light demanding to have their dilaudid. One GIP pt passed away waiting to be pronounced and bagged while I have no freaking clue who to call and what to do. The other is freshly post op with frequent VS and is due to void within 6 hours. The ER called and questioned why it took me so long to get the new admission because charge nurse dropped the bed already. The other day one Whipple pt is in so much pain and high maintenance he calls me every 15 minutes, while the lady next door refused to be positioned yet have 3 fleet enema due. A guy in the end of the hallway had BP of 182/101 unresolved with hydralazine PRN, one more across the room is so anemic she tried to stand up, passed out, and nearly fell I had to call code blue. Then, what happened is I'm behind with my charting, can't read all the notes from their file, and can't even give a proper shift change report to the next nurse without them questioning what have I been doing all night. The worst thing is: all of the things above, I can't even do myself. I have to be directed by my preceptor, how and when. How to handle an opioid dependent patient? What if her VS tank from the dilaudid? What do I do if a patient passed away? What if the GIP family demanded to increase the oxygen? Do I call respiratory? What do I ask when the ER give report? What if I don't know what to ask and ER send the pt up with missing orders? How to properly do admission? How to care for a patient with Whipple surgery? What is even PEG tube J tube G tube Wound vac? My nursing school knowledge was completed thrown out of the windows. How do I do the fleet enema with a pt in so much pain? How long will that process take? How much time do I have left until shift end? What if my anemic pt tried to stand up? I can't remember even the simplest thing my preceptor taught me. She looks upset. Is she mad? Does she think I'm stupid? I'm already on my 6th week. Maybe I am. Maybe I am not smart enough to be a nurse. I still have 4 BSN classes this semester. Anything due this week? Did I do that assignment? How's my grade right now? IT'S KILLING ME I can't do this anymore ? I had to call off today. I'm scared to death to go back to work. I feel so incompetent. Maybe this is not for me. Do you guys think I should quit and do outpatient instead? I have started to have panic attacks. I'm so stressed out, I've even thought about going to a specialist and asked for medication for this reason. I'm literally shaking once I clock in to work. Am I stupid? Will I kill somebody? Is this even normal? Please share your story Thanks all

Hi guys, I got accepted, but I will decline. I hope waitlisted people can use my spot.

Hi guys, I received my acceptance email today! I was alternate #8

Oh my god congratulations!!! I’m alternate #8, I hope they let me in too, fingers crossed

I’m #8, they wrote on my letter that for the previous semester, they usually “put 20 alternates in each classes,”. I talked to me nursing counselor and she said alternates have a really good chance to get in, I hope that would be the case for us. @Codeine how do you know they will contact alternates late November? On my letter from GWC i was told to wait until January.

i got 4.0 science GPA and 3.92 overall but did not get in, i think this is like playing the lottery, congrats to those who got accepted @km23860 my friend took Aaron Fay at Goldenwest college and said he was chill, lenient and very helpful.

Just kidding, I hope we can all get in, but the waiting is making me crazy @@

Omg guys what is happenningggg???!!! The day is almost end and I have yet to see anything. Are we all gonna get a refusal letter next week or what? ? The last time I had to wait this long was in my mom's womb.

Hi guys, I also apply to lbcc this Spring I was told to expect the email within this week and is now anxiously waiting. From my understanding, they pick people from different GPA groups, and it feels like I'm playing the lottery. Hope we can all get in and maybe make a group there ?

Hi guys, I got put in as the alternate #8, this is my first time applying and I don't know how this "alternate" thing works. Do I have a chance to get in? On the letter I received, they said they "put an average of 20 alternates in each class" in the past few semesters.