is this normal?? (Clinical experience)

[shippoRN]

I'm on my second semester, of nursing school. My first semester went fantastic, and i had a great clinical instructor.

I don't like complaining but my current instructor just isn't cutting it.

I won't go into details, but I do have one question... is it just me, or is there a little something wrong, with the instructor making her students practice injecting sterile water into oranges on the clinical floor?

We were suppose to start our injections at clinical this week, and there weren't any patients who needed shots on the floor, sooooo my instructor got an orange i guess from a patient's tray, and made us stand on the floor infront all the RN staff and patients, and made us draw up sterile water and inject it into an orange.

Is this a normal thing to do on a clinical floor, i mean i know they wanted us to bring an orange to lab to practice, but on the floor?

[LiveZen]

Sounds like a neat opportunity for some extra practice. I assume your group had downtime, which is common for clinical days if you only have one basic patient.

Maybe you and your classmates could come up with some ideas of things you would really like to practice, so the professor can use the demo time to focus on those skills. If you approach it in a humble manner (rather than "Well, that's great that you want to teach us oranges, but this is what WE want to do), the instructor will probably respect your class even more for asking.