Mar 08, 2008 07:55 AM - Very good article. Thank you so much for that helpful information as I will be needing it come August when I graduate! No wonder the nurses don't always have much to say to us, they're EXHAUSTED!

Mar 08, 2008 07:59 AM - Yes, Spookycat. It's almost like you are trying to make it through some kind of initiation or something. Let's see what they're made of!!

Mar 08, 2008 01:16 PM - Hey you all! I found a great article on Monster.com about being a stand out nursing student. Check it out. By the way, thanks for all the nice remarks. Bugaloo

Mar 08, 2008 01:30 PM - Hi there,

I'm soon to be a graduate nurse, in my last semester now, and reading your comments/suggestions was a pleasure!! Thanks for taking the time to share your observations.

Mar 08, 2008 02:50 PM - JerseyGuy,
Thank you.

Mar 09, 2008 03:47 PM - Thank you for this article...I am a new nurse...I havent found a job yet.....but this will help me dearly!!!!

Mar 09, 2008 04:18 PM - "I am afraid of getting walked on even more than I already am. Not only do I get walked on by most of my instructors, who I swear play so many mind-games with us (my ex-marine dad seems to think so after the stories I've told him). I get it from the staff at the community hospital where we do our clinical, who will deliberately steal your pt's MAR so that you look bad for not being able to admin meds or will walk away while you are mid sentence trying to tell them about your pt's recent change in LOC. Then I also get it from my fellow class mates who are such perfectionists that they will insult you to your face or behind your back if you question your knowledge either to one of them or to the instructor in front them. I don't pretend to know something when I do not. Isn't that dangerous?"
Dear Spookycat,
I couldn't agree w/ you more!!! Can someone please tell us what we can do to improve this situation so good students can concentrate on nursing and not nursing non-professionalism. I want to be a good nurse and not someone who graduated because she knew how to double cross , backstab, and sabatoge her fellow students.

And please tell me why ADN programs are more about flushing students as opposed to teaching them? My class of 60 students- 45 of which have B.S. degrees in other fields. Some were medics in the military. We are not stupid- just naive and green. We are paying alot of money , forgoing many pleasures of life, sacrificing and living off credit cards just for the priviledge to one day call ourselves nurses. There is cetainly a demand for us when we graduate- so why sooo many sandbox games?
If the public knew what nursing school was really about they would stop funding them.

Mar 09, 2008 09:06 PM - whew!!!.. i just submitted an article about going into reality after all those trainings gained from school.. as what you said its like an answer to what im all asking. on how to deal with the actual field of nursing. i mean a new comer to the world of professionals.. thanks for sharing anyway.. its very tough to be working with people, as a team. And its like the same thing we were still student.. yes we are learning.. we are nurses and we are bound to be with knowledge, skills, and attitude flexible enough to deal with circumstances.. but we are human.. still within the parameters of mistakes.. and i know that all of us either new or old enough with experiences could at least still involve in the process of learning new things..

Mar 10, 2008 06:42 AM - Hey spookycat don't go. I am much older than you, I graduated at 57 after a long and arduous course. I work in the school sector. I didn't do a postgrad unfortunately, I wish I'd been able to I would have come more equipped. Sometimes even co workers you feel are friendly will wait until there's a student in front of you to make you feel small. If you do something successfully and make a good call they will tell you the next day of the few things you didn't achieve. That's life. Sometimes it sucks and other times when I work alone or with another worker it is great, you feel valued and you know the students respond to you. I wouldn't give up my job for anything. Stick around the world needs you.

Mar 10, 2008 04:32 PM - I just wanted to add that as a newer RN, I try to take the time to thank the nursing students on my floor when they help out. As a student, you always worry that you're doing something wrong or being judged, so it's nice to hear someone say "good job" or other nice things once in a while!