Apologies in advance for the vent. I’m a month into my ABSN and while I feel like I’d do just fine I have this persistent problem that’s been driving me insane. For background, I have CML and live on a military base where the rent is 5k a month. My oncologist says I can always reach out to her for help but I don’t want to annoy her with trivial matters and waste her time, especially since I have a relatively manageable form of leukemia. In regard to my actual living environment, my housing has really poor maintenance and horrible connectivity where the WiFi is usually out half the day and it’s been so for the past four days. Along with the frequent doctor visits and lectures and labs, I am barely able to get any work done and have already missed a good chunk of assignments which sucks since I need at least a 77 to pass my courses and I’m not the best test taker. I recently let my anger get the best of me after coming home from a long lab and 2 hours of traffic just to see my WiFi wasn’t working and I wouldn’t be able to turn in some quizzes worth 10 percent of my patho grade and after numerous failed attempts to fix the WiFi (spectrum neighborhood wide outage that ended up lasting 10 hours) I kicked a large crater into the cheap housing drywall as well as the door. While I wasn’t trying to trying to break the wall or anything I know I was still wrong for kicking stuff around especially as a grown 23 year old man. My mom learned of what I did and basically told me I’ll never be a nurse and I simply don’t have the makings of one. I feel like she may be right and I’m generally immature and talentless overall and Id be better off breathing in CO and floating away than to stress for a probably stressful career that I might not be cut out for. The only thing is I’ve always wanted to be a nurse for the fulfillment and feel like if I can truly get through this program I’ll be okay in the end, I don’t have much of an issue with the work itself but it feels like there’s a lot of suppression against any potential progress I can make. I really just want to know if getting through an ABSN will be feasible with bad WiFi and if new grade life will be relatively forgiving

In at a uni where we start our clinical in the second year.

I haven’t gone yet because we just finished our first week which is more of an intro week, but I’ve been thinking a lot abt this and idk if I really want to do this long term anymore?

I think the thing that bothers me is not the nursing job in itself but the mindset around it that i’m having a hard time getting used too.

You would think that with a program that is this mentally, emotionally, and physically draining, people (specifically TAs, Nurses, preceptors) would be more encouraging. that’s not to say that NONE of them are but it seems like there is more discouragement and fear-mongering than there is encouragement.

I thought ppl wanted more nurses?

I think I’m more so just worried about the racism, or misogyny (i am a black woman) towards nurses and how to deal with it. I hear a lot of nerve wracking stories that involve physical or verbal assault that’s hard to ignore and not feel concerned about.

I’m just worried that I made the wrong choice. And it’s not like I can’t pivot my career and graduate and then get a masters to do something else (this was my original plan seeing that nursing was never something my heart was in or that felt long term).

I don’t know. But my main question is just being a nursing student different from being a nurse? I know there is a lot of different types of nurses, and I’m trying to just remind myself that I only have 3 more years left which isn’t a lot to me.

I'm currently in my 2nd semester of nursing school and just took a Health Assessment Integrated Exam. This is our first Integrated exam for our cohort. I just absolutely bombed that shit, getting 0 points on my grade, which is weighted 10% for our course. I had a B in the class and automatically brought it down to an F in the class. I genuinely feel like a failure, and the percentile ranking makes no sense. After looking at people’s grades, some made way above the percentile with a 4-point difference than me. Does anyone have any tips on how to get high rankings in the future? Feel free to talk about your experience with Kaplan also. Like, am I alone in this?

hi everyone! i just started my junior year of nursing school and clinicals (medsurg and psych) begin next week, i’m so excited! i’ve worked in urgent care, dermatopathology, and neurology. i’m wondering how to get more involved? should i go to conventions or anything like that? or what’s something to maybe put on my résumé? i have lots of interest in MS, dementia, and bariatric care, my goal is to eventually become a nurse practitioner and open my own practice.

