Second Semester Tomorrow!

[Iridescent Orchid, CNA, LPN]

I'll be taking Med/Surg I and II as well as their clinical portions in a 9-week span. I am excited, but at the same time very nervous. A fellow student sent me a text earlier today to remind me that we will be doing 19-point physical assessment and BP check offs tomorrow morning when we get there and that our instructor wants us to be spot-on. I am confident in my knowledge in those areas, of course...but I have nerves that are out of this world sometimes, and really do not want to screw up. I have learned to control them greatly by the end of first semester, but it creeps back up randomly. When I read the text I immediately had a hot flash and it left me really flustered. My fiance didn't know how serious I was when I was saying I was having one, but then he felt how sweaty and hot I suddenly became. They have become exhausting! I have had quite a few this past week in regards to school conversations...I am hoping this passes. It was not a problem first semester at all! I am not too sure what has brought all of this on, but I am hoping once into the semester good, it will all pass. Anyone else had this kind of anxiety when it came to a new semester in the LPN program? Not too sure what else to say in this post, without running on and on, but basically just wanting to feel like this is normal, I guess?