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Nursing school enrollment pressure is rising (signals show students traveling out-of-state to access seats, [79]), while dropout rates climb due to overwhelm rather than academic failure. Simultaneously, hospital AI adoption is creating new oversight conversations, meaning nursing programs are under pressure to improve graduate retention metrics—making them willing buyers of mental health infrastructure tools that demonstrate measurable retention ROI.
Nursing students and new graduate nurses experience acute anxiety, shame spirals, and burnout within their first months—not primarily from knowledge gaps but from a lack of emotional scaffolding, peer validation, and real-time coping tools specific to clinical stressors like first mistakes, abusive supervisors, and patient death.
Nursing students in their first two clinical semesters and new graduate RNs within their first year of bedside practice
A mobile platform that combines structured peer-cohort circles (anonymized, moderated by licensed nurses or counselors) with micro-intervention prompts triggered by common high-stress nursing events—first medication error, first patient death, surgeon confrontations—delivering evidence-based coping techniques in under 3 minutes. The platform also tracks longitudinal emotional health and surfaces early burnout signals to students and (opt-in) program directors, enabling targeted support before dropout or license abandonment occurs.
The real-world evidence the pipeline drew on to generate this idea.
I made my first real fuck-up at work after about a year and a half of working acute care, and I need someone to tell me I’m not alone. I was messaging a doctor about my patient and getting orders throughout the night. Everything seemed completely normal. The doctor was even showing up on the patient assignment list, so I had no reason to think I was talking to the wrong person. Around 4 AM, my charge and I finally realized… this was NOT the patient’s doctor. 🤦🏻♀️ So basically, I spent the entire night communicating with the wrong physician and carrying out orders he gave me because I genuinely thought he was the correct provider. Obviously, I reported it to house supervisor and all that, and I’ve been replaying the entire night in my head like, HOW DID I NOT CATCH THIS?! 😂😭 Someone please someone tell me I can’t be the only one that has done something like this 😩 submitted by /u/Foreign_Snow_4460 [link] [comments]
Hi, I’m a new grad in med surg tele for about 3 months now. I have been feeling overwhelmed and stressed about this job. On my days off all I think about it work. And I cry almost every shift on my way home. I’ve been clocking out late almost every shift as well trying to catch up on charting because dayshift is super busy and my time management is not the best. It’s gotten to the point where I’m super burned out… (And yes, I’ve asked my boss to move to nights, and she told me that there’s no spots on nights). I’m not sure if my job sucks because I’m a new grad? Should I give it a few more months to gain confidence and get more comfortable? But it’s also got me thinking about if I should just quit and that I don’t even like bedside anyway. My friend who’s already reaching her 1 year experience of med surg told me that it gets tolerable with time, but she told the reason she kept going is because she found a reason/passion for her patients. She told me she feels fulfilled when she saves
Hello, I made a massive mistake and I can't stop feeling guilty and ashamed. The other day I was cardioverting a pt with a doctor because the pt had afib-rvr. I got the pt all set up, had RT in the room, and had extra people to help. We did a time out to confirm the pt, procedure, and their consent for the cardioversion. The doctor pushed etomidate, and the pt was sedated and was able to maintain airway. I was instructed to charge to 150J and to shock. My idiot self for some reason forgot to hit the sync button and delivered the shock. We instantly look at the defib monitor and the in-room patient vitals monitor. We also check for a pulse. The defib monitor and the in-room monitor both read NSR. EKG was done stat and confirmed NSR. The pt was closely monitored and thankfully returned to baseline. The pt was aox4, vitals signs stable, and maintained NSR. The doctor consulted cardiology and they said that the pt won't have any long-term adverse effects. Pt was able to walk and be dischar
I started my career in on a step-down ICU unit with 5:1 nurse patient ratios. I’ve always struggled with generalized anxiety disorder and major depressive disorder, I thought I had it well-managed before starting this job, but boy was I wrong. After my only 5 shifts of orientation, they set me free, and I quickly became acutely mentally unwell. I asked my manager if I could transfer to an “easier” unit, and she refused due to the nature of my contract. I couldn’t even apply to other positions because, due to my contract, they required my current manager’s permission for me to get a different job. My options were to either quit and be unable to afford rent or to just stick it out. At one point I was so suicidal I had an exact plan, means, and date to end my life. After calling in sick for a shift, I booked an appt with a therapist and found a doctor to do a med adjustment. I gradually felt a bit better, was no longer suicidal, but was still incredibly depressed. My contract was only 9 m
I work in a urology clinic. One thing we do as far as procedures is exchange chronic catheters for patients with chronic urinary retention. Most of these patients come in monthly and PRN. The nurses and staff alike all get to know these patients quite well. At my last shift we had received a call from the daughter of a chronic SPT patient reporting the patient had passed. When word got to me, I came unglued in a way i didn't expect. This patient was in their mid 60s. Quad with history of spinal cord injury, once fully independent. AxO 4 and just one of most genuinely kind and fun people I ever had the pleasure to know. Their life was very hard. But despite all the health issues and losing their independence, they were always kind and downright hilarious. Their transportation had often brought them to appointments late or not at all (several phone calls from our office reporting this had been made). When this patient came in, we would talk and joke like old friends. There were days they
