What did Nursing school do to you? Drive you crazy? Make you cry?

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.

I talked to my mother about it and she told me "Sami that's why not everyone can be an RN". I feel like I could cry over little things and I feel so much LESS confident than I did during the 1st 2 years of the program. The first 2 years I had straight A's, now I have B's - which I don't care, but deep down it's like.... my best isn't good enough now. I put my ALL into this, and it's draining. very draining. And then I wonder if I will be the competent Nurse I imagined myself being 2 years ago

School is stressful, the medical field is stressful too. What you are feeling is overwhelmed and that is completely normal. I think everyone that is in the medical field has questioned their choice several times. Nursing and other medical programs are basically bullshit tolerance tests. There are "the way" things are done in school, and there are the REAL way things are done in the real world....and trust me, there are very few similarities. I think the reason the programs are so hard is to weed out the ones that are not strong enough to take it. Working with patients is very rewarding on some days and very frustrating on others. You will be confronted with problems that school never prepared you for and guess what? You will survive! My sister, graduated from RN school two years ago and she was feeling exactly like you are describing. By the way, she is an EXCELLENT nurse now and loves her job. Hang in there....it's almost over. I am a healthcare worker also and even on the hardest day, I cannot imagine doing anything else, EVER. It never gets boring.

All of the above. I'm in the same exact position you're in right now; graduating in May '07, had straight A's, now have a couple of B's. I think you'll surprise yourself in the end. You'll be fully prepared and competent when you graduate. Your mom is right, if it were easy, there wouldn't be a nursing shortage.