Sudi93

I'm a nursing student who'll be finishing second year this summer. Throughout my school, I've been unsure if this is what I really want. I'm not good at making conversations or talking for that matter. It's a problem that I've had in lots of aspects in my life but really became obvious when I became a nursing student. I hate group work because I'm not good at communicating with my group and I hate when they constantly talk about their personal life. Which I'm rarely interested in. I'm at a placement now where the nurses visits elderly at home and care for them there. We just have to follow the nurses around, observe what they do and reflect upon what we experience in the different homes. My clinical supervisor have pointed our that I'm a very quiet girl. She wants me to put words on what I think, see, hear and smell at the different visits. She wants me to learn to communicate better with the patients like small talk with them, ask them about their life to build a relation with them. I understand why I have to do that but I really struggle with it. It's hard for me to communicate with people I don't know. I don't know what to do. I think I'm unfit for nursing because communication is a core. Is there anyone else who struggle with the same problems? And sorry for my English. It's not my first language