Thoughts on stress

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Hello everyone! I wanted to post to gather some insight on thoughts about stress. I have not had any major difficulties in NS until now. My programs clinical instructor and professor is starting to make me feel very stressed out to say at least. When I am doing skills evaluations with other instructors or In classes and lab with other instructors I feel happy and optimistic about the future, but any time I have to be in a class of hers or a clinical, I leave feeling the worst that I ever have out of three years of college. My other instructors make sure they are teaching the curriculum and are dedicated to helping students. This instructor that I will call Mrs. K I'd constantly verbally lecturing her students about how they should be stressed out, and says if they are not then something is wrong. When clinical first started I was happy and was excited about working with patients, and now I just can not wait until the end of the day so I can leave. She will send student nurses To do tasks and will refuse to help when she is needed. She tells us over and over that we should be stressing out and she sends out loads of information (5-10) emails with new assignments that were not given or knownprior, about every 3 days. She sent over 12 emails from Wednesday to Sunday this week and gave so much scattered information, and is so unorganized that it is making me feel like I want to cry every time she emails me. I have had to excessively miss other classes because she scheduled things over top of them without an option to reschedule. I feel overwhelmed because every time I get out of her class she bombards me with several emails with information that isn't important. Before class she will send a few unorganized emails about the lecture, and she won't use blackboard for announcements like other instructors. It is getting so bad that several people in the class are becoming stressed out as I am and are hoping to get a new CI. I feel like I am becoming increasingly stressed and as a result of constant stress I am having deprsssion as well. I know that this is not a result of NS itself because I have found nursingSchool it's so to be not challenging at all for me. The exams are very easy to me, this girl's evaluations have all been very easy, but coping with this instructor has been the hardest thing I have ever done. I am starting to feel sick from stress before I go into her classes, after a class with her I spend the next three days shutting myself off from the world and being pessimistic about the nursing profession it self. She Verbally encourages students to be stressed out and says beings all of the time to sort of rack you're nervous about things that are not nerve racking in all reality. The simplest tasks turn into horrid nightmares because she is so high stress and negative about everything. Another person in my class has started to call off And says that she also stresses them out. I want to feel happy and excited about nursing again, but this instructor makes me feel like the world is going to and every time someone needs a set of vitals. Has anyone else ever had someone who was very negative and high stress as a instructor? I am not used to having anyone around me that have constant anxiety and he is so totally negative. I think it has started to impact the other students as well. If anyone has anything in sight or any thoughts about how to manage this type of stressed please let me know because I am becoming what I feel is hopeless. When negative people are around me I cannot help but to feel the impact of what they are feeling, that is the kind of person I am. I always thought that was a good thing until now.

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Specializes in Gerontology.

Paragraghs!!

I need paragraphs!

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What you NEED, is to worry about the context of YOUR OWN APA cited papers and NOT a blog, in this case that you CLICKED ON willingly- that I typed on a website that is hardly navigatable on my iPhone, while I attempted to post a post.. to have someone speak upon MY blog, that they willingly navigated and clicked on that was supposed to be for others to express their thoughts on stressful situations, and hopefully some insight would be added into an already stressful situation, but YOU on the other hand, choose to comment about the context of my blog posted, because you somehow needed to focus on finding a way to knit pick with me about the format of my paragraph.. YOUR life must be much worse than my own! So sorry to have posted my own- when there are people so dissatisfied and miserable in thier own lives that you go around commenting on the way I choose to format a blog while talking to text and driving down the road.. :) I however, will hopefully never see the day when I feel so inferior within my own life, that I have to go around picking with people who are very clearly upset, about minor issues that have nothing to do with my own life, such as formatting a blog online- and insinuating that I NEED them to change what they wrote because it is affecting me .. My life would have to suck wayyyy worse for me to EVER bring myself to make such a useless comment in order to superiorate myself to others on the internet! I hope you get well soon!

