griffin10

I've been working as a med/surg nurse for the last 3 years. I started working nights on a tele/stroke unit where the patients are much higher acuity. And I feel so inadequate as a nurse now. The floor is really hard and I constantly get out late. I've been there for 2 months only but I hate going into work every night and feel depressed. I've been thinking about quitting nursing. Or going back to my old job that I loved. I don't know what to do. What should I do? Help!

I feel you on this one. My life is about going to class, studying, and going to clinicals. I do hang out with my boyfriend, but we end up studying a lot together. I havent even told him that I have felt really depressed recently. Being in nursing school, I feel like a barely get to hang out with my friends and I have almost stopped going to club events I used to love going to. I thought I would make really good friends in my nursing class, but that has not really happened either. Being a nurse has been my dream for so long and now that I am in the midst of attaining it, I am realizing how much I missed my life before. Sorry for using this as my venting place! lol