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Today was the last day of the trimester, we finished with the pharmacology final. On Tuesday was our med-surg final. I've heard from several classmates that they just need ____ points to pass. Some are doing the bare minimum and just aiming for that 70 required to pass. A few people even finished the 100 question pharm final in 30 minutes...which is almost impossible because with the amount of SATA questions it seems unlikely that the students were even trying. It makes me wonder about the nurses who have taken care of my family members and whether or not the nurse even knew what she was doing. Or if she just got lucky passing the NCLEX. I work hard for my good grades and it worries/angers me to see people that barely try and still get to continue to the next semester when it's obvious they're not that interested in actually learning anything. With many even using test banks from the textbook Very scary.

6 Kids????!!

That's so true! I'm not talking about OP though, I just meant a lot of people on this forum. I guess the happy nurses are too happy to spend their time on this little unhappy corner of the web

Very good, but nothing was related on how to manage anxiety and didn't include any ideas on how to be better prepared should the OP decide to go back to nursing. Again, this is why I said she should gain some CNA experience so that she gradually feels less anxious around patients and will be more ready to take on nursing. Can you not read?

Side note to your thread: Why is this kind of attitude so prevalent on this website? It seems a lot of people on here are bitter, sarcastic, condescending know-it-alls. I have 1 year left of school and if this is what awaits, I am not looking forward to it.

Then I'm surprised you aren't more compassionate towards others that struggle with anxiety. Instead of shooting down the OP's entire career aspirations, maybe you can recommend some coping strategies that helped you while in school and at clinical. It's highly likely that she'd be much less anxious after graduation because by that point, one is more experienced and comfortable thanks to their schooling, as well as much more confident in her abilities because of the many hours spent at clinical and internship. And yeah, she still does have to get through school but hands-on learning experiences and figuring out how to succeed in clinical will be the only way through it. Which is why I recommended CNA work in order for her to get more accustomed to patient-care.

I think it would be wise to gain experience as a CNA first to get comfortable around patients and accustomed to doing vitals/BP and just generally being around patients. I had a really scary clinical professor once so I know what you went through :) It's hard for people that don't deal have anxiety to comprehend what it's like, so don't listen to the person above. And the nursing field is so broad that you don't even have to do bedside care in a hospital if you choose not to.

Thank you for the useful and thoughtful comment!

Sorry..but it's true. Welcome to 2017, soon to be 2018. My classes are full of people in their early 20's :)

Thank you for the constructive and kind post! I agree. I have chosen to ignore her. It's sad that there are so many rude people in nursing when it's a profession that involves a great deal of kindness and compassion.

We have assigned seats. I can multi-task And it's hard to pay attention to class when feeling uncomfortable. I try not to use my phone much. Everyone I know occasionally texts during class, not saying it's ok but that's how it is in 2017 I suppose!

Thank you for your useful response! I have chosen not to pay attention to her and pretend like I don't hear anything when she's slamming stuff down. I'm sure she loves it haha!

The instructor of the class is the director of nursing, sorry I failed to mention that in my original post