Becoming A Nurse

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Challenges of working and studying to become a nurse!
Getting to understand what the field is truly about and some sacrifices you must be willing to make. Also being able to balance studies classes. There are challenges for me being at home and having kids at home to take care of. This is big issues due to most people hate having these around them. It has given me issues in many ways.
Long working hours are issue in some ways. Like having to spend all day working on your feet with no rest and be bossed around by your supervisor for many hours. You can do many things right but the supervisor may never give you any credit. Being there for so long is very tiring and can feel like forever if you are not doing anything. Although in some cases it
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This will help keep organization when you need something from a certain class. The main key would be organization. It is going to be very useful it will always keep you up to date on notes and activities for your course. This will help very much for this challenge.
I have children at home I have to take care of. Due to this I have to keep my studies up while having to worry about being a mother to my children. It is hard to do this because of all the things needed to be done around the house. It makes my plan on becoming a nurse hard on me. A lot of people will have this issue when having to worry about all these things. It causes so much stress mentally when you think so much of what if I do become a nurse how will I fit everything in. I have been through so many trails during my studies on becoming a nurse.
These are some of the challenges you will meet when working on becoming a nurse. They will be a very hard in the beginning but once you get everything down to understanding. It will not be as hard to understand and come to abiding by them. There is always a reason behind most of these things. You just must find them. These are some of the challenges being faced. Hopefully you can find a way to better understand and go along with them if you want to become a

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