nick4030

i think being burned out is common. i am very burned out right now. especially because i work as a CNA (have for 3 years) in a local hospital. so working 12 hour shifts on the weekends plus 2 twelve hour clinical shifts some weeks are enough to do me in. plus class time and studying, its all just a big blurr. i just keep telling myself, 9 more weeks and i get the summer off! ill spend my summer having a good time with all the people in my life, and, learning how to be a nurse (i have feeling the latter will go on for a while....)

thank you and im glad to hear im not alone... lol. and you are right, the same thing happens to me. the other day someone asked me about pain and how it works. i just talked like it was just a normal conversation then after i left i realized that i had amazed her! lol. love those moments! i heard a phrase the other day that i think is true. "were not computers spitting out facts" i never looked at it that way before and that was how i was feeling. were in school to learn the basics and get exposed to different things and learn how to think critically. not be able to recite every medication action and adverse effects off the top of our heads. haha

I am new here to allnurses, but i am in my second semester of nursing school. i am currently in an LPN program, soon to be applying to PN to RN. I have been a CNA for almost 3 years and LOVE it! Nursing is amazing! I work very very hard in school and do very well. Lately it has been somewhat of a low point though. I am feeling kind of down and like im not retaining everything I need to be retaining. For lack of a better term, I feel dumb.... is this a common feeling??? I really work so hard, just a little nervous... What is expected of a new grad? Is it normal to not remember everything?