Stress!!!

okay, am i the only person who feels so overwhelmed by this stuff? i honestly do not see how i am ever going to learn and remember all of the information,values,levels,terms, etc. i go to school, go to work (at a hospital),and try to see my family for at least 10 min. before they go to bed. then i stay up 'til about 2am studying.........only to have no one understand how stressed i am!! i feel like i will be the best darn nurse, if i can just make it through school!

Is there any way you can cut back on your hours at the hospital? For this past semester our instructors advised us all to take a LOA for the 7 weeks.

Time management and when you study be sure you are focused, rested, and really studying~ not just going through the motions~

Good luck~

I understand how you feel, I am there too. Am in the last term of my freshman year of nursing school, working part time (minimal hours, with same responsibilities that I had working more hours),family and now on top of that, my husband was just diagnosed with colorectal cancer. Nursing books are SCARY regarding that... Just another added stress. All I can possibly advise you to do is decide if this is what you really want and if it is where there is a will there is a way, so hang in there. Good Luck.

[ggspears]

I am with you!!! I don't work but I have a 16 month old and my husband deploys off and on. Fun times. But the way I look at it time goes by so fast and in a couple more years I are going to look back and laugh. Or I am hoping I can do that anyway. It will pay off in the end.

thanks for all the support guys! i just took my first exam for the quarter, studied my a@$ off all week....and got a 68! holy crap.the class avg.was a 74%. i have came to the conculsion that some instructors honestly just enjoy people getting low grades on exams. it's like it makes them feel smarter when they see us struggle. i am a damn good student nurse and i care about this more than anyone will know, i am not going to worry about it i guess b/c i know that i busted my butt and that i can explain that entire test content better than most people. it just sucks........

[Annisme]

Yes indeed...the stress is enormous! I am in my 4th semester of a BSN program. This semester is Peds and Mental Health...along with a jillion papers, presentations and special projects, not to mention going to a weekend clinical at a children's hospital.

Stress, we are right there with you!

Hang in there! I found that talking with the nursing faculty on how to study for their tests was helpful, and kept me from wasting time.

Just keep going, YOU WILL BE A GREAT NURSE:bowingpur

[st4wb3rr33sh0rtc4k3]

It is stressful. But, taking time for yourself, which seems impossible. I would say the best time I had in nursing school was studying in study groups with my classmates.

[9livesRN, BSN, RN]

i leave my house at 6 am every day from monday to friday and i am only back at 1 am!! (full time work and school)

it is hard but...

i have to do what i have to do!