Can you PLEASE be quiet...

[SweetLemon]

so sitting down to morning report i am the off going nurse and have two nursing students sitting in. great, no problem. if i was to be 100% honest i don't love having nursing students around. i genuinely want to pass on the good experiences that were given to me by wonderful clinical instructors that i have had but it is not something that comes naturally. with that said i purposely waited to conduct report because i know in the past nurses who have wanted to get out as soon as their shift is over will go through it before the students get there and they end up missing the whole thing. i wait, sit down to start going through the list and not only are the two students talking while i am giving report they start talking over me!!!:hdvwl: not about patients, the facility or anything remotely related... but instead about finals and end of term. i am sorry, i know you are required to be here and all but this is my place of work and this report really is not some silly little exercise that i must do for a grade, it is important. i shot the girls (well actually they looked like they were 30 and 50 but childish all the same) a look and they stopped for a while but minutes later were going at it again!?! not quite as loud the 2nd time around but still, i was mad! then they ask a bunch of questions which by that time i had no interest in going through, if you can't have enough respect to let me talk why should i have to go and answer all your silly questions.:scrm: i know i am probably being way too harsh but it irked me. i will try to be nice to the next group knowing that this was only two individuals and not the nursing student body as a whole, but now i can see why i came across some occasionally difficult nurses while in nursing school. :grn:

thanks for listening... i feel better now

[travel50]

I would think "the look" would have been enough for a 30 and 50 year old adult.

You would think, but I swear I have seen adults less mature than my 8 yr old grandson, and I do not exaggerate. Some people, perhaps the OP, are just not comfortable disciplining other people, esp adults who should need no disciplining. I appreciate the instructor writing in who said she would hope to be notified if her students behaved so. I have LPN students at my nursing home, and fortunately, all have been very professional. If they opt not to be, then I would opt to do something about it.

[Ruby Vee, BSN]

i would think "the look" would have been enough for a 30 and 50 year old adult.

one would hope, but evidently it wasn't.

[nursecassia]

I think this situation was handled poorly Im sorry...we can all agree im sure that sometimes people just dont clue in to what they are doing...I myself have students all the time and they either talk like this during report or they only write down the info for their patients and not the whole team.( Drives me nuts)...I am quick to remedy this situation by telling them at that moment that they need to pay attention to what is being discussed and there will be time for chatting later, sometimes they just need to hear it..WHen i was a student im sure I did a couple times cause you get into clinical and are so excited sometimes it just slips your mind...That being said I try to be understanding, not overanalyse it and just tell them how it is..if they continue then I would tell them strait out that I would be discussing it with their instructor...I think you need to take responsibilty that teaching is more than just teaching skills, it is teaching how to be professional as well, and myself as a recent grad would much rather you tell me and us get along better than you going behind my back to tattle on me which would make me resentful and not want to work with you again...

[Valerie Salva, BSN, RN]

They were out of line.

With that said, I believe you could have been more assertive in dealing with this situation. "Giving them a look" doesn't cut it. Stop report, look directly at them, and ask/tell them to stop talking so that everyone can hear the shift report. If they continue, stop again and send them outside the room for their personal conversation, then seek out their instructor before you leave.

Being direct and assertive (which doesn't equal rude) may have produced a better outcome in this situation.

I totally agree with this.

[arelle68]

I had a nurse bite my head off for something like this when I was a student nurse. I had found an error in pt. identification, and I thought I had just saved the world. I didn't know that my brilliance was not the major topic of report that morning. I was in La-la land. I didn't know what nursing was about. Exhaustion, time constraints, working all night, feeling at the end of yourself all the time. I understand those things better now, though. However, when I have absolutely clueless people interrupt my report, I take a deep breath, and remember what a silly little thing I was, and how it hurt to have my silly little head bit off.