breanna91

Thank you both for your responses! Very helpful and encouraging. Being in control is an interesting/good way to think about it.

I've been taking classes on and off for about 3 years now at my community college. At first I didn't know what I wanted to major in, dropped a semester, & other things happened that kind of slowed me down. Anyway, I have worked really hard completing my prerequisite courses and I was accepted to the ADN program starting this fall. Although I am SO EXCITED and proud of myself, after the first orientation meeting tonight I'm extremely nervous. Everything is real now! The meeting really didn't do much besides scare me honestly. I'm expecting to work my butt off and failure really isn't an option so I'm not so much concerned about success, but I'm worried about doing clinicals, time management, and stuff like that. I've read a hundred articles about nursing and nursing school online but I guess I just can't help but be nervous! Can anyone tell me about first level clinicals or just the first semester in general? Did you feel well prepared for clinicals? I have this fear that I'm going to be thrown into it and feel like I'm not ready. Do your instructors typically go over things pretty thoroughly with you hands on or expect you to know a lot of it from the reading? Any other advice for a new student would also be appreciated :)