As an undergraduate pre-nursing student I was super nervous that I was the only one feeling this way. I made a separate survey for students who were waiting to get into the nursing program just like me and asked what emotions they were feeling as of right now. All of their answers were the same as mine. "trying to stay motivated, feeling like I am failing, and fast learning specifically anatomy" The relieving part of all these feelings is that these are completely normal. According to Wanda M. Chernomas and Carla Shapiro SDA (stress, depression and anxiety) is totally normal when starting in your career. Staying motivated part comes form the stress and anxiety. When both emotions are affecting a person, it can inhibit their execution in skills and learning new materials. Overall Nursing is super hard and can be stressful at times. In the end my participants said in the survey they are overall "proud of themselves, and excited to get started" The mental aspect of this profession can overtake the real reason a person is in the profession, but the reward is the reason most of these nurses that I have interviewed stick with it.
Cites: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24200536/ https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/XM7DSVB
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The first words that may come to peoples minds when they hear about the words "nursing school" people tend to lean towards the words, "stressful, hard, exciting, proud" I asked in a survey what is the most challenging part in nursing school. my participants said "super busy all the time, fast learning, and time management". All of them leaded up to saying the most challenging and most emotionally draining part of nursing program is preparing for the NCLEX. NCLEX is a state board exam for graduate nurses to get their state license. There are two sources I have found on what truly the NCLEX is The first source talks about the emotional part. According to Jennifer Roses and Karen Brown who wrote Emotional intelligence, the NCLEX is measuring how emotionally stable you are in high intense situations. No one wants a nurse who will start freaking out in the middle of their patient doing something unexpected. The next part of the NCLEX according to Angela G. Opsahl, the NCLEX is measuring how intelligent you are about the human body and the skills to be a well equipped nurse. Both components combined can be super stressful and hard to manage but majority of the nursing students I asked if they felt prepared they answered "I am ready but it is still a test that I need to pass"
Cite: https://bsu.summon.serialssolutions.com/#!/search/document?ho=t&fvf=IsScholarly,true,f%7CDiscipline,nursing,f%7CDiscipline,public%20health,f%7CLanguage,English,f%7CSubjectTerms,nursing,f%7CSubjectTerms,nursing%20education,f&rf=PublicationDate,2016-12-01:2021-12-01&l=en&q=NCLEX%20emotions%20&id=FETCHMERGED-LOGICAL-c3875-16401cae4c7957d5891e57680220343b52438f02e515a3e245d81b973793729c2 https://bsu.summon.serialssolutions.com/#!/search/document?ho=t&fvf=IsScholarly,true,f%7CDiscipline,nursing,f%7CDiscipline,public%20health,f%7CLanguage,English,f%7CSubjectTerms,nursing,f%7CSubjectTerms,nursing%20education,f&rf=PublicationDate,2016-12-01:2021-12-01&l=en&q=NCLEX%20emotions%20&id=FETCHMERGED-LOGICAL-13695-55d623d5a17ac66554323ecaf376ff7e032279e9e94959f4ff666b2ed2b4fa722 After a nurse graduates and passes the test NCLEX, the question now is "what next"? Many people may think you need to get a job and start making money but the emotions that a freshly graduated nurse feels can waver their decision. Here at Ball State I have created a survey for nursing students who are graduating just in three weeks. They have all expressed that they are very excited to graduate but when it came to the question of "are you ready to be a nurse" I got very different answers. I used the survey app called Survey Monkey and when I asked the nurses if they were ready to take care of patients by themself. some of their responses were that they "feel prepared but only in certain skills" others said "scared" and the last response was they are so excited to get started and that "their hard work paid off". Although these are a rang of responses non of them are wrong. I've linked my survey at the bottom so everyone can see what other questions I've asked them.
Cite: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/X38NLR6 In the last couple blogs we can see how nursing is challenging in many ways and can take a toll on mental health. The bad news is in this profession it is hard to avoid these feelings, but the good news is there are coping mechanisms that can help ease the stress and anxiety a nurse may be feeling. According to Hossein Ebrahimi website Emotional Support for New Graduated Nurses in Clinical Setting: a Qualitative Study they have studied what method of coping and relieving stress has worked for them. An example that I have taken from Ebrahimi's website is from section 3.1.4 from author Ebrahimi stating that reflecting on the situation that just happened is a way to calm yourself down and try to analyze your emotions. In one of Ebrahimi's participants asked herself "why was I treated that way". This is also one of the lessons that participant is slowly learning called "Nurse Skin". Nurse Skin is learning not take anything patients say to you personally. Nurses have to see the bigger picture and know that they are doing everything they can to help their patient even if their patient isn't the most compliant.
Cite: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5843442/ Hello my name is Lindsay Berning. I go to Ball State University and I am a freshman and currently in the pre-nursing program. As a Pre-nursing major I have already felt the stress and anxiety of learning the material. Nursing is known to be one of the harder majors to study in college. Even though there is a lot of positivity when talking about nursing, society brushes over the underlining topic of mental health. Why do nurses struggle with mental health? The answer is the time and effort this profession requires them to learn and then execute what they just learned. What do nurses do? In the journal article written by Danielle Sewers, Everlien de Graaf, and Saskia Teunissen they write about their studies on nurses and how much they have to know and how much they have applied in their lifetime being a nurse. Their studied have showed that "59% of the nurses felt that they were equipped with the proper knowledge" The reason this percentage was so low if because the nurses that answered no had a lot of anxiety and felt they couldn't think as quickly on their feet. Nurses have to learn extreme amount of knowledge in a little amount of time. Then they are expected to know how to execute these tasks. The whole point of Sewers, Graaf, and Teunissen's book is to "educate people and to show how anxiety is a real thing in nursing". In these next couple blogs I have posted readers will hopefully understand the real emotions that our nurses today are experiencing.
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