Krosern6

It's been about 9 months now. Things are somewhat better now. My first unit was the worst. The second unit I was on went much better...great staff but it took awhile to get comfortable. I was so anxious from the first unit that I kept expecting everything to be awful. Last week I switched to my third and final unit of my residency. This unit,gsu, is very busy...but I survived the first week ok. I still get teary eyed but usually only on Mondays. Thank you everyone for all of your posts. Hoping to survive the next few months and then hoping to get into postpartum which I have a passion for. Hoping that oncei find my passion everything will click.

I've been a nurse for about 6 months now in med surg. Ever since being on my own after orientation I have had a ton of anxiety, stress, sleepless days/nights over worrying. I don't know what to do anymore. The day before I have to go into work the anxiety starts creeping back up. The day of going back to work, I can't sleep, I get an upset stomach and spend much of the day crying. I go to work each night in tears. Most of the time once I get to work and get report and get going things end up going ok but then there are the disaster nights where I don't know how I am going to get through the night. I think these nights are what cause me to have so much anxiety. I am always terrified that I am going to have an awful patient load or something awful will happen. I feel trapped, it's such an awful feeling dreading work. What do I dp??