fredafrals1224

So this is my first post. I read a few others posted here and I hope my post will be accepted with the others. I've been a nurse for over a year now and to make a long story short I still have a tremendous lack of confidence in what I am doing. For the record, I feel that I practice safely, I understand what I am doing and why I am doing it, when patients have gone bad on me I've been able to handle the situations and get help. However, this new year is really throwing me for a loop. I've developed some financial troubles and need to start working overtime. The only difficulty is that the only overtime is available on other floors. My problem is that I am terrified of going to another floor. I work at night in a small hospital so after 730 we drop down to a skeleton crew. So my immediate problem is if I feel anxious about working on my own floor how in the world can I go to another floor where I don't know anybody?!?!? My long term problem is if I feel this lack of confidence with over a year in nursing will that every go away? I don't have a specialty in mind yet but I just feel so nervous about moving on to bigger hospitals and sicker patients. I feel so anxious and on edge at work, that I'll miss something or something will happen and I won't know what to do. Does anyone have any kind of advice or been in this situation before? Any suggestions would be greatly welcomed. Thanks in advance :)

Thank you for the advice HairCanada. I've looked up the required courses for my one number 1 school and will be in the process of taking those next year. What I was hoping to do was take addition courses and use them as electives.

Hi there! I'm new to the forum but after reading many of the posts it seems like I will find alot of help here, so here it goes. I'm a junior in college and just recently decided to pursue a degree in nursing. Small problem though, my univerisity doesn't have an integrated nursing program at my particular campus, I'll have to transfer to anyone college or to the University's School of Nursing (which by the way is apparently really, really hard to get into, for what I've been told). Bigger problem however, my first two years of college I was a biological sciences major and quickly lost interest (that's another story) and as a result my GPA suffer considerably. Thus I have decided to delay applying to nursing school for a year to increase my GPA. I will be taking the bulk of my pre-req's in my "senior" year but my question is what courses should I take in my fifth year to better my chances of acceptance. Should they be science based, social science based or art/humanities courses? Any advice would be greatly appericated! Thanks!