Sometimes I think I'm not good enough to be a nurse

MommaBear08 · May 26, 2013

Im in the same boat, I am so nervous for how hard it is going to be...I am not the greatest study'er...but I have two kids that I need to support plus myself. You just need to do it to feel better about yourself! Im 25 and havent been to school since 2006 when I graduated, it doesnt matter how long you have been out of school as long as you have the drive to achieve your goals you will succeed

pmabraham, BSN, RN · May 26, 2013

Good day, Kali_Dreams:

I just turned 50; and for the past three decades, I've been involved in information technology. I was recently accepted into pre-nursing; and, starting this summer, I will be working my prerequisites.

There are times doubt creeps into my mind as well. Doubt, fear, and all happen to every single person alive.

Courage is not the absence of fear and doubt; courage is the willingness to go through it.

Kali, give it a go; give it your all. Tell yourself every single day, "I can do this, I can do this, I can do this..." and then pursue it. Hit a bump in the road; try a detour.

Thank you.

Kali_Dreams · May 26, 2013

Both you guys are absolutely right. @pma wow that's so inspiring THANK YOU. @momma awww I'm glad you're going and I'm glad you're actually thinking about your children's future. Some parents don't care smh! It is going to be hard but with God all things are possible. We have to remain strong

akulahawkRN, ADN, RN, EMT-P · May 26, 2013

Courage isn't the lack of fear and doubt. It's having all that fear and doubt... and saddling up and doing it anyway because something else is more important. I am one of those people that are going into nursing school as a second career. While I still have to work full-time, I at least have a lot of support from family. However, the support that I do get is not unlimited. While I do not have to worry about all the stresses of going to school that some other people do, I had to redo a lot of my prerequisite courses and thankfully I had done very well in them and was selected for nursing school. One of the things that I had to deal with was having a clinical fail during the last part of my third semester this past year. While I was not unsafe, I was basically just not ready to proceed to fourth semester. Because of some reorganization in the program, I had to repeat two semesters, not just third semester, to continue in the program. I did very well this time around, and I expect to do very well semester and be fully ready to go into fourth semester and be graduated this time next year.

Do I have some doubts? Do I have some fears? Absolutely I do. The one thing that is hanging over my head is that if I have a failure somewhere along the line, I will fail out and have no recourse to return and repeat another semester. Should that happen, I would be required to attend nursing school at another facility.

Despite all the above, I know that my family and future career are more important than my fears and doubts. So I go forth and do it with all the gusto that I can and be the best nursing student that I can possibly be, because in the end, I am the one that is responsible for how I do. No one else. I started my journey in nursing school back in 2005. I was ready to go in 2009. This stuff that cause my fail just a few months ago is nothing but a bump in the road that I will get through.

I can certainly state unequivocally that going back through and doing more clinical time for me has been not only fun, but very productive. I ended up doing a lot of teaching of the patients and my fellow students. I can't say that I was bored...