BDluvsNursing

This is such great advice, thank you. Definitely not more than I asked for, I greatly greatly appreciate it! After a few more days here on my unit and having to work three 12 hour shifts in a row this last week I’m really wanting to give it all up, but I’m still going to try to figure out what I’m going to do.

Thanks so much. Any suggestions then, as to how to get around chores around the house in the midst of a busy schedule?

I’m a graduate nurse that just started working on a med/surge floor beginning of August. The first few days were pretty exciting as I was learning the ropes and basics of how to chart and see my first few patients under my preceptor and things. But the 3 12-hour shifts a week I’m doing has really started to hit me hard. I wake up after 7+ hours of sleep now feeling like I got none, and I’m trying simultaneously to somehow cook for myself and keep my apartment clean, and just generally take care of myself but I just can’t do it all. These 12 hour shifts are awfully long and with all of this other transition I’m undergoing with living on my own and just trying to make a living, it feels like too much and I’m thinking about just quitting already. I can’t keep up with all of these things I’m trying to juggle and I’ve come home many times now in tears from how overwhelmed and stuck I feel in the place that I’m in. Should I just give this all up and quit on my residency? Cause if I don’t do something soon I’m afraid I’ll just collapse.