I'm currently a second yr student nurse and I'm really disappointed in my fellow tem members. I find as a student you are often being discourage into the profession by mentors and their behaviour towards each other is little better than squabbling five year olds. I'm feed up with hearing mentors and health care support workers slag each other off in my presence, not only does it make me feel uncomfortable but it also makes me doubt entering a profession where the MDT cant remain professional at work. During this placement I have seen a fellow student leave the ward in tears twice due to the aggression her mentors have portrayed towards her. Luckily I have a great support system behind me so when I get home I can vent to them, go back on the ward and take their behaviour with a pinch of salt, and lashings of vodka on the wkend. Just want to know is it this bad when you qualify? or r there any other students that experience difficult placements, if so what are your coping strategies.
I enjoy working with students most of the time but I'm getting a little fed-up with the quality (or lack of it) that is starting to come through. It's been ages since I had student who even had the basics of common sense (I'm not even referring to nursing when I say this.)
What's worse is that if you even try so much as to make a suggestion as to how they can improve you get the "it's because of my culture" or "you don't understand my culture"... thrown back at you. Universities are scared in my mind to even fail students incase they get accused of racism.
I'm also fed-up of universities not matching up placements with their course work. We had one student placed with us on our adult med-surg ward while trying to cmplete her child health theory in college. Now you tell me how she is supposed to relate theory to practice when her placements don't match her classes?The courses have no proper structure, some of our students are self-confessedly copying & pasting large parts of their essay work & my current student didn't even know what paracetamol was for & you don't even need to be a nurse to know that one!! She's in her second year too!! SCARY!!
I understand I'm opening a can of worms here & I do want to stress that I have come across some quite outstanding students in the past but I feel they're there inspite of, not despite, the system. Also they're becoming rarer.
I just want you to see things from a mentor's point of view & understand why some of us are getting fed up & why so many of us hark back to the older styles of training.
hi all, i totally agree about the nurses calling each other names. i joined nursing school in september 07, i had my first placement in november it lasted till february and it was the worst experience of my life. i have two children who behave better than them on this ward, the nurses were lazy to say the least they would bully the students to do everything and the students did because they were afraid of getting fails on their practise documents. i to witnessed a student crying because she was bullied i reported the state of the ward when i went back to school. I also reported to the nurses on the ward that five patients had the beginnings of pressure sores on the bottoms and nothing was done. It was like they did'nt like the student telling them anything. I hope i never have to set foot on that ward again i would rather leave.
I'm currently a second yr student nurse and I'm really disappointed in my fellow tem members. I find as a student you are often being discourage into the profession by mentors and their behaviour towards each other is little better than squabbling five year olds. I'm feed up with hearing mentors and health care support workers slag each other off in my presence, not only does it make me feel uncomfortable but it also makes me doubt entering a profession where the MDT cant remain professional at work. During this placement I have seen a fellow student leave the ward in tears twice due to the aggression her mentors have portrayed towards her. Luckily I have a great support system behind me so when I get home I can vent to them, go back on the ward and take their behaviour with a pinch of salt, and lashings of vodka on the wkend. Just want to know is it this bad when you qualify? or r there any other students that experience difficult placements, if so what are your coping strategies.
i am mentoring a student at the moment over here, and its very different to back home apart from the fact that she is so young, she is very eager to learn. even a few years ago, some of the students,,,and these were mature ones! were as rough as they come, weekends spent boozing and fighting and looking like they had been dragged through a hedge backwards when they came to work. at the end of the day, nursing is a profession and although the stress of being there gets to you, we all have to deal with it including the students.
some words that are acceptable to us brits is frowned upon by the americans, my friend posted a mild derogatory word on here and the american moderator changed the word into a more offensive one to us,,,,,,only they didnt know it.
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some words that are acceptable to us brits is frowned upon by the americans, my friend posted a mild derogatory word on here and the american moderator changed the word into a more offensive one to us,,,,,,only they didnt know it.
really???
now that is funny lord knows what they will make of me next time i land i have to say my mouth can be a bit blue sometimes.
i should be in bed, worked last night but i cant sleep cos i got so wound up at work that i could kill someone today!!! thankgod im off at the weekend doing my other job which i love so much more than the nhs
some words that are acceptable to us brits is frowned upon by the americans, my friend posted a mild derogatory word on here and the american moderator changed the word into a more offensive one to us,,,,,,only they didnt know it.
they'll cotton on soon enough though - so many uk actors teaching them! especially on "er" - i can't believe how often the pretty english speaking indian doc (won't begin to try & spell her name) gets away with the "w" word & the dog's "b" word!
not that i got away with even "starring" out the latter on here!! just having the beginning letter got me told off
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I enjoy working with students most of the time but I'm getting a little fed-up with the quality (or lack of it) that is starting to come through. It's been ages since I had student who even had the basics of common sense (I'm not even referring to nursing when I say this.)
What's worse is that if you even try so much as to make a suggestion as to how they can improve you get the "it's because of my culture" or "you don't understand my culture"... thrown back at you. Universities are scared in my mind to even fail students incase they get accused of racism.
I'm also fed-up of universities not matching up placements with their course work. We had one student placed with us on our adult med-surg ward while trying to cmplete her child health theory in college. Now you tell me how she is supposed to relate theory to practice when her placements don't match her classes?The courses have no proper structure, some of our students are self-confessedly copying & pasting large parts of their essay work & my current student didn't even know what paracetamol was for & you don't even need to be a nurse to know that one!! She's in her second year too!! SCARY!!
I understand I'm opening a can of worms here & I do want to stress that I have come across some quite outstanding students in the past but I feel they're there inspite of, not despite, the system. Also they're becoming rarer.
I just want you to see things from a mentor's point of view & understand why some of us are getting fed up & why so many of us hark back to the older styles of training.