ilooc72

Thank you everyone for your responses. No I have not ever been asked to leave, I left by choice. I have never been disciplined or reprimanded for my work. Much of my feelings of inadequacy have to do with myself. I feel like an imposter faking it and getting by. I feel that I make a lot of mistakes, and I miss obvious nursing assessments. Like for instance, if I have a patient all night and they have many issues first thing in the morning I blame myself for not properly managing them. Seems like a lot of my patients always have issues after my shift, and I don’t understand why I am not catching it/ overlooking them. I think the day shift nurses hate following me. I have been trying to stay positive and increase my knowledge. I just took a certification class for wound care. I made new report sheets and check off list to improve my assessment skills. I have been trying to stay on top of medicating my patients. But I just feel I am not improving. I am beginning to believe I am not cut out for nursing.

I have been struggling with my feelings lately that I am just too dumb to be a good nurse. I have been a nurse for 4 yrs so I am not a new grad. I have worked in telemetry, med/surg, and ICU. I left ICU 6 months ago and I am currently in hospice. I felt inadequate in every specialty, including where I'm at now. I don't think I can even perform simple nursing tasks properly. I try very hard to do a good job, I read current nursing literature, and I have bought books to reference and improve. Yet, I still keep messing up in my clinical practice. I love nursing and caring for my patients, but I am just not good enough. I am considering just quitting nursing altogether and returning to school for something else.

Hi, I am a first year nursing student. When I began my semester, I met a woman who seemed pretty nice. I agreed to form a study group with her and another classmate. I write detailed outlines to study from sometimes, and I agreed to share them. Well, the woman would constantly nag me for them, asking me if i did the readings and started it yet because she relied on them to study. I told her the course load for nursing is much heavier than previous classes and I had work and other classes to worry about as well. But I always sent them to her when I finished, even if it was a bit late. The other classmate ended up withdrawing mid semester, but she was always helpful, and even wrote one of the outlines when I missed a class. She offered her recording for the missed lecture, but when I said I wasn't writing that outline, the other classmate was, I never received it. I ended up getting it from another classmate who nicely sent it to my phone immediately. The study group was unproductive to me because it consisted mostly of sitting there and reading my outlines. So, I stopped making the effort to meet period. Anyway, our final is in one week and it is a cumulative test with 7 lectures and 13 new chapters. I asked her if she would type just the last 4 power points, not do the entire outline or fill them in. She sent me one so far, and expressed how hard it was and how late she stayed up typing it and how I should do it. I ended up typing up the rest and well as the previous chapters. I completed two of the outlines and almost the third, then a personal medical issue came up recently for me. I had to go to the doctor a couple of times and also have a procedure done. She texted me thanking me for the outlines, I already sent and did I do the others. I told her had a lot on my plate to deal with and that I'm going through some personal health issues. I said I would finish what I can when I can. She didn't respond and texted me the next day stating, "Like what". This upset me greatly and I told her I didn't think she was a friend if she couldn't understand with my situation. I feel I go out of my way to help her, allowing her to borrow (and I gave her one) books, sharing my lecture/lab notes, helping her register online, even occasionally picking stuff up for her outside of school. She's even asked for notes for another class for a friend of hers (I didn't have any). And I don't think I get anything much in return from her. I don't mind helping, but this is a tough time for me and I think she is being unfair with her demands. I am beginning to believe she feels entitled to my work and is not as willing to help me when I need it. Should I stop helping her or am I wrong because I did tell her at the beginning of the semester I would share?