Helena, Emilie and Thibault, who all three wished to remain anonymous, not only have their age in common – their twenties – and shared hope, but who “moves away”, they say with regret, to exercise one day the profession of nurse. They also have their own way of counting the training time during which they have “held” before throwing in the towel. Not in months or semesters, but in number of internships.
“I understood that I will not go much further after the seventh”says Helena, who is barely recovering from this internship, which ended at the end of January in an emergency department in New Aquitaine. “Too many stretchers in the hallways, too many patients waiting…” Her ” dream ” came up short: ” Thiss patients needed us to take care of them, to stay with them, they had lots of questions… And me, faced with that, I felt very alone, very unable to help them…”
Qualified nurses are present, “understanding”but in insufficient numbers to support it and to “go behind [elle] “. Her science baccalaureate and her courses, which she nevertheless thinks she has mastered, are not of much help to her, faced with the ” practical cases ” with which she finds herself confronted.
In April, a few months from completing her third and final year of studies, after another bad experience in oncology, Helena formalizes a break in training with her “IFSI”, one of 337 nursing training institutes which enroll nearly 100,000 students. “It wasn’t really a choice: I couldn’ts just more »she says.
“I hit a wall”
Emily, who has “everything stopped” in the middle of his second year of studys, in an IFSI in the Grand-Est, made his fifth internship, in general medicine, the” trigger “ : “I felt on my own, with too few tutors for too many students, like me, to supervise. I wasn’t advancing, I wasn’t learnings, and I knew that there would be, behind, the partials… I saw the delay accumulating. I was walking towards failure. Every day, I went a little more backwards. One day, I stopped going there. »
Holder of a health and social technological baccalaureate, she thought she had the “luggage” to succeed in this sector, one of the most requested on Parcoursup. “Nurse, I had always imagined becoming one…” She became disillusioned. “I ran into a wall, that of my limits, perhaps, but also that of a frenetic pace that makes you alternate weeks of classes and weeks of internship. What you are being asked to learn and do seemed to me to be inappropriate, much too heavy…”
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