I hate nursing school?!
Question: it is sooo difficult. can someone tell me how to cope with this stress and be a god mom and wife at the same time. thanks!
Answers: it is sooo difficult. can someone tell me how to cope with this stress and be a god mom and wife at the same time. thanks!
I know what you are going through, as I am a nurse practitioner and went through a rigorous nursing program as well! Good for you that you are trying. We need good nurses!
Here are my tips on how to survive nursing school:
1. Be organized
2. Don't try to accomplish everything at once
3. Scheduling projects and family ordeals helps (I had a thick planner on me at all times!)
4. Write down deadlines for projects (breaking them up helps)
5. Ask your spouse for support
6. It will get better, so be positive!
Good luck!
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Find another profession if you hate it.
I hate nursing school too! OMG I agree that it is very difficult, it takes up sooo much time and I have no social life and I am so glad that I graduate next year!!!!
-1. Remind yourself that school is temporary.
-2. Do something fun everyday with your family
-3. Make sure you are not taking too many hours
-4. Make sure nursing is what you want to do. It is a high stress job.
-5. Focus on the long-term--you should be making good money someday as a nurse.
Your doing something that you dont like...why continue?? If I were you I would consider changing my profession.
I have been there and done that. Are you getting any help from your husband? Family? When I was in nursing school, I had alot of help from my husband and family. When I started nursing clinicals, I was 4 months pregnant, had my daughter that summer restarted the fall, and the next fall I was pregnant again. I almost quit 2 different times, but I stuck with it, and it is so well worth it, finishing school, BSN.
I will ask, Do you hate nursing school? or You just don't have time to juggle school, mom, wife?
If you do not like hospital setting or 12 hour shifts, then nursing is not for you.
GOOD LUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If you hate nursing school you will most likley hate being a nurse. You might want to change fields before you have too much invested to quit.
But look at what you have when you complete the training. Stay with it, Hon.
talk to a peer counselor perhaps someone else in the field. We have several nurses in my family and from what I understand its a tough course to get through. Take a step back and look at what you really want. Is it the school you hate or are you really not happy with the career path? Talk to your husband and be honest about your feelings.
Perhaps theres something else in the medical field you'd be happier with. Get some help before you crack and drive your family nuts. I mean this with all the best. Sometimes we set out to try a new career and find out its not for us. good luck
See stress treatments, at ezy build, below on page 42. Study tips and memory improvement are in sections 13, and 41. Form study groups, to reduce workload. Practise daily, one of the relaxation techniques on pages 2, 11, 2c, or 2i; whichever works best for you, but the mindfulness breathing for 15 - 20 mns is ideal, although the progressive muscle relaxation can be learned quickly, and takes only several minutes, if pressed for time. Employ the EFT version for use in public, for which you can reasonably claim that you have a headache, as you massage/tap your temples, but it may be advisable to restrict yourself to subvocalising (saying it to yourself, in your mind, not aloud). Section 53, and pages 2, 2.q and 2.o refer. "Even though I sometimes suffer from stress, I deeply and completely accept myself". You can also multitask, using the gazing technique, as you walk/jog or exercise, by focusing on a distant object, noting any thoughts which flash across your mind, without pursuing any particular train of thought, just gently redirect your focus to the gazing. Yoga, or Tai Chi may suit others, better. For some people, visualisation of a quiet, relaxing scene, like a tropical beach, (feel the sun warming you, as a gentle breeze caresses your skin lightly, inhaling the tangy, salt laden spray from the sparkling, translucent, aqua waves, crashing on the white, sandy beach, as the seagulls swoop and cavort playfully overhead in a cloudless, azure sky; you feel just like one of them; free to soar and cartwheel, or just glide, in the moist, heavy air, and that this moment will last forever.....) works well for them. Take 4 Omega 3 fish oil supplements, daily, replacing 2 of them with cod liver oil supplements, or a teaspoonful of the oil (I spread mine on toast, and mask its strong taste with fishpaste, and pepper), in the winter months only, and eat healthily, in accordance with your "nutritional type" as determined at http://www.mercola.com/ SEARCHBAR. http://www.ezy-build.net.nz/~shaneris Try having a cup of "Tension Tamer", herbal tea (in supermarket tea aisles) from Celestial Seasonings, or make some at home, and cool, then bottle, and drink as needed (I find it so strong tasting, that I need to drink it quickly, followed by something like fruit juice, to take away the taste, but others may find it more tolerable). C(h)amomile tea is a more palatable option. As with all herbal/green teas, lemon, or a little sweetener is OK, but no cream, or milk. Get your partner to help out, more, and find parents nearby with kids your age, and you babysit for them, occasionally, and vice versa, allowing you both a break. Find out if Community Welfare dept. can help, possibly with respite care. Drink 2 - 4 cups of green tea, daily; if desired, with lemon, and/or a sweetener, (NOT ARTIFICIAL!!!) but no cream, or milk. Xylitol is preferable, (health food stores) or fruit sugar (fructose, such as "Fruisana", from supermarket sugar aisles) or even a little honey, because these will reduce "sugar spikes", which later deplete you of energy. Eat in accordance with your "nutritional type" as shown in www.mercola.com SEARCHBAR, and minimise/eliminate consumption of highly processed foods, particularly grain products, such as white bread, donuts, cake, cookies/biscuits, or anything with sugar. Opt for more wholefoods, non-starchy vegetables, and fruit. I'd take 4 Omega 3 fish oil supplements daily, replacing 2 of them with cod liver oil supplements in the winter months, (or, as probably a better alternative to the 2 cod liver oil supplements: 1 teaspoonful of cod liver oil, with a little butter, to ensure its use; I take mine on sourdough rye bread, or toast, covered with fishpaste, and pepper, to mask the strong taste). Those people who receive adequate exposure to sunlight, daily, won't need the vitamin D from cod liver oil, but many people, particularly those in latitudes far from the equator, find this difficult, to achieve. www.coolnurse.com & www.kidshealth.com may help you, later.
Maybe you can take it part time.
But you really need to think about if this is what you want to do. You are going to be liable for people's lives and educating them in a therapuetic manner. You will have to know which medicines have to be given over 3 minutes and which can be given IM.
This is a really stressful field with a lot of Bureucracy and long hours. If you work in a hospital it will be just as difficult as school. At least at school you don't have to be very patient with the mannequins.
Evaluate if this is where you want to be. If not, find something else.
If nursing is where you want to be then find strategies that work for you. Talk with your instructors, they've been through it. Join study groups. If your child is preverbal, you can practice your nursing with them. Use a child friendly voice and go through the steps of starting an IV, making the motions with your hands as you say stuff like, "And don't forget to tear off some tape!". It will allow you to spend time with your child and go over nursing stuff.
Go through the procedures as many times as you can. If you are learning to insert a catheter, go through it on the mannequin several times. Each time go through all of the steps, including washing your hands, donning gloves, explaining the procedure to the patient, double checking the order, lubricating the catheter, etc. This will help you on exams and in practice. It will help you understand why you do things.
Good luck with whatever choice you make.