Weirdest Clinical Nightmare Ever~ The whole day was so bad. . . (Long but crazy!)

[BabyNurseBSN2006]

OK, I'm not sure how to start my story so I will just begin. During clinical this week when our group met in pre-conference I was looking at this girl who was asking a question and I noticed that her mouth was oozing blood. I thought I was going crazy since I had very little sleep the whole week but it was bleeding all over her teeth and lips. At this point I was the only person watching this happen and we all left too quickly for me to say anything privately to her. So I just shook it off till later. Anyway, an hour later our clinical instructor (who is very smart and awesome but very tough and drill instructor like) went and found her because a pt. was screaming. She was changing a sheet and blood was dripping out of her mouth! She didn't see a problem with this, she was changing the sheets after all! So this girl also refuses to do any prep work for clinical because it's too much for her to do when she's tired and she only had "30 minutes of sleep" the night before. I told her to join the club and do her work because we are all tired. So, besides the fact that she's bleeding my instructor starts asking about her care of the pt. and all she's saying is, "I don't know, I didn't get to it." So she is pulled into a middle conference room in the middle of the hall and is ripped apart about not being prepared. The only problem is the more she is being yelled at the more she starts bleeding! It was like I was watching a movie. . .a sick movie that didn't make sense. The instructor is now seeing all the blood up close and asks what the "He** is that?" and the girl just said, "My doctor said my gums are rotten, what am I suppose to do about it, I don't want to be here anyway." My teacher flipped out and dropped numerous F~bombs while kicking her off the floor. She didn't leave though~she walked up and down the floor leaving a trail of blood and speaking Russian to herself. She then decided to go tell on this instructor to the head of the program in the faculty buildings next door with this dried blood still all over her face. Of course she failed to mention that she refused to work and said she didn't want to work but the boss still came over in a huff looking for this lady who just cursed out a student. They then get in a fight on the floor about the bleeder while another student faints due to being sick and having low blood pressure down the hall and a seizure pt. gets up to get something and has a seizure and smacks down right on his head. So they need to call a code. Ahhhhhh!!!!! Sure enough every student was sent away "to lunch" very far off the floor while things needed to settle down. An hour later we all met back were the lovely day started to wrap things up only to be yelled at for 10 minutes about being screw ups and if we don't want to do things then there's the door. She called us curse words I have never even heard before! She then went around and tried to name all the things each person did wrong and made an example out of them if they messed up. I thank my stars that I had a wonderful nurse that day who was right with me during the difficult stuffs like a first time cath on a male to get a urine sample for a test and later on a first time male Foley. I guess I'm not as traumatized as my fellow classmates because I know what caused her frustrations and I knew I didn't cause them this week!:chuckle but this was really a very bad day! Thanks for reading! Good night!

ps...what was with the girl's mouth bleeding? have you every seen this? can your gums just rot like that~she's only 20?

[Maggie in NC]

You have to feel bad about that girl. If she can't manage her own dental hygiene, it's very unlikely she can manage patient care. I'm not saying it's her fault she has it but, it is her fault it is exagerated. She could use prescription mouthwash, toothpaste, and a hydroflosser to control her condition.

Everyone makes fun of me because I carry a toothbrush and toothpaste in my purse, keep them in my car, have them in my gym bag, etc. Here is a good example why I do it!!

[purplemania, BSN, RN]

Too bad you weren't in a psych rotation. You would have had lots to write up.

[BabyNurseBSN2006]

HI everyone! Thanks for taking the time to make me feel better. I wanted to take a chance to update you on what has happened since "The Clinical Day!! By now the news about what had happened has traveled to everyone associated to our class. It's the talk of the town. I just tell everyone to learn something from it and move on~it is really just too weird to try to figure out why the day went so bad. As for the girl, she quit the program that day but changed her mind later on. She tried to get back into the program stating that she wasn't medically "all there" so her choice was made in hast. They told her that she needed to prove that so she tried to check herself into the emergency room for rotting gums. When they didn't give her the note she wanted to get back into the program she went to two other hospitals. That's right, she went to three extremely busy Er to get paperwork for her rotting mouth. Now she's telling everyone that she has a clotting problem and has changed her whole story and is acting like she's the victim. Then she was told she had to come to the next scheduled clinical with the same instructor and attend a med passing lab in order to continue but she didn't show for either. Why you might ask, well she says because of her new "rare, clotting disorder." So not true! This was crazy/scary at first then it moved into kind of funny but now she's just wasting our class' , our teacher's and my time. Why must there always be a class whack job:confused:????Maybe it's something I did in a past life to have to deal with these people!!!!! ahahah ok guys, BYE_BYE!!:balloons:

[mitchsmom]

whoa nellie! Guess it can only get better from here, huh?

Whatever medical problem she has, she should have talked to the instructor about it beforehand (before clincals, before problems could develop)...

weird-o-rama

[Marie_LPN, RN, LPN, RN]

That instructor should be reported for verbal abuse.

[cherokeesummer]

That is wild! Interesting though, we had a code during clinical too, but the strange thing is it was on the Post partum floor...imagine that! We were like HUH?

[z's playa]

I feel ill.

Someone insert barfing smiley here.

[jaimealmostRN]

OMG......my mouth (clean) is hanging open. This sounds like some sort of surreal nightmare! I feel for you OP! Just know that students like her won't last too long. My gosh, can you imagine being a pt and having your nurse bleeding all over you??? YOu'd think you were hallucinating or something! Just know that many excellent nursing professors have their "freak out moment." It's best just to do a good job, always be prepared (and it sounds like you are) and just let them get it all out. I can imagine that watching a bunch of fainting, bleeding students would stress anyone out! Again, wow..... what if this happened on a peds floor, they'd think she was a monster or something!!!

[jaimealmostRN]

oops, just read your second post OP. I am very glad she is gone!!! We have a very unprofessional student in our class too, but definatly not that bad. Good luck!

[lisamc1RN, LPN]

I'm glad the student is gone. And all I can say about your instructor is Wow! She needs to get a big dose of professionalism. I would be extremely disappointed if any of my instructors treated us like that.

[DZcarrie]

holy cow!

that story reminded me of two things: that gum commercial where that little boy goes into a classroom to ask his teacher a question and the teacher was just eating something red and when he turns around his whole mouth is red like a vampire....lol....

the other: was this girl who went to my first college's 3 day orientation. this girl was totally drugged and high the ENTIRE time....kept just getting up and leaving during placement exams never to be seen again....talked to herself...dont think she bathed the entire 3 days....kept going to the bathroom for long periods of time with her very large bag.... i think she only made it about a month.

sometimes it is hard to figure out how so many wackos even make it this far!

i hope your clinicals are going much better now!

:) and i thought MINE were bad! hahaha