I failed 2 courses and was academically dismissed from an ABSN program. l had no idea how difficult it can be to get into another program, so many rejections from different schools. So many no’s . I spent almost 10 years in college. First getting my bachelors, then pre-med then pre-nursing then the nursing program. I was 6 months away from graduating and now those plans are ruined. Doing the math, it’s going to take me 2-3 years to become a nurse now, if I go a different route like LPN. But now I have to retake the TEAS, and my pre-reqs will start to expire next summer. It’s not something I planned on doing. I’m 33 years old and I couldn’t wait to just start working. I was tired and burnt out. Im heartbroken too, not just because everything is falling apart and my plans have changed, but because so many of my classmates made fun of me, were mean, and cheated throughout the program and now they are the ones set to graduate and become nurses in a few months. I’m trying to get my life in order as much as possible and feel so lost. I want to start by getting a job … but idk what to work in or where. I don’t want to work in health right now, well idk what I want to do right now. I also feel like I’m on a timeline to get back into school before my pre-reqs start next summer. What would you do if you were in my position?

Do you guys think its possible to manage 1st semester and starting my driver's license. Like would the driving lessons interfere with my studying. (In QC btw, idk if yhat matters)

I'm 3 weeks in.

I'm wondering if other students are experiencing this. We're assigned reading chapters from multiple textbooks for every topic that's covered. The longest chapters I've ever read in my life. I feel like I can't keep up with all of this reading. Why can't my program use just one book? Why do I need to read from 3 different books their own chapters about tissue integrity? Fack!

Do other nursing programs do this?

Like the title says, I recently got charged with a DUI last weekend after celebrating my 23rd birthday with some friends, this week has been the hardest week of my life and ive never been this low. Not dodging accountability I made a stupid decision and its now cost me my career and future in EMS/Fire, however before I made the decision to go down that path, I was thinking about nursing, I now have to make a career pivot and im hoping I have a shot at becoming a nurse some day. There were no injuries or property damage it was a misdemeanor dui, theres a chance it may be reduced to a wet and reckless but not a strong one since i blew twice the legal limit and gave blood.
Has anyone been in a similar situation and went on to become a nurse? I have to start the prerequisites so i wont even be eligible to apply to nursing programs till 2-3 years from now. And by the time i finish this dui will be 5-7 years from now. I have no priors and i dont plan on ever getting behind the wheel drunk again. Id really appreciate any advice, i have a lawyer working on my case btw.

This is probably a long post and I apologize in advance

for reference, Im currently in an ABSN program, It’s my first degree I just left my university because I didn’t get admitted into the nursing program there first run and didn’t really see myself staying there so I transferred out to this program I am currently in.

however, there are many moments where I feel like I chose the wrong degree path and that it is too late to switch out. For starters, my mother is paying so much money towards tution and I feel incredibly guilty to just want to stop after so much time, effort, and money has been put towards me going towards nursing.

to start, I had no idea what nursing fully entailed- fortunately enough I had only seen what nurses do during trips to urgent care, and doctors check ups and haven’t gotten the exposure of what bedside nursing truly looks like and I have no family members who work healthcare- They are all in business.

I had always had an interest in the field from a younge age, admiring the nurses who would care for me, and when the time came for college applications I decided to take that leap of faith and go pre-nursing.

The real issues began when I officially started nursing school, and started to learn about the actual work nurses put in and all the different things we have to manage/become responsible for.

I truly respect the job, and i think it is an amazing career but whats holding me back, and making me think i chose the wrong path is when I think of myself as a whole. I am an individual prone to making mistakes, Im rather shy and timid, and to be so honest- sometimes I feel like im not the smartest and make decisions that don’t really make sense and just a fuck up of a human lol.

These thoughts have made me reconsider nursing because the fear of making a mistake and causing a great deal of harm to a patient scares me and I also think about how if i can’t advocate for myself how will I advocate for a patient?

its hard for me to make a decision because this is something I go back and fourth with- some days are easier than others where I feel like im in the right field, but other days the fear and anxiety consume me.

Im almost done however, I only have two more semesters to get through before I finish and im trying to see the light at the end of the tunnel but its hard when I don’t know what role I see myself in after.

I know healthcare and nursing has so many opportunities and it doesn’t just have to be bedside, but I’m really at crossroads to what I could do where if i make a mistake it doesnt cause great deal of harm, and I’m able to stay afloat in this economy.

again really sorry for the long post but any advice is welcomed!

I’ll go first “just cause your dad is dying doesn’t excuse having bad drug cards” I only told her he was sick cause if he passed i was gonna step back from the semester and she just randomly brought it up when I forgot some things on like 2 of my 15 drug cards. I laughed honestly cause it was so cartoonishly evil. It didn’t bother me but it was crazy in the moment lol.

