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.
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.
Yes, you are correct - same person.
Here's an excerpt from that previous post titled, "Any RNs considering medical school?":
I am in my last year of nursing school and am finding nursing school to be incredibly boring and not stimulating at all. All day long I am measuring and recording vital signs, while I wish I was studying more biology and chemistry. I like the time I get with patients, and I love to make them happy.. but I just feel like this is too easy. I could have slept through every semester of nursing school because it was all too easy and it didn't really require as much critical thought as I thought it would for me.
OP, it sounds as if someone answered your call and made nursing school not so boring......
I just wanted to add this is the second post I've seen that you have posted within the last week. On both posts, you have had these outbursts which are completely unnecessary. You're new to the site and on both posts you are doing some serious talk-back to the majority of people who answer you. Keep in mind, some day, these might even be people you will be working with. You never know!
There is knowledge and great advice coming from folks answering your questions and you meet them with hostility. These are people who have been in your position at one point and know how things can go and how they go.
I strongly suggest you listen to what they say and think about some of the responses you type, before you type them.
Mergirlc, MSN, APRN, NP
732 Posts
Yes, you are correct - same person.
Here's an excerpt from that previous post titled, "Any RNs considering medical school?":
I am in my last year of nursing school and am finding nursing school to be incredibly boring and not stimulating at all. All day long I am measuring and recording vital signs, while I wish I was studying more biology and chemistry. I like the time I get with patients, and I love to make them happy.. but I just feel like this is too easy. I could have slept through every semester of nursing school because it was all too easy and it didn't really require as much critical thought as I thought it would for me.
OP, it sounds as if someone answered your call and made nursing school not so boring......
Be careful what you wish for!