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Well there's quite no need to get that angry. Paragraphs or something different may have made this easier to read. I am unsure if it is due to the text to talk, but some of the sentences I had to read multiple times and still didn't quite understand. Without understanding exactly everything that is happening due to the difficulty in reading the post, I can only respond to the general idea.

If your instructor is causing you to miss classes, I honestly don't even understand how that happens and is acceptable to the other instructors or the program itself. Sounds like I would gather my thoughts, maybe a few of the emails, and go to the program director to explain the issues you are having.

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So sorry to have posted my own- when there are people so dissatisfied and miserable in thier own lives that you go around commenting on the way I choose to format a blog while talking to text and driving down the road.. :)

All the rest of the ridiculousness in your reply aside.... are your issues in school really so important that you felt it was okay to divide your attention between complaining about your life online and focusing on the road while you are driving? And don't tell me it's okay because it was talk to text, because studies have shown that even talking to your phone while driving contributes to car accidents (Caird, 2018).

References

Caird, J. (2018). Does talking on a cell phone, with a passenger, or dialing affect driving performance? An updated systematic review and meta-analysis of experimental studies. Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 2018; 60 (1): 101 DOI: 10.1177/0018720817748145

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OP, are you for real? Your opening statement was poorly written stream of conciousness, with no consideration given to the reader. I had sympathy for you, since I did read enough to deduce that your instructor is subpar. But, jumping down someone's throat because they gave you feedback is unacceptable behavior from an aspiring professional.

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OP, are you for real? Your opening statement was poorly written stream of conciousness, with no consideration given to the reader. I had sympathy for you, since I did read enough to deduce that your instructor is subpar. But, jumping down someone's throat because they gave you feedback is unacceptable behavior from an aspiring professional.

This is the same guy who made that post about how nursing school is soooo easy and boring. Per him, all nurses do is write down vitals, and maybe he should go to med school so he can finally be intellectually stimulated.

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This is the same guy who made that post about how nursing school is soooo easy and boring and all nurses do is write down vitals and maybe he should go to med school so he can finally be intellectually stimulated.

This is a guy? It just goes to show, men are also quite capable of histrionics...

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Specializes in Mental Health, Gerontology, Palliative.

a- Stop using your mobile phone while driving. Thats how accidents happen

b- Please use paragraphs. A single block of text that big is impossible to read

c- stop getting so defensive over constructive feedback

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This is a guy? It just goes to show, men are also quite capable of histrionics...

With a female avatar?

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Specializes in Critical care.

You'd get more and better responses if you had paragraphs. I'm not giving myself a headache reading that wall of text. Your response to a respected poster didn't help either...

Also get off your flipping phone while driving! This is spoken from a person who was in a car accident because of another careless driver who hit me and caused me fairly significant injuries and pain.

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What you NEED, is to worry about the context of YOUR OWN APA cited papers and NOT a blog, in this case that you CLICKED ON willingly- that I typed on a website that is hardly navigatable on my iPhone, while I attempted to post a post.. to have someone speak upon MY blog, that they willingly navigated and clicked on that was supposed to be for others to express their thoughts on stressful situations, and hopefully some insight would be added into an already stressful situation, but YOU on the other hand, choose to comment about the context of my blog posted, because you somehow needed to focus on finding a way to knit pick with me about the format of my paragraph.. YOUR life must be much worse than my own! So sorry to have posted my own- when there are people so dissatisfied and miserable in thier own lives that you go around commenting on the way I choose to format a blog while talking to text and driving down the road.. :) I however, will hopefully never see the day when I feel so inferior within my own life, that I have to go around picking with people who are very clearly upset, about minor issues that have nothing to do with my own life, such as formatting a blog online- and insinuating that I NEED them to change what they wrote because it is affecting me .. My life would have to suck wayyyy worse for me to EVER bring myself to make such a useless comment in order to superiorate myself to others on the internet! I hope you get well soon!

Why the histrionics over what is pretty much a benign post? It was a simple request that you use paragraphs in order to make it easier to read. And you respond with hysterics? Hmm, guess you are really stressed, or perhaps you just like drama.

Hope your day gets better.

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