Suitepea79

my aunt has chf and is on dig too.

Hi I just started my second quarter of nursing school and I freaked out. I don't work as an na or have any clinical patient care experience. My na training was 3 years ago so naturally I freaked out when I realized we were expected to be competant in those areas the first week. I thought we learned that in our first nursing clinical but we were expected to know that plus nursing skills. I had to withdrawl and take a break because I felt thoroughly unprepared and was afraid of hurting someone. How do I get past this fear? Now I am reinstated and am waiting another year to finish the rest of my classes. Can anyone help me or give any advice? I do well in all my classes but when it comes to clinical time my nerves get the best of me and I can't think straight sometimes. I also felt my na training was very subpar with only 16 clinical hours the rest was classroom time. How was I expected to feel competent in my nursing skills when I wasn't even competent in na skills? thanks

FYI if you hate working as a pct now then nursing may not be for you. BTW I work currently as a unit secretary and I am in nursing school. I respect my fellow co-workers but letting them know that patients are in need of assistance is part of my job so DON'T KILL THE MESSENGER. If you need help doing something then you need to take it up with the nurses that are part of your team. Every night I work I have to constantly hunt down someone to do some piddly little thing that a patient needs and all I ever hear is crap about it. If you don't want to do it then look for another job--the bottom line is everyone needs to work as a team to give good patient care and everyone needs to realize they are part of that team. I also understand why nurses get fed up with pct's that are in nursing school because they try to be nurses when they're clearly not. They try to tell the nurse what he/she needs to do instead of minding their business and taking care of the patients within their scope of practice.