Nursing students walk around in a constant state of fear. In clinical or in class, always… forever… afraid. The nursing faculty takes pride in the fact that they can make us want to cry, vomit and possibly pee our pants all at the same time. Especially our autocratic leader… Oh do they ever love to torture us and eat our souls. At times you feel like yah maybe they’re doing this because they are teaching us to be tough and understand that this is what the work world is like. HA! They love to watch us squirm. And now that we finally have some chance to take a breather in our fourth and FINAL year because we’re almost there! they just have to find some way to scare the pants off us. We have a registering exam that is at the end of all this… if we don’t pass we don’t nurse plain and simple. However, to prepare for this exam we have to study everything we’ve learnt in the 4 years of schooling. The prep books we can buy are actually pretty simple and easy. But just to put the fear in us they make our exams (the exam prep practice exam) ridiculously complicated with convoluted questions that make no possible sense.
I have a roommate who is now in her 1st year of this and I can see that they haven’t changed a thing since my first year.
Finally possibly reaching the end of this makes me excited, but with all these scary comments and exams it makes it seem like it’s impossible to reach it. Like I won’t make it and I won’t pass.
With all the fear and anxiety I’m still surprised I’ve made it as far as I have….. make no wonder there’s a nursing shortage and all the units are short staffed…..
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