Raewynv

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 blessing at a time where I question what I am doing and have no motivation. Thank you for the little pep talk :)

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 common. Patients had alarms but some of them knew how to take them off and even hide each bit in different areas of the ward. What you did was what any nurse would do (from what I have seen). Do beat yourself up about it :)

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 family members goes unnoticed. I think that people commit suicide for many reasons and many that we do not think about. We should not just think and talk of what has happened but also look at who and how it impacts on those around the person. When I first heard about Robin Williams I was shocked but then I started thinking about the family and friends who are left behind to deal with this tragedy. Robin Williams was a great actor who loved to make people laugh. He will be greatly missed .

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 they are to heavy to carry (that was before some of the light laptops came out). I think it is what you feel comfortable with, which in the end will work.

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. One thing I have been taught is to never ever put yourself into another persons shoes as you will never know what they are going though as you have never experienced it. This also counts for those who have been doing the same job day in and day out for the last 50 years. And the person who told me this was a lecturer who is still a nurse.

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 never ever put yourself into another persons shoes as you will never know what they are going though as you have never experienced it. This also counts for those who have been doing the same job day in and day out for the last 50 years.

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, find help and vent when they need to.

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 who think they know everything. We are lucky to have places like this where we can get together and feel "safe" that we can vent. When I have been on clinical placement, I have sat with nurses on lunch break where they have talked about patients outside where anyone can hear. I kept my mouth shut as I am just student who has nothing to offer as some nurses are saying. (you would think someone who is 40 would have something to offer) Those places are just wrong as anyone can hear. Here should be safe as not everyone would be just general public. Not all of us students are dumb and should be ignored and tainted with the same brush as others. And we do not wear rose colored glasses either. Just love to know where there is a place where students can vent about nurses that leave bruises on patients are or the ones who are so rough in front of family and students, that patients are scared or they cringe when a nurse comes near. Sorry not trying to be disrespectful to all nurses. There are some out there that nursing is just a job and nothing else. Where has the passion gone???????

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 don't. I for sure will stand up and admit that my knowledge is lacking big time compare to some one who is a nurse already. I know I am in for a big shock when I first step foot into the hospital but I knew that the first day I started study.

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 council website for decent information as what it says on there is what is needed in New Zealand by nurses. They govern what is taught to nursing students as well.

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 courses you need to do.

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 rest homes so I can sort of understand how some people can be hard to deal with. We get taught that yes nurses are going to vent and need somewhere to vent and our lectures understand that but we have to be careful on how we do that. In New Zealand we get taught that there can be a two degree separation and you never know who might know your patient that you may know in your personal life. (there are true stories here that people have talked about a patient not knowing that the person they are talking knows the family etc. Those nurses and students have got themselves in hot water). I think that there will be times where we need to vent who ever we are, we just need to have a place where we can vent and people can empathize with us.

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 right now) and then into potential (Can happen). I am student a from New Zealand so our teaching may differ from yours

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