Parent to Nurse advice

[Northsky]

Ok this may be a bit long, but the back story is: I have a child that is medically complex...and have had 2 occasions where I have had to strongly advocate for my child to receive adequate care while inpatient, and thus there are a few nurses who may have a lesser opinion of me because I called them out, and they have since been standoffish to me. As a parent I try to be super low maintenance and make the nurses job as easy as possible.

The current issue I am having is I am applying for Nursing this year and we only have one hospital/program for nursing in my city and I am SO worried about having to deal with nurses who know me as a parent and may not play fairly during clinical...our hospital/city is quite small so everyone knows everyone....

I could apply in another city but that would involve a large move and transfer of medical care for my kiddo...

Does anyone have advice on dealing with this type of situation?

[Northsky]

Nope. No they won't. The nurses will see you as another body to be precepted. And you should not assume that because you have spent time as the patient of a parent that you know more than the other students, either. You may indeed...some of the best nurses I've met are nurses because their kids were patients once. But I would not start out saying any of that.

I absolutely will not be speaking of any personal experience...whatsoever with either other students or instructors...I know nothing other than what pertains to my child...and that "knowlege" is only applicable to my child so really has no place in an educational situation

[missmollie, ADN, BSN, RN]

Perhaps peds isn't where you should go at this time. Try adult, and go from there.

[Northsky]

Yes, that was the plan but I still have to rotate through mat/child as a student.