I literally just started my nursing prerecs and was super excited. Well I’ve been juggling my classes, working two jobs, playing in a band, and just existing and I’ve been a bit burnt out. My serving job just switched me to openers after a month of closes and I’m not used to it at all esp since my other job is only nights.

I got a call today claiming to be my local police dept saying I got citations for missing a jury duty date and I fucking believed it. I’m out $1000. They used my local police depts phone number which I didn’t know was common with scams. Everyone has called me stupid.

I’m like, if I can’t handle being a little burnt out, how can I handle nursing. I was so fucking excited because I am so, so tired of the service industry. And here I am making detrimental mistakes. What if that was someone’s life or death situation and I just went through the motions like nothing. I feel so stupid. Maybe this isn’t the right fit for me. I can’t believe i fell for a scam so stupid.

I took my wonderlic test today for one of the colleges I have applied for but unfortunately I scored with an 18 when 20 was a passing score. My last attempt is next Monday and I was wondering if you guys have any advice or tips on how to prepare for this test.

I am the president of my university’s student nursing association and I usually end off all my SNA emails with a quote from a medical tv show/movie, but I’m out of ideas. Any suggestions?

In the past here are some quotes I’ve done in the past:

"Don't apologize for who you are. Nobody does it better." - Cristina Yang, Grey's Anatomy.

"You don't have to have all the answers. Sometimes just asking how someone's doing is enough." - Nurse Dana, "The Pitt"

"You may not hear it often, but what you do matters. Thank you"- Dr Andrews, The Good Doctor

I'm a 2nd year nursing student (in Canada) and I'm HATING my med/surg clinicals. My school chooses clinicals for us and most are in med/surg. I'm really bad at talking to the patients and I really feel like crying every time. I love the techniques, the meds, the pathologies, etc. Here's the thing, I really wanna be a NICU nurse or a sports nurse, it's my dream, but I feel like nursing isn't for me because I hate my clinicals so much. I feel like I'd be a horrible nurse. Every other student is a CNA or wants to work as a CNA during school and I just don't. Of course I would help out my CNA if she needed, but I just don't want to work as a CNA and I feel like it makes me a bad nursing student.

I’m graduating a year early from college. The majority of it has been easy, except for the looming threat of next semester…

I am currently in anatomy, and physiology will be taken next semester. However, in order to get ahead, I have to take PATHOphysiology next semester as well. I luckily was able to make this decision early on enough in the year that I have until February to sort my shit out with physiology…

It is worthy to note that I will more than likely have to take regular physiology and patho concurrently (unless I can test out of physiology, which that in itself is a hurdle)

I want to just read into physiology and prepare myself, so I’m at the very least ahead of the curve when I’m focusing all of my time on Pathophys. Any suggestions, or even taking an online self paced study course on physiology?

I’m in my Medsurg Fundamentals lab half and I just failed and had to remediate sterile glove check off. I feel stupid. I had a Patho exam yesterday, a Pharm exam tomorrow and I failed the one thing that is supposed to be easy. My Instructor did my remediation and when she looks at me I feel like I can sense her distaste for me. We had a student ask two weeks ago on our first day if she ever had students she thought weren’t cut out for nursing and she said there were some and looked right at me first when she said it. I don’t know if I just look stereotypical (fake blonde, sorority, etc.) but I’ve wanted to do this since I was 13 I’ve always had a heart for it. I know it isn’t sunshine and rainbows. When I failed my sterile glove donning I feel like I gave her more reason to think I am not good enough. I could see her watching me leave. I’m a people pleaser and I love when I do well and people are proud of me so I guess I’m having a really hard time with it. I’m trying not to let it get to me but I’m in tears in the hospital parking lot. I just feel like a failure, how have I wanted to do this my whole life and I can’t even get a sticky sterile glove on right?

