Time to poop or get off of the pot

[tryingtobeanurse]

I have slowly been pursuing nursing school pre-reqs. This has been going on since 2008. I could have gone much faster, I could have transferred a lot of general credits from my earlier college experience. I have come to the realization that I am stalling. Why am I stalling? Because I have rejection issues. Not just as it applies to nursing school but life in general. After this fall, I have to s**t or get off of the pot. I can't stall anymore. I am just so afraid that I won't get accepted that I fear even trying at all. Then what would I do? I know that I will never get anywhere by just not doing anything. I have stalled so long that I have watched the requirements change at the schools I have been looking at. So, I have used that as another excuse as to why I can't apply this semester. I have made some progress by registering to take the TEAS. People keep asking me when I am going to finish and I wish they would shut the heck up. I look at this forum and see the post from the disappointed people who have applied time after time and have been rejected. I hurt for them. I think I will start with one application and see what happens. I try not to let my fear or rejection rule my life but a lot of times it does.

[OB-nurse2013, BSN, RN]

Oh I feel completely the same way. I have been saying I am going to be a nurse forever. I had my first son unexpectedly and post-poned my app for a year and then when i went in to do it they changed all the admission rules and I felt very screwed and betrayed-i know taht sounds stupid but thats how i felt. I also scheduled to do my app on my birthday since i thought it would be a happy wonderful moment lol..so... i transferred schools but my cruddy old school made a mistake with my bio course and wouldn't fix it so the university i was applying to wouldn't transfer it so they wanted me to re-take a basic bio class! then i did it and then when i went to apply they told me there was a 3 year wait! at the info session i was told there was a 1 year wait! once again i felt annoyed and irritated. so i am at my last school, so far i love it. i have been here since last fall and have put off applying. i could have applied in jan but i put off taking my TEAS, so now i have taken my TEAS, finished all pre-req's for this school, and submited my official application. I am scared and cannot stop thinking about it-if i don't get in now then i am giving up, i cannot justify waiting any longer to finish school. But i guess my point is i feel the same way you do-i am so scared i am going to get rejected now and my husband, family, and in-laws will all know and all be disapointed in me.

[iPink, BSN, RN]

Apply. Face your fears head on. I just finished up my prerequisite classes and just applied to NS a few days ago. I will be waiting until next month if I've been accepted or not. But, it will not be the end of the world for me if I don't get in. We are human, so we are going to fear/worry about things. But, we shouldn't allow it to kill us. I remembered a quote from Mickey Rooney, "You have to pass failure on the way to Success." Essentially, this is true. I have failed so many things in my life, but each experience has taught me a lesson. Your greatest asset is perseverance.

Try, try, and try again. We are all there now. I tell people all the time, It doesn't matter how long it takes, as long as you finish. So don't worry about the folks who keep asking "when are you going to finish?"

[CoffeemateCNA]

Great title!

[Anne36, LPN]

If I were you I would just apply and dont advertise it to everyone until you know for sure that you have made into the program. It seems like you are worried about what everyone else is thinking about your career path.

iluvpatho, my school tweaks their requirements a little bit every year as well. Its hard to keep up as a student when it takes a few years to do pre-req's. I am lucky I just missed the new Biology proficiency test requirements because I never would have passed it after being out of high school 20 years. That would have added another Biology class to my schedule. (I ended up with an A in Microbiology so I dont see why that test is relevant)

[OB-nurse2013, BSN, RN]

Anne36- I know I think you went to my old school..I was so mad because they used to do it that if you were a priority 1 student and didnt make it in u got a reserved seat for the following year and tehy have been doing that since my aunt went tehre in the late 80's so the year i apply she tells me that they arent doing taht anymore and that they already had 400 applicants because tehy ahd a lot of transfers.. i just thought that itw as crazy some priority should be given to students that take all their credits tehre, tahts what most otehr schools do. so i moved on and just applied for the winter semsester start at madonna u. fingers crossed

[caliotter3]

Stalling is a form of action in and of itself, but unfortunately it comes with a price. Start applying to nursing programs and you may have some "built in" stalling as you try to find a program that accepts you. When the other side of the coin is doing the stalling often it is incentive for us to pick up our pace. Good luck.