The "I HATE IT WHEN..." thread for students!!

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I thought it would be fun to start a thread dedicated to the things we hate that happen to us as students! Let's try not to focus on the annoying classmates we have but rather things like:

I HATE IT WHEN

  • I find out my patient has MRSA after working with him for 4 hours including bathing AND toileting assistance
  • I'm in the middle of a head to toe assessment and I reach for my pen light only to find the battery is dead
  • I'm changing a patient on contact precautions and I get an unbearable itch in my eye!
  • My glasses start to slip off my face while my hands are covered in poop!
  • The automatic blood pressure cuff inflates and the velcro comes apart and pops off the patient's arm lol
  • Some part, usually the thermometer, of the VS machine doesn't work!
  • You tell your patient not to get up and you find him in the bathroom
  • I need to assist a patient quickly and spend 13 seconds trying to put on the gloves because they get stuck in a roll on the back of my hand

I gotta think of some more and I'm sure I'll be adding to this list real soon! :lol2::clown::p:D

Specializes in Med-Surg.

I hate it when you go into a clinical setting (Im first year 2nd semester) and the RCA (care aids) take short cuts.. and tell me im using the mechanical lift (sit stand) wrong because im properly hooking up the patient (leg strap and abd buckle)

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when i was in my psych rotation and the second day a patient pulled my pants down to my ankles in the hospital hallway

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Specializes in Dialysis.
I hate when my clinical nursing instructor treats us like kindergarten students.

One instructor made sure that we always entered and exited whatever floor we were doing clinicals on as a group. We had to all leave the floor at the same time for break and lunch as well as return to the floor at the same time. Sometimes we ended up standing by the elevator wasting time for 20 minutes waiting as other students finished up what they were doing.

sounds like you were in my clinical group! lol

I also hate it when your stethoscope starts sliding off your neck, getting tangled in your gown, in the middle of a complicated med pass with your instructor in the room of a pt on contact precautions. (He was good enough to grab it for me so it didn't get contaminated!)

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Let's see:

- when we ask if something we went over will be on the test and the instructor says "NO" because it was not something we went over and then it turns up on the test

- You have a 7 hour clinical shift on a floor w/ 10 patients, a clinical group of 8 plus a PCT working and all your allowed to do is baths and vitals and the CI tells you that she doesn't want to see you standing around doing nothing. Um...well after we got vitals and baths on all 10 of the patients what exactly were we supposed to do for the other 6 hours on an ortho floor? There were only three nurses on the floor and they understandably weren't thrilled about 2-3 students trailing their every move.

- Being constantly told "we're all adults here" well then try treating us like adults instead of a group of 1st graders.

- you walk out of the room of a pt on contact precautions and realize you left something sitting on their table and have to totally regown/glove/mask to go in and get it

- you walk up to your nurse and wait quietly for them to finish what they're doing so you can talk to them and when they finish what they're doing they look at you and then walk away.

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Specializes in IMCU.

Hmmm if you exclude classmates...I got nuthin.

LOL

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Some hospitals require the instructor be with the students at all times---thus lunch it together...also this teaches you team work. Why did you wait 20 minutes for the others?? Did anyone think to go and help those students that were running behind so that everyone could go to lunch?

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:smackingf WHERE DO I BEGIN! I hate it when:

- the instructor tells you the entire med/surg book, PP slides, and lecture class talk is on the test and its not or when you have a question they tell you look it up in your text.

-CI wants us to do AM care, H+T asses. in 30 minutes, and Im learning HERE! so you can be on time to give meds but run late giving meds due to the CI:confused:

-Yes I have to agree with finding out your pt is contact precaution after you changed them. That happen to me and another student. The test came in after we changed the patient!!

-OH yes the V/S machine, either the cuff is to small, the battery is dead after you hooked the patient up, then you have to play machine hunt on the whole floor looking for one and waiting for it.

- when the supply cabinet is out of what you need, i remember going 5 flights to find a split gauze pad,UUGHH

-writing up your care plans, have it checked, then go home to type it and submit it via email just to get a reply to revise it again because you have to imput the correct medical terminology like "inadvertenly" instead of accidental withdrawal, lol

-patients know your a student and give you a run for your money, the family ask questions as if we are stupid.

- the nurses most of the time "DON'T KNOW" who, what, where, when, and sometimes why. SHEESH

- Just when your 12 hour shift is about over and you check on your patient to see if he or she need anything to be curtious and they need a million more.

- when you want to carry at least 2 pocket guides but you really end up with like 5 books because you never know what you need to look up and you hate to use other students' own cus they need it too.

- Your CI watch you draw up med and administer it but give you a look like you better not f*** this up.

- doing community projects when its mandated or its a pass/fail clinical.

-never a place for us students to put our belongings or a place to do clinical conferences, and we are piled up at the nursing station obtaining record information.

There is more but im getting frustration flash backs of these lol.

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Specializes in ICU-my whole life!!.

I hate it when they call a MASCAL.

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I hate it when some clinical instructors decide to disappear during clinicals, or only want to teach a few of the YOUNG students, instead of the whole group. They only allow the young ones to try out different things, while choosing the older ones to only wipe butts.

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when you have a question they tell you look it up in your text.

YES!! We have that going on in our class a lot too! I READ it in the text and want clarification, not to be referred back to the same book!

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Wow, it makes you wonder why so many of us want to be nurses after reading this. LOL!

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Specializes in Primary Care.

I hate it when I have so much homework that I have barely enough time to even tend to my own personal needs.... Just when I'm about finished with my last homework assignment, I get an email from my instructor about tomorow's simulation lab in which we need to research and pre-read about prior to arriving!!!!

UGHHHH!!!!!

I suppose it's all in the "name of nursing"!!!

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