taylissa

So I'm getting ready to start my final semester of Nursing, I've done great so far and aniticpate to continue with my good grades and graduate this May. But I can't shake this feeling, call it a little voice in the back of my mind, it's a haunting scary feeling that....once I pass my NCLEX (God willing), and get a job, (again, God willing), what if I'm a horrible nurse? What if I forget everything I've learned over the last the four years? What if I make a huge mistake? Along my journey I have met so many awsome Nurses, my Clinical instructors are great, many of the floor nurses I have been paired with just amazed me. What if I'm not half the nurse that they are? In plain English "What if I suck"? So I find myself fighting with this feeling day in and day out, it's mentally exhausting actually, and many times I've thought that maybe I should just drop out and find another line of work. I started Nursing school because I felt a calling 5 years ago, and it is my dream to help, comfort, and touch the lives people around me. If anyone has had a similar situation, I'd greatly appreciate hearing from you. Maybe I'm just crazy , Nursing school has been known to do that to students LOL

So I'm getting ready to start my final semester of Nursing, I've done great so far and aniticpate to continue with my good grades and graduate this May. But I can't shake this feeling, call it a little voice in the back of my mind, it's a haunting scary feeling that....once I pass my NCLEX (God willing), and get a job, (again, God willing), what if I'm a horrible nurse? What if I forget everything I've learned over the last the four years? What if I make a huge mistake? Along my journey I have met so many awsome Nurses, my Clinical instructors are great, many of the floor nurses I have been paired with just amazed me. What if I'm not half the nurse that they are? In plain English "What if I suck"? So I find myself fighting with this feeling day in and day out, it's mentally exhausting actually, and many times I've thought that maybe I should just drop out and find another line of work. I started Nursing school because I felt a calling 5 years ago, and it is my dream to help, comfort, and touch the lives people around me. If anyone has had a similar situation, I'd greatly appreciate hearing from you. Maybe I'm just crazy , Nursing school has been known to do that to students LOL

So I'm getting ready to start my final semester of Nursing, I've done great so far and aniticpate to continue with my good grades and graduate this May. But I can't shake this feeling, call it a little voice in the back of my mind, it's a haunting scary feeling that....once I pass my NCLEX (God willing), and get a job, (again, God willing), what if I'm a horrible nurse? What if I forget everything I've learned over the last the four years? What if I make a huge mistake? Along my journey I have met so many awsome Nurses, my Clinical instructors are great, many of the floor nurses I have been paired with just amazed me. What if I'm not half the nurse that they are? In plain English "What if I suck"? So I find myself fighting with this feeling day in and day out, it's mentally exhausting actually, and many times I've thought that maybe I should just drop out and find another line of work. I started Nursing school because I felt a calling 5 years ago, and it is my dream to help, comfort, and touch the lives people around me. If anyone has had a similar situation, I'd greatly appreciate hearing from you. Maybe I'm just crazy :uhoh21:, Nursing school has been known to do that to students LOL

That's a good way to look at it, thanks for your perspective :)

Definately stay off the web-site LOL, stick with the subject at hand other wise you'll get anxious, I had the same problem, I started reading nursing books while still taking pre-reqs and was TOTALLY freaked out :uhoh21: you'll get there soon enough. Put on the blinders and concentrate on current stuff

I've had a few situations like this happen to me, worse yet is that I was actually IN clinicals when it happened no kidding, while working on the floor the nurse actually had the nerve to tell me I was crazy for wanting to be a nursethat this is terrible and this is horrible and the pay is awful ect ect ect well I think I was in shock and on the verge of tears the rest of the day wow that really takes nerve

If you really want this, don't let anything stand in your way, study hard, and this will only make you stronger

yes what pneumonic are you referring to, I'd love to check it out!

I'm still only a nursing student, but hope that I can be half the nurse you are! Please don't throw in the towel, for me and for all the future nurses out there, we need you to learn from, your experience sounds emotionally draining to say the least. just think about the outcome if you weren't there? You were exactly where you where supposed to be, be at peace with that and ........exhale.

thank you guys for your words of confidence, trying to stay focused and positive :) NurseLoveJoy, I think your on to something.....somehow reading 100 pages in 3 days and not knowing what the heck they are saying and being totally exhausted at the end of the day just isn't working for Nursing 3 and 4, hummmmm, maybe I need a new strategy, you guys rock !!

In My last year of nursing and just bombed my first test EVER, Endo(even though I studies a totol of 19 hours in 1 week) I'm devistated and am now in Cardiac, if I can't pass ENDO how am I ever going to pass Cardiac?? How can you study for 19 hours and not PASS? my morale has been crushed, now thinking maybe I should drop? I'm usually am A /B student. I'm just at a loss for words....any advice:crying2:

Ortho. Dr. Armbruster! LOL