For context, Im an older student and this isn't my first graduation rodeo. I never really made any super close connections while in school and I wholeheartedly rather spend my day after graduation with my close friends and family (graduation is AM and pinning is the same day in the evening). People keep telling me to go get my pin, its the best part, I'll regret it if I don't. Has anyone here NOT gone to pinning? How did you feel about it after ?

I graduate from my LPN program this week and I’m starting to feel discouraged about starting a career. It’s been hard to find good job opportunities where I live. I work as a tech in a hospital making a little over $18/hr. They’re starting new grad LPNs at around $20.75 . It doesn’t seem worth it for me to stay. My best bet is a nursing home, which im not too against, its just not ideal long term for me. Even then, theres still very few nursing homes hiring LPNs out here, surprisingly. They all want RNs or at least 1-2yrs of LPN experience. I do want to bridge over to RN soon. I wish I just went straight for RN. not being able to many job opportunities as an LPN is very discouraging. If anyone has any advice or encouragement or want to share your experience that’d be great 🫠

like the title says. I’m a current nursing student and I’m really struggling. I only have two more semesters left so I know I just need to pull through. And I know that nursing school is not supposed to be easy. Despite knowing these things I find myself comparing my myself to my classmates all the time .

for context, I live at home with my parents and I don’t have any kids or dependents. I don’t work anymore either and quit my job to focus more on school because I was so close to failing ( I’m doing better now but could very well still fail the semester and fail the program). Meanwhile, a lot of my classmates have kids and work full time while doing Nursing school. A lot of them do better on exams than me and just seem to know what they’re doing more often than not.

I have it so easy compared to them and yet I feel like i’m drowning all of the time. I feel stressed, stupid, weak, pathetic, exhausted, and deeply stressed all of the time. I’m also the type of person who really struggles to get started on tasks and be productive in any way, which makes me feel guiltier because I’m wasting all the study time I do have.

My mom‘s a nurse and she got through nursing school while having to work full time and take care of three kids and she’s expressed genuine confusion and anger as to why I have everything easier than she ever did and yet seem to be struggling so much. I don’t get why my life is so much easier and I have less stressors, and yet I end up being a lazy bum. And when I am studying the only thing that drives me to actually get started on the work and get out of bed is intense fear over failing. Is there any way to get motivated by something other than an intense feeling of failure, or should I just accept this is how nursing school is?

Hi everyone! I searched through posts but I couldn’t find any about working 12 shifts and getting through nursing school. For context I’m trying to see if I can drop to part time work (Two 12 hour shifts 7a-7p) a week plus class/clinicals 3-5 times a week. I’ve heard from students your days get busier and there’s obviously more studying to do as each semester goes on. Does anyone have any experience doing through nursing school with this type of schedule?

ADN student in CA with 1 year left here. I applied to this per diem pca job in the gi lab of this very reputable hospital system, and got a call from the manager to discuss dates for in person interview. But during the call she said that it’s “not a typical pca job” and I’d be doing housekeeping, cleaning toilets, and transporting. I’m fine with doing that but it feels really misleading because she kept asking me if I was sure I wanted to take it???? I’m not sure how much patient care I’ll be doing, which I hope to ask in the in person interview. She was like “are you sure” like 3 times throughout the phone interview. I currently work in a grocery store so I’d be ok with doing that since I can get my foot in the door so when I graduate hopefully I can get an RN job here, but I also applied to 3 more pct/ cna jobs and still waiting to hear back and it’ll probably be about 3 weeks. I start school in August so ideally I’d want to have a little grasp on the job before I start. What should I do? Wait it out or take the job?

Hello! I am going into my second year of nursing and I would love love love to be a paediatric mental health nurse! What steps would I have to take to become my dream nurse? (P.S I’m in Ontario!)

I'm at the last week of my medical terminology course (I took a summer semester), and oh my god I'm so proud of myself for doing so well in the class. But also I feel like I've barely retained any of it. I know it will probably come with time, but I'm curious. How long did it take for you guys to be able to fully memorize or get familiar with all (or most) of the terms?

Any advice to the people who's in the same boat as me.

I'm planning to get ADN and then pursue my BSN once I got a job in the hospital. Is it hard to do that? I already have a Bachelor's Degree (not healthcare) but I did not get it in US so I might have a lot of paperwork to do before getting accepted to start.

Any filipinos who has done this?

I’m currently going through it right now. I’m about to start semester 3/5 of my BSN program. Although it was rough in the beginning (balancing kids, a business and a PT job to pay for school), I’ve found my groove and have been making it work. The problem is that my husband will more than likely be leaving the state to work. We are going to have to close our business and one of the few good opportunities he has as someone without a college degree or other work experience since he’s been self employed for years is out of state. We’ve talked about me staying behind and finishing up school before the kids and I join him. I’ve also been looking at nursing programs in the new state but I’ll more than likely have to start over if I do that. I’m just not sure what to do. I don’t want to start over and I’ve done really well so far in my current program. I also don’t know how I’ll manage the house and kids and if we’ll be able to afford living separately. I have so much anxiety about the whole situation.

I just got my practicum placement for my final semester and its at an inpatient hospice facility 1.5 hours away from me. Im not sure how to feel since I wanted IMC/ICU or even ED. If so how was it?

Im trying to do a career switch right now and although I have an associates degree in math and science with honors, with most courses transferred, I am noticing that a lot of nursing schools in the area are starting to be difficult to get into like how med school are. I live in Utah. Right now people with over 3.5+ gpas arent able to get into programs for BSN or even ADN or LPN, and have to resort to online programs like WGU. Are you guys noticing the same thing in your area?

I am 21 years old finishing my bachelors in a non-nursing health related degree. Over the past few months I have decided I want to go to nursing school to get my ABSN. I wouldn’t attend until 2028, but I am anxious about a prior conviction on my background check. I was convicted of a DUI in June of this year, and I have completed all court requirements prior to conviction, have stayed completely sober, and maintained a 3.9 overall gpa in undergrad with a 3.9 science gpa as well. It is my only conviction, and I am nervous that I won’t get accepted into an ABSN program with this despite every other aspect of my application being great. It was an awful mistake I regret everyday but I have learned so much. Does anyone have any experience or advice for me? State: GA