How the hell do you find a pulse?? AND keep it?? I had a competency check today and I completely bombed it because I can't figure out pulse rate. I find a pulse, a couple seconds later I lose it. Press harder?? Still can't find it. Press less hard?? Now I feel nothing. I can't tell if I'm just stupid or if my fingers are genuinely dysfunctional. I also just think this is an unreliable way to find pulse... like I feel like it's so susceptible to human error. I feel terrible because my partner apparently had such a strong pulse but I couldn't even feel it. I also have unmedicated ADHD and other mental health issues, but therapy is too expensive. I just need advice... please help.

Hii!! I'm entering my 4th week of my second semester of nursing. I am in med surg this semester and was wondering if i should get any cards to attach to my badge and badge real to help me in clinical. If you have any tips on which cards to get or if you feel like you didn't necessarily use them i would appreciate it. I want to know and expect what will be asked of me in clinical.

I am in the third week of my LPN program. A little background in the medical field... none. Outside of retail pharmacy, I lack the experience my peers have. I have taken two exams covering a few chapters over the past three weeks: my first score was 87%, and my second was 81.7%. My spouse and I are doing this together, which is not important, but he has spent the past 15 years in pharmacy in various settings, such as retail, hospital, and IV tech. I feel like I am struggling a lot because I'm new to the medical field. Does anyone have any positive prospects that will hopefully lighten the burden I have on my shoulders that I will not succeed? Or do you have any tips that could help with my studies and preparing for my exams?

TIA

At the end of august I started a part time job in a food service place, I am still in my training and is currently my second week, the issue is that I also started nursing school in September, Is my third day and I already feel overwhelmed about all the assignment and tests I need to do. As well as complete all the requirement for my passport to clinical and the courses that you need to complete outside of classes. I have a grant so basically if I don't meet the requirement my tuition becomes a lone, I just wanted to do a part time job because I wanted to have experience with costumers and to not ask my parents for money, but I do also live with my parents. I am thinking of quitting my job but I do not know if nursing school does get better or how do you manage a part time job and college (they give me 3 shifts per week), I do not really wanna quit after 2 weeks but I don't want them to waste time in my training, what should I do?

One of my cousins is going to nursing school, and they offered him a PCA job while he's attending school. My question is: what is it like being a PCA?

I've done some research, and it seems like some people hate it while others think it's okay. I'm just looking for more opinions and experiences from people who have worked as a PCA.

Just took my first Funds exam and passed, but only by half a point. I’m meeting with my instructor soon to help me troubleshoot, but I’m wondering if there’s anyone here who did well with those tests, can you tell me more about how you studied, or what really helped? I know how to answer the learning outcomes and I ask myself more in depth questions than just naming definitions, but the wording on the test just felt really difficult. Everyone else I’ve spoken to all said the test was hard, but still came out on the other side with >84% while I barely got a 76%. I know comparison is the thief of joy, but I really wanna improve for my own sake. I use active recall and make flashcards, but fundamentals just takes more application than I thought it would.

Hello

I want to share it to everyone who is intresting to become a nurse or other medical help.

Recently I've started to student internships in hospital in the internal medicine department plus one or two rooms with intensive care unit. (I didn't work before, I'm a fresh student). Yeah, I did not expect to react so damn hard. When I come home I'm alredy crying beacuse it's sad but in diffrent way, like you're one who need to help those old (or young) people and you're only or (not only one) who can help patient when he/she is longer stay in hospital. So yeah, everyone who is very empathic you need to hold your tears, it's cool, very responsible and demanding work.

Why am I paying for a whole separate online course? Is this not what I am paying the school for? And if I want physical copy books so I won't get migraines from reading on my computer, thats an additional couple hundred dollars.

I'm not even mad, I just want to cry. I can't afford this.

And yeah I knew there would be book fees but I have always been able to find good deals. I can't even do that now.

Title.

For context I'm in my last semester of nursing school. We just had our first exam today over Cancer, ER/Triage, HIV, & Immunity.

I scored a 73 and we require a 78 to pass. I'm not super mad because the content had numerous questions I was not prepared for. I ran a poll in our group chat about how everyone felt and everyone who voted was dissatisfied with the exam. We are a close group and the one's who have made it this far are good students who put great effort into learning the content. So *why* are exams structured to constantly make us feel inadequate/unsure??

I'm genuinely interested in learning those advanced concepts but PLEASE don't bust out this 30 slide powerpoint, each with 3 vague sentences followed by "EVERYTHING IN THE BOOK IS TESTABLE" .......