I could title this post “the same thing happens every week.” Every week, I get through classes and arrive poised on the brink of clinicals with the worse attitude you ever saw. I’m pissed off at everybody and everything and want to quit school (in a huff, if possible). Every week, I am instantly energized and excited about nursing the second I arrive at a patient’s bedside.
Do I recall this from week to week? No.
It must be brain damage caused by extreme tiredness…
Maybe it’s just what you need—-patient contact. That’s what it’s really about, right? The rest is just BS, trying to see if you can make it–like boot camp. At least that’s what I hear, no real life experience myself. Hang in there!!
That does seem to be it: trial by fire. I just don’t see WHY it needs to be made so terrible. I can’t help thinking there would be a lot more nurses if nursing education weren’t made needlessly difficult. It’s difficult enough just with stuff that needs to be complicated and thorough. Why make it worse? Still, again I say I’m glad I have my job. It wears me out, but I do like working with the patients and it probably keeps me from actually giving up (as opposed to frequently feeling like giving up).