The First Year As A Nurse …

Is hard!

You aren’t meeting expectations, you’re running your feet off trying to keep up, the learning curve is Mount Everest and you don’t know all the little things that make the day run smoother (like what transfer form to use, where to best capture something on one of a million computer programs, etc).

You worry about small clinical decisions and wonder what your missing of the disease progression while you’re making decisions.

You go home, try to unwind, and can never get work out of your head. You dream about it, think about and worry non-stop. And the day you finally get yourself into a non-work head-space is the day you have to go back.

Some days I feel like I need to go back to school.

2 comments:

  1. I use to think nursing was such an easy profession until I started studying it. I have so much respect for nurses! Proud of you!

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  2. I hear ya sister! Hang in there. It does get better :)

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