Yesterday while working charge in the Nursery we had our usual nursing student chaos in here but this new lot was unusually pompous and arogant!! It used to be that students asked for help or showed interest in learning new stuff but this class is something else--one girl walked by a crib, looked in and told me "this baby has spit all over from formula--would you mind cleaning him up?" and left the nursery! I was so flabergasted I didn't know what to say--Someone later said she must have mistook me for the NA but still, you don't treat a NA this way, either!! and her classmate kept bugging me about a lab test I had ordered, "when is the lab coming, why haven't they been here yet, have they been here yet, etc etc. I finally told her that even in the best run hospitals lab can't always come to draw right then and there. She just rolled her eyes and walked out--everytime she and her classmates came to the nursery they would have to ring the bell because of no access cards--so imagine my day yesterday. Don't get me wrong, I am only 2 1/2 years out of school and am a BIG advocate of students--but, really!! What are they teaching these people about staff interactions anyway?
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