What did nursing school do to you?

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Did it drive you crazy? What types of feelings did you have? Today was the last clinical day of the semester, and I have so many different emotions. I'm scared, anxious, worried, somewhat excited.......it could go on forever. It has only been these last 10 weeks that I have been feeling this way. I have only the spring semester left before I graduate. It feels as though I have been chewed up and spit out. I guess I am just wondering if other people had similar feelings.:uhoh3:

Nursing school is teaching me the value of really really loooong swims (destroy stress before it destroys you)

Nursing school has also taught me the true wonder of icy thereputic bourbon and cheetoes (titrated for effect)

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I'm with you, I love the experience of nursing school, never really stressed out except when I studied for a test an hour before it was given but that wasn't to often. I absolutely love theory, though it van be boring at times, I love having my skills tested in clinicals. Maybe because I love chaos. I love that I will be graduating in February even more, but the 11 months of clinical really taught me what I can do when I put my mind to it.

Thank goodness!!! AFter reading a few of these I was starting to think I was some sort of freak for loving it. :confused:

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Nursing school is teaching me the value of really really loooong swims (destroy stress before it destroys you)

Nursing school has also taught me the true wonder of icy thereputic bourbon and cheetoes (titrated for effect)

I love the titrated for effect part!!! :yeah: :yeah:

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Specializes in OB.
Nursing school has also taught me the true wonder of icy thereputic bourbon and cheetoes (titrated for effect)

ewww. not together.. right?? they sound good but not as a mixture!!!!!

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Specializes in geriatric, hospice, med/surg.

Made me forget about mundane things like housework, ironing, other time consuming "delights" of life, induced insomnia on preclinical nights, always.

Contributed to a general distain for anything not nursing in nature for the three years it took to obtain my associate's degree.

Helped a rather precarious marriage before school to finally smolder in the ashes of divorce and raising two little ones alone.

Irritrievable prenursing figure....too much late night munching assisting the pretest jitters of all nighters studying....

beginnings of DM II due to above...

and finally.....*(drumroll....) a nervous breakdown beginning of second year!

Made it, though, thanks to the help of modern medications! LOL

Xanax should be prescribed upon leaving the hospital for all new moms, and all prenursing students....

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Specializes in ICU.
ewww. not together.. right?? they sound good but not as a mixture!!!!!

How about with nice smoky (Islay type) Scotch + Trader Joe's Thai spiced peanuts. Heat from the peanuts (it includes dried kaffir lime leaves, lemongrass, and dried chile peppers - yum, yum), combined with the icy smokiness of the Scotch. :flamesonb

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Specializes in Mostly LTC, some acute and some ER,.

I have 8 months left in the 2 year LVN program. I'll tell you that anything makes me cry anymore lol Its very stressful. It will all be worth it in the end though! I've been sick alot, and I get alot of headaches as well as female problems!!! Best of luck to you.

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Specializes in Infectious Disease.

Negatives:

1. WEIGHT GAIN

2. Majorly upped my stress level

3. Huge, huge drop in income ---> negative effect on my credit rating

4. Total lack of interest in sex. (who has the time?)

5. Loss of contact with my pre-nursing best friend. We try but.....

6. Introduced me to the unbending, all-knowing, GOD-complex, worship me

attitudes of some instructors and nurses. I never heard of nurses eating their

young before starting school but now, I get it.

7. Learning to live in a not so clean house.

8. Clinical instructor from the first half of my second semester made me

feel totally incompetent and suggested I pursue another profession. What

a demoralizing experience. She didn't like me from the first day of clinical.

I didn't give her the accepted reason for attending nursing school. "It was a

calling from GOD....."

Positives:

1. I know some stuff!!!!

2. First semester clinical instructor told me that I'm going to be a great

nurse but I didn't believe her. Clinical instructor from the second half

of the second semester told me that I'm going to be a great nurse and the

nurses on the floor wanted to hire me. I still didn't believe. My clinical

instructors from third semester told me that I'm going to be a great nurse

and NOW I BELIEVE!!! I impressed myself this semester. My confidence level

is pretty high right now.

3. Showed me how WONDERFUL my kids are. They never complain. They TRY to

let me study. They ask me questions about MY DAY. They are proud of me.

4. Made me realize that I would be a pretty darn good psych nurse. I'm not sure

if that's where I'll end up but I felt really helpful at the psych facility. Although,

the nurses there were some of the worst I've ever seen. Really, they were like

something from a bad movie. Pretty scary.

5. I learned that I'm made of some tough stuff and that the ghosts from my past

have no impact on my future.

6. I lost almost all of the weight I gained during the first two semesters during the

summer break so, nursing school reinforced the importance of working out

regularly. Now, I'm on winter break so I can up my workout routine.

7. I've made some wonderful friends.

8. Nursing school has taught me that I don't have to have an A. If I study hard, and

know the material, but still get a B, oh well. I finished this semester with a B+ and

I'm happy.

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Specializes in OB.
How about with nice smoky (Islay type) Scotch + Trader Joe's Thai spiced peanuts. Heat from the peanuts (it includes dried kaffir lime leaves, lemongrass, and dried chile peppers - yum, yum), combined with the icy smokiness of the Scotch. :flamesonb

that will work- but not Cheetos and Burbon- thats pretty rough!

Since I started nursing school I have noticed I have an increased tolerance to additional servings of icy margaritas.

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Specializes in Skilled.

I think it all depends on the instrustors and support one has at home.I have strick, hard, tricky instructors and absolutely no support at home....in fact , there are bets that i won't finish the R.N. program ! That gives me even more incentive to do it !!!!!

I love it all--but that does not make it easy:o

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Nursing school taught me the value of time management. I had too few dollars and not enough spare hours to earn more. I discovered that I could earn more in tips as a waitress at a popular local nightclub than our charge nurses were earning in their salary. All I had to do as a waitress was smile sweetly, remember who got the Scotch and who got the bourbon, and not slop the beer in someone's lap.

:beer:

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Specializes in Skilled.

Retired R.N.----oh my gosh.....oh my gosh.

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