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Hi, I am still a nursing student who is doubting her choice, I have no motivation to carry on. How do you get over this hump. I have wanted to do nursing for years but have had to put it off due to having kids etc. Any tips would be great

A very big thank you to nurses like you who are willing to take your time to teach students. I have had some great clinical instructors where I have learnt about myself and also learnt the positive side of nursing. To see this here now is a blessi...

I just realized my spelling mistake.....Suppose to be Don't beat yourself up about it

As a student nurse who has also witnessed patients falling, one who was standing right next to me, you did the right thing. I am a bit shocked that the others took time to respond. I did a five week placement on a Older Adult ward and falls were c...

Whatever the reason why Robin Williams did what he did, the family must be in agony. This I would know as my brother committed suicide back in 1998 in the same fashion. Here in New Zealand suicide is not talked about and the impact on the surviving...

I have a ipad and use it all the time for doing nursing study. I am able to use it for lecture notes, research and browsing the web just fine. I also have a separate keyboard which works great for me. I have tried small laptops but have found that t...

Life what is that lol. Nursing school is hard but we just have to stay positive and know that we are doing this for a reason. You also need to have breaks as you will burnout otherwise. Take care of yourself and you will be fine :)

Good on you for giving her some joy. She was in hospice care and so deserves to be able to have what ever she would have wanted. It is nurses like you that make me want to carry on and get my nursing degree.

Sorry but just have to say this...It is quite interesting about all the venting that us students are suppose to be complaining about. No one knows exactly how another person is feeling about a situation as no one has had the exact same experience. On...

It is quite interesting about all the venting that us students are suppose to be complaining about. No one knows exactly how another person is feeling about a situation as no one has had the exact same experience. One thing I have been taught is to ...

Confidentiality is big where ever you are nursing. From what I have seen I would have to agree with you SaoirseRN that confidentiality has always be adhered to on this site. If there were no places like this where else can people share stories, fin...

Looking at what the HIPAA is, we don't have that here in New Zealand either. We have privacy acts that govern that use of patient information but not written in the same way that the HIPAA is written

Hearing comments like this also drives me to finish nursing school. Hearing stories like these show me that there are compassionate nurses out there that really do care about what they do.

Is that why some nurses lose the love of the job

Everyone needs an outlet. That is a part of life. It depends on where that outlet is done. Here on All nurses, this should be a place where nurses and students can learn from each other and be able to vent without being pulled up for it by those wh...

I dont always like staying on my side of the section either. How else are we suppose to learn from those who are already doing what we want to do.

As a nursing student myself, I always want to read what the nurses have to say in this section. It makes me think about what we are taught and how it affects how we are going to do our jobs. Not all of us students think we know everything as we do...

Some of us nursing students completely understand how hard it is to be a nurse and the reality of it all.

The nursing council care about that nurses that come into New Zealand have the same level of qualifications of those who have been taught in New Zealand. Some countries do not have the same levels and teaching that New Zealand does. Check the nursing...

The nursing council care about that nurses that come into New Zealand have the same level of qualifications of those who have been taught in New Zealand. Some countries do not have the same levels and teaching that New Zealand does. Sorry

As a nursing student in New Zealand, to become a registered nurse here you must do the 3 years that is required by the Nursing council. Some places will look at what you have done and what qualifications you may have and work out what actual course...

As a student who is having a second go at the first year, You must never give up if you want to get through. :)

I can sort of understand where everyone is coming from. I am also a mature nursing student that knows nothing when it comes to working in a hospital setting. ( I am still learning and will be for awhile) We did clinical experience last year in res...

I hate doing these. We are getting taught to separate problems into medical and nursing. (Medical are the ones that the docs diagnose and we can not do anything about. While nursing are the ones we can help with. Then into actual (which can be seen...

Hubby told me the best thing to do is go out and buy something that you really want. Is not allowed to do with work. Not sure what that would be at this moment lol. A lot of hard work has been done to get to this point, so a treat is allowed