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Kristen, prompted

November 4, 2021

Something I feel uncertain about

Kristen looking confused.

I don’t feel like this all the time, but every now and again, I think things like:

What if I get my R.N. and then it turns out that I actually hate being a nurse?

What if I hate having hours dictated to me after all these years of self-employment?

What if I don’t actually end up having compassion for my patients?

What if all the charting/paperwork is too annoying?

Or what if I get into nursing school and school becomes super overwhelming?”

It’s impossible to know the future, but it IS possible to look at what I know about my past, and that can help inform the future.

So.

I know that I am a good student and I know that I can handle a pretty heavy class load (I did 17 credit hours my first semester in college and still got good grades), so I think I can handle nursing school.

On the compassion front: I can look back through my life and see lots of situations where I had compassion for people who needed help. If that’s been true in the past, it will likely be true in the future as well. Plus, I can choose a field of nursing where I think compassion will come more easily (I don’t think I would have as much compassion working in a cosmetic medical field as I would in a more medically-necessary field.)

I know I will be annoyed by the excessive charting work, but I also know that I am able to see that everything has upsides and downsides (nothing is perfect!) and I know that I have been able to hang in there with the annoying record-keeping that homeschooling and self-employment involve.

I think I will be ok on the working hours front because I have the freedom to be picky about what jobs I take. If I don’t like the environment or the hours, I can always switch jobs.

And that’s how I talk myself down from my worries!

What’s something you feel uncertain about?

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  1. JD says

    November 04, 2021 at 7:38 am

    I’m uncertain about my future, which – aren’t we all?

    But with my husband now living in assisted living, which is eating into my savings, a precarious Social Security future, two autoimmune diseases and the winding down of the years in which I will be able to earn an income, I have to wonder what my own future looks like. It’s at this point that I hold onto Proverbs 3:5-6!

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  2. Gina says

    November 04, 2021 at 9:18 am

    I’m very uncertain about my future life as a widow. How will I cope with all of the things? It makes me feel overwhelmed to think on it. I have to remind myself often that I don’t have to learn everything in one day, nor make decisions about some big things right this minute. I’m giving myself a LOT of grace.

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  3. Ruth T says

    November 04, 2021 at 11:07 am

    I’m uncertain about what I’ll do after all of my kids are in school. Years ago I assumed I’d go back to work full-time, but now I see that it’s probably unrealistic for that to be a good choice for my family. Do I work part-time with set hours? Do I volunteer? Do I do something like Shipt shopping with flexible time? I have no idea, but I just hope that my husband and I are completely on the same page about whichever direction we go.

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  4. sfeather says

    November 04, 2021 at 11:42 am

    My daughter (R.N., B.S.N.) HATED charting, care plans, etc. (basically the “paper” work of nursing) when she was in nursing school. She is now a clinical manager and a large majority of her job is….wait for it! PAPER WORK! Ha! For whatever reason, she now loves doing this part of her job. She says it is a surprise to her too, but she really enjoys doing her care plans and such. So…you never know!

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  5. Nan says

    November 04, 2021 at 2:24 pm

    I’m uncertain whether this # 3 Covid shot will protect me better. My Covid antibodies from first 2 shots are unusually low. No one can say why.
    Just a word re nursing charting. At least you know have the aid of computers. In the “olden days” when I was young in nursing, it was all handwritten so what you will face won’t come anywhere near that. So take heart!! Compassion is a character trait sublime and I don’t think you can ever turn it off !

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    • Jen says

      November 05, 2021 at 3:55 am

      Lol. I can still chart WAY faster and MUCH more accurately “by hand” than by computer! The drawback is “accessibility and portability” has made everything different; I get that. But I’m still so very frustrated!
      Nursing now is so unlike when I started (late 1970s), and I so remember my Mom saying to me at that time that nursing was nothing much like it was for her when she started in the 1950!

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