MiaRN32

Thank you for the advice! Tomorrow is the big day! But hearing your words of encouragement and advice help my anxiety level go down. Hoping for the best :)

I just graduated in May of 2015. I passed my NCLEX and started applying for jobs ASAP! I landed one on a busy cardiac/telemetry unit. I'm on my last 3 weeks of orientation and I am freaking out. My first night shift alone is December 7th. I had 6 weeks of orientation on day shift with an awesome preceptor. It scares me to think I won't have a preceptor to rely on or catch my mistakes when I'm officially on my own. Now I am on nights (7pm-7am) for 4 weeks. I still feel SICK to my stomach the day before work, and CANNOT sleep!! I go into work and my anxiety is awful. I still feel like I know absolutely nothing... I did very well in school, but I feel like everything I learned in school, or thought I knew just vanished from my memory! I constantly feel like my co-workers are judging me, even though they have all been nice. I get nervous when the docs, nurses, family members etc ask me questions about the patient because I feel like I might give wrong information. Is this normal??? Does anyone have any words of wisdom or comfort???!! I just can't stand the stress this job is giving me, and how it's effecting my life outside of work. I want to feel excited to go to work, not like I want to throw up...