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Thank You so much for the encouragement....

Hi everyone, I am in some desperate need of advice............I always dreamed of becoming an RN but I dropped out of Nur2 for the second time ....I HATE med/surg. I really can't get passed it and now I'm thinking this might not be for me but the thought makes me very sad . I spent so much time getting here and now I feel worse that I dropped out AGAIN than if I would have dealt with the anxiety...I feel like i let my family down and made a lot of people happy who were jealous...On top of all the anxiety from clinical s I am also dealing with depression in my personal life and I was told you have to have tough skin to survive nursing school and I don't I am very sensitive so dealing with depression made me sink even faster. Now I don't know what to do. Some say go into another health field...I was thinking sonography but not sure... others said do lpn and see what its really like. I wanted to be a L&D nurse can you do this straight out of rn school...is it specializing...I would like to work OB thats y I was thinking sonography but im not getting any younger and I'm becoming so impatient its driving me crazy. I am so stuck... Please any advice will be very helpful.

I definitely will go back and finish my RN especially because I already have all of my pre-reqs done. I do agree with you Jackson because when I was in A&P classes with LPNs they already knew most of what everyone else was learning so it felt like they had an advantage but like tweety said you will survive, I guess in the real world you get caught up with anything you misses and I've heard that when you start working thats when the real learning begins.

I'm scheduled to start the RN program in January but right now I am in a really uncomfortable situation so I'm thinking that I should just do the LPN program for now because I really need the money. I just want a professional opinion, Would this be a mistake?

Hey I suffer from the same thing and I was going to post a thread until I found this but the replies dont seem very helpful.. I think I'll post one under general discussion because it seems like you get more feedback.. Also you want to hear from a nurse who has or is experiencing this same thing to see how they manage.