Can you PLEASE be quiet...

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Specializes in Psychiatric Nursing.

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 :mad:

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Specializes in ER.

Kick them out of the room, or warn them and then kick them out. It's a real teaching moment.

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Specializes in ICU, Telemetry.

I'm an LPN and half way thru the RN. I'd never do that, and I'd expect to get tossed out if I did, and the nurse to have a chat with my teacher.

I gotta tell you, having been on both sides of the fence, I don't know how happy I'll be if I get a student like some of the bozos I've been in school with. KIA, PITA.

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Talk about a complete lack of common sense! I would have reported these social zeros to their instructor.

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As an instructor, I would like to know that it happened. If you wanted to stop report and get me then, that would be fine with me. I can send them home for unprofessionalism and give them a "U" for the day. (Two Us will fail you.). I know it is awful to stop report and get the instructor, but we have no other way to know what is going on. (I have 8-10 students on the floor at once and can't possible be in all of those morning reports.) I realize it sets you back a little, but if you can somehow get the message to the instructor, it is definitely something that we need to know.

One time, I had an issue with a student that a nurse waited to tell me until I was leaving the floor on the last day of clinical. I had just given the students their final evaluations to read and sign, right before we left. Kinda complicated things when I got a big issue to deal with, as the staff nurse stopped me on the way out, as she didn't want to bother me with the issue earlier. It was a suspicion of taking a narcotic (nurse gave it to the student to give and patient who was a nurse recalled getting the ES Motrin, but not the narcotic pill). Obviously, this is an issue I would have liked to have dealt with immediately, and not wait until later to deal with. I had to write an addendum to her evaluation to deal with the issue. Please tell us sooner than later if there is an issue with a student.

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Specializes in Emergency/Trauma/Education.

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.

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Specializes in Endoscopy/MICU/SICU.

Wow, that's ridiculous. As a student, I can't imagine behaving like this in front of the staff nurses. Ditto what the other posters have said, tell them to be quiet during report or leave. Most students are very aware that we're a bother to the nurses, so common sense would tell them to keep their mouths shut.

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Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.

rather than being too harsh, i don't think you were harsh enough. i would have stopped report, asked them politely to button it up the first time. the second time, i would have bounced them out of report, refused to work with them and sought out the instructor for remediation.

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Specializes in ob/gyn med /surg.

i would of said after the first warning " where's your instructor?" , they would tell me and i would of said " go get him or her" and i would of sang like a bird in front of them. i would of told the instructor how rude they were , and then they would remember to keep quiet while i am trying to do my work.

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Specializes in IMCU.

OK but why, instead of shooting them a look and hoping they will read your mind, did you not tell them to be quiet? You do see, that to be annoyed with them, because they didn't do what you wanted, when you in fact did not tell them what you wanted, isn't looking after your own needs...right?

Just my two cents -- I am sure I will get flamed.

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Specializes in Emergency/Trauma/Education.
OK but why, instead of shooting them a look and hoping they will read your mind, did you not tell them to be quiet? You do see, that to be annoyed with them, because they didn't do what you wanted, when you in fact did not tell them what you wanted, isn't looking after your own needs...right?

Just my two cents -- I am sure I will get flamed.

No flames here...our 105 degree forecast is hot enough!

This is a good lesson for all of us to use when dealing with almost anyone.

:D

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Specializes in Dialysis.

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

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