Second year nursing student and dreading going to placement all of the time...

Hi

so I'm second year and every time I have to go to placement I freak out.

I such an anxious person, not very confident either. I guess its cos I look young as well, around 15/16 when im actually 6 years older(someone said I look as young as 12 once). Patients will comment on this and patients family and it really gets me down. I don't want to seem incompetent and thats exactly how I feel. I'm considering wearing glasses to make myself seem older.

I get super nervous when talking to patient family members and doctors, I hate it. My heart rate always gets really high, I don't know whether i should go doctors to get my anxiety checked out?

At the moment I feel like i don't want to do nursing, I always talk to my friends about feeling like I don't know what I'm doing but no one shares the same feelings or not to my extreme it seems

I’m feeling this right now! Your situation has explained my situation to a T. I hope you stuck out your training I bet you’re a great RN now!

Feeling this way right now too🥲if you don’t mind me asking how did you deal with it? I have nearly finished first year and considering if I want to continue