A couple of weeks ago I went to this hospital for my IVT completion and I was wondering why the staff nurses there won't let us touch their patients...I meant figuratively. They just gave us the cases and only a few of the staff allowed me to join them and carry out the medication orders (IV push, aspirating meds from vials etc. --the very basic ones). I didnt even have the chance to do IV insertion eventhough they knew I was there 'to learn'.
I didn't know if it's a usual procedure for us to just observe the staff doing their IV's and stuff.... Maybe I wasn't assertive enough to tell them or ask them , 'Would you allow me to do it?'. It's obvious they were very busy.
What's the use of getting a completion if we cant have the chance to validate our skills.
After I was given my IVT cases, I wonder....maybe these nurses learned their craft /got used to doing all these nursing procedures when they were hired/when they were given patient assignments/ ..maybe then they felt really accountable for their patients such that they would hardly let their patients be handled by practicumers ...
