Blossom62

Bullying is bullying and no amount of excusing it through "wanting to motivate you to be better" is ever going to make it stop. Nursing is a challenging enough career without making our working lives hell with bullies. This instructor needs a good smack - hmm, perhaps not, but needs to do some training on how to teach and encourage without making her students feel like rubbish. Well done on getting through - and if you ever become an instructor, at least she will have taught you how not to teach!!

I am so sorrry that you have had this experience - "old nurses eat young nurses" - I also had it to a very small degree, which is why I now purposelfully try to encourage and support nursing students who have clinical experience with the aged care facility I work in. We need to be caring and kind to each other - really in every field that people work, but mostly in nursing because it is such an emotionally draining job. I hope that you enjoy pharmacy work - we have a fabulous pharmacist who does our reviews, and I learn a lot from him when we discuss meds the residents take. Being part of a multidisciplinary team is excellent.

It sounds like you are feeling overwhelmed by all the study and stress from your family. Once your degree is finished - and hang in there - it costs too much in time and money and effort to give up now - try to find an area of nursing that you feel suits you and gives you satisfaction before tossing it in permanently. That is the beauty of this profession - even industrial nursing can give the right person satisfaction. I have a friend who got a heavy truck licence and is now a nurse for a mining company. I'm an aged care/palliative care nurse. Both of us are satisfied with our careers. I hope that you can find the same satisfaction. Can you remember why you went into nursing in the first place? Sometimes it's good to go back to our roots and remember the simpler reasons for doing a job. Good luck.