Worst semester ever!

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I am happy to report that I have survived my worst semester of Nursing School so far. I cried more in the past week from stress and exhaustion than I have cried in a long time. Then I cried tears of relief when I got my final grade for the semester. Now I'm going to sleep for three weeks before I start my LAST semester of school! Woohoo!!

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Specializes in Heme Onc.

Hi, Every day of my life in nursing school, was the worst day of my life.

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Specializes in Critical Care, Education.

You poor babies. If you hate nursing school so much, I am very concerned about your ability to cope with the real world of nursing practice. Just as much (if not more) stress & the stakes are so much higher.

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Specializes in ICU Stepdown.

I'm glad you got through it :) However, you might want to learn how to deal with your stress. Don't spend ALL of your time with school; you're going to get through it much easier if you make time for yourself. Burning out sucks and it just makes things harder and more miserable.

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You poor babies. If you hate nursing school so much, I am very concerned about your ability to cope with the real world of nursing practice. Just as much (if not more) stress & the stakes are so much higher.

You cannot be serious right now. And you're a "Guide" for this site?

Congratulations on successfully completing a very difficult semester! You'll be an RN so soon and it will all be worth it!

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Specializes in Nurse Leader specializing in Labor & Delivery.

Congratulations! You're very close. Take a nice break and try to do nothing school related for a while. :)

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You poor babies. If you hate nursing school so much, I am very concerned about your ability to cope with the real world of nursing practice. Just as much (if not more) stress & the stakes are so much higher.

Thanks for being concerned but I can handle my stress. And I never said I hated nursing school. My job I have now is a high stress job and I cope just fine with it. It was the stress from a horrible (and extremely short) semester with a faculty change in the middle of the semester. Surely you cried a few times in nursing school.

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I'm glad you got through it :) However, you might want to learn how to deal with your stress. Don't spend ALL of your time with school; you're going to get through it much easier if you make time for yourself. Burning out sucks and it just makes things harder and more miserable.

I deal with my stress. It was just a rough semester. I work 40 plus hours a week and go to school. That would be stressful for anyone. Yes, I am burned out and that may make it more miserable, but I haven't met a nursing student yet who hasn't gotten burned out.

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Specializes in Heme Onc.
You poor babies. If you hate nursing school so much, I am very concerned about your ability to cope with the real world of nursing practice. Just as much (if not more) stress & the stakes are so much higher.

I too worked through nursing school...beyond full time. I'll take your condescending "concern" for my "real world of nursing" (working 1 job and having a life) over nursing school (3 classes a week, 3 clinicals a week, a paper a day, an exam every week, and working full time with a mortgage hanging over my head).

I unlike springchick1 DID hate nursing school, It sucked, I passed with honors and have moved on, as I am fully entitled to. Congrats springchick... there's more than light on the other side of the tunnel.

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Specializes in Medical-Surgial, Cardiac, Pediatrics.

Congrats! I remember the last semester being the most stressful, oddly, just because SO much was riding on that last stretch.. Good luck!

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Yay for you! I had a semester like that...a heavy course load + one of the clinical instructors was, shall we say, excruciatingly unpleasant + dealing with running back and forth to the hospital because my dad was gravely ill (which also led to issues with my daughter who has high-functioning autism) = super happy when that semester was over. So I totally get what you're saying! Sometimes life whacks you in the back of the knees...just gotta keep running :D

Good luck with your last semester!

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Specializes in Telemetry/PCU.

Congrats on being in your last semester. You have almost made it thru

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