I just started nursing school this week, and I'm already questioning whether I made the right decision. I would really appreciate advice from nursing students or nurses who have felt similar. For some background, I did very well in prerequisites like Anatomy & Physiology. My main way of studying has always been active recall/direct memorization. I would study PowerPoints, learn definitions and concepts, cover them up, and explain them out loud or write them in a whiteboard/piece of paper until I could recall everything. That worked extremely well for me.I finished all prerequisites with an A and Anatomy and Physiology 1 and 2 with over a 100% final grade. Nursing school already feels very different. There is a huge amount of textbook reading, material, assignments, skills, clinicals, and nursing-style questions where simply knowing the information doesn't always seem to be enough. I'm realizing that I have to learn how to apply the information and choose the "best" answer, and I'm worr
Need a 90% to pass, missed by 1 point. Found out this morning and feel like I’ve gone thru every stage of grief in the last 1.5hrs. Failed on a speciality I’m not even interested in, now I’ll be put back about 8 months (if I even pass the remaining courses lol). I can go back in 4 weeks for the next 5 week rotation (ADN program) but boy am I feeling discouraged. I know the logical answer is to just suck it up and move on, learn from my mistakes where possible. Just feeling pretty beat down you know. submitted by /u/ooglyboogly42069 [link] [comments]
I am kind of shitting my pants here and looking for any advice and insight. Can you guys tell me what your second semester clinical entailed and what the day to day tasks looked like? Did you have adequate help and supervision? what skills should I make sure I have nailed down before? What was expected of you? We will be at med-surg once a week for 8 hours starting week 1. We will be assigned a patient and just expected to be their “RN” for that shift and perform all RN duties. We will be primarily alone. We were told we just need someone per policy when passing meds or transferring. Our instructor will be around to help, but there is 10 of us and I know how hard to track down she will be. I also know how the nurses on the unit are busy and aren’t expecting to have to hold our hands. I am hoping my interpretation of what i’ll be doing is wrong.. I learn best by following example and having feedback and reassurance. I was expecting to at least have an experienced person to assist with b
Just feeling discouraged already. I got a 68 on a quiz today and didnt submit the correct ati module format and the instructor never messaged to clarify if she was still going to give me credit since it is the first 2 weeks.. that was on 2 assignments. Feeling overwhelmed. The ati module lessons are so much reading. Like 5 hours a piece.. it just isn't feasible. Im not great at math and screwed up on the math quiz today. Several of us did but I swear.. I struggled before in college and I just dont know. They took us to lab and didnt explain a thing and just were having us practice skills with zero instruction. I feel slow like im not retaining info. Idk what to do. submitted by /u/swimmingupstr3am [link] [comments]
Hi so I am in my first year of nursing school, and im getting my BSN. If you include pre-reqs, I am considered a third year. So my first ever nursing classes that I take this semester include fundamentals, health assessment, research, and integrative clinical strategies. From my understanding, research does not seem like the most tedious and stress inducing class. It is for the most part all group work with few reading quizzes. The lecture itself was horrendous for sure. It was 3 hrs long, but it actually could have gone for more. I already have to study for a quiz next week. Integrative clinical is a clinical class as well as lab skills combined into one grade/course. I find out more tomorrow and am too scared to check the syllabus. I have clinical Tuesday, and a lab skills day Friday. For fundamentals and health assessment, i have 5 exams each for both classes including the final. That is so unfamiliar to me. I do not know what to expect. Some of the exams for these classes overlap a
I know this is apparently common and I wanted to know how you guys who've experienced this cope with it. It's my first time in the O.R, basically I was about to serve the gloves to the doctor, but the doctor got really frustrated and snatched it out of my hands and the whole time throughout the surgery she just ranted about how I should just drop out, asking why I was still there and that I should just leave the room because I clearly have no skills. She wouldn't let me pass her any of the instruments, she'd just toss it back on the mayo table, told the scrub nurse supervising me not to let me help because she didn't trust me enough to be competent. So I just stood there the entire time just listening to her. I'm just thankful I didn't cry on the spot. How do you guys cope with this. To clarify because some people asked why I was allowed to scrub in: in the Philippines, it's required we do 10 major cases in the OR. 5 Scrub and 5 Circulating, depending on the institution it could be mor
I have 3 weeks left of my BSN program, including two comp exams. I failed the first with a 62 and have been studying every day for the past month and a half to try and pull out a passing grade on the next two. I need to make a 76 average between them. Logically I know this is super doable, but I've been so dejected from the first exam that I've struggled to have confidence in myself. I just accepted my dream job, but I feel like so much is riding on this that the pressure is insurmountable and that I can't be excited for it yet. Has anyone else been in a similar situation? How do y'all cope with inferiority complex and impostor syndrome? I've never been a person with test anxiety before, but I'm so scared right now. Do y'all have any tips and tricks for like... grounding yourself? submitted by /u/mothwingmirror [link] [comments]