We got a new instructor...who is a Med/Surg II instructor and told us ahead of time that she often " forgets" we are just Fundamentals students.
Well, boy does she ever. I saw her rip apart a few classmates in the hall but then it was my turn.
I had to give meds through the NG tube- and the syringe was not in the room ( it was earlier)..so I went to supply to get a new one..and low and behold I couldn't find a darn syringe ANYWHERE. So, I came back into the room and told her that I couldn't locate the syringe and which she stated, in front of my client + her husband, that she doesn't have " time for such ridiculousness- I will show you where it is".
So we go to supply and guess what? SHE CANT FIND IT EITHER....but did she say sorry? Well, I didn't expect her to.
Then I go to give the meds- I am doing my 3 checks with her and I my client had to have 240 mg and I had 120 mg capsules...so I go through the check and I get to the dosage part and I state " Client needs 240 mg- I have 120 mg.... she cuts me off before I can say " 2 capsules"...she says " what do you have??" and I said " 120 mg" and she screams " NO. How many are in the cup?????".
Later on she proceeds to tell me I am too nervous. Yep, you bet I was with her ....I will work on that.
At post conference a fellow classmate didn't understand a saline-lock. She explains it to her but the classmate had some questions for clarification and she sighs and says ( in front of ALL OF US) " this is worrysome. How did you get where you are without knowing this? How can you not understand what I just told you? What part of it don't you get- it's straightforward and you worry me- I may have to have a talk with the DON".
Can I just mention that this is our 2nd ACTUAL day on the floor?
She certainly does have troubles remembering we aren't Med/Surg II students.
Sorry to hear you've got such a witch for a clinical instructor.
People like that just irritate me because she's making the students feel bad for asking questions, and that's terrible. Clinicals are hard enough as it is, without all the added stress of putting up with instructors like that.
I had an instructor like that. Yelled at me at the nurses' station ... and it was over nothing. I was really PO'd because I had worked with some of those nurses as an extern.
So ... I met with her afterward and told her I didn't appreciate the way she was treating me. She said she was only "joking." And I said I didn't appreciate it but, if it was going to continue, I would have to go the head of the nursing school.
I never had a problem with her after that.
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hahah you're awesome! But I hope you don't mind me asking, are you an "older" nursing student? Because I feel like if I ever said that to anyone like an instructor, I would get laughed at or yelled at because I am only 21, yet I look 17!
Talk about Dr. Jeckyll + Mr. Hyde though....today she was so sweet she was like walking glucose- ha ha.
I had an awesome day- go to watch a wet-to-dry dressing on a HUGE abdominal wound...got to watch a PICC line placement and got to pass more meds via NG and place a foley.
Talk about Dr. Jeckyll + Mr. Hyde though....today she was so sweet she was like walking glucose- ha ha.
I had an awesome day- go to watch a wet-to-dry dressing on a HUGE abdominal wound...got to watch a PICC line placement and got to pass more meds via NG and place a foley.
I'm glad to hear that, BoomersMom!!! Hopefully, the good days will out weigh the bad. :balloons:
hahah you're awesome! But I hope you don't mind me asking, are you an "older" nursing student? Because I feel like if I ever said that to anyone like an instructor, I would get laughed at or yelled at because I am only 21, yet I look 17!
Yeah ... I'm older ... but it didn't keep her from yelling at me in the first place.
I think the difference is: in my '20s I would have been scared to say anything.
In my '40s ... I don't care anymore. Nobody treats me like that.
Boy does this thread bring back memories! I had one like this. I too had to give meds down NG tube (for the 1st time) and the day before we started she warned that we'd BETTER have everything we needed ready to go before she walked into the room. I had about 3 full cups of water, all my meds crushed and dissoving in different little med cups in case I ended up not being able to give something. I had the little foil containers lined up in front of each cup in case she asked me what each was. Then she ended up making me move the bedside table to the other side of the bed b/c she said I was working "over the patient" (whatever that means). I ended up spilling a bunch of stuff while moving the table and when I looked at her she had her head in her hand shaking it. It was like a circus! The whole time I was pouring meds in syringe she was saying "hurry,hurry, you have to be faster. She yelled at me outside the room and I finally said "I'm sorry, I can't do this with you yelling at me". She basically told me to get used to it, that's how real world nursing is and pointed out that I hadn't even started to deal with the docs yet. I have to say though, looking back, that experience did help me thicken my skin a little. Good Luck, this too shall pass!
Boy does this thread bring back memories! I had one like this. I too had to give meds down NG tube (for the 1st time) and the day before we started she warned that we'd BETTER have everything we needed ready to go before she walked into the room. I had about 3 full cups of water, all my meds crushed and dissoving in different little med cups in case I ended up not being able to give something. I had the little foil containers lined up in front of each cup in case she asked me what each was. Then she ended up making me move the bedside table to the other side of the bed b/c she said I was working "over the patient" (whatever that means). I ended up spilling a bunch of stuff while moving the table and when I looked at her she had her head in her hand shaking it. It was like a circus! The whole time I was pouring meds in syringe she was saying "hurry,hurry, you have to be faster. She yelled at me outside the room and I finally said "I'm sorry, I can't do this with you yelling at me". She basically told me to get used to it, that's how real world nursing is and pointed out that I hadn't even started to deal with the docs yet. I have to say though, looking back, that experience did help me thicken my skin a little. Good Luck, this too shall pass!
While do realize this is the real world and that people are allowed to have their own personalities, why are Dr.'s or instructors even allowed to YELL at anyone?
While do realize this is the real world and that people are allowed to have their own personalities, why are Dr.'s or instructors even allowed to YELL at anyone?
She wasn't just referring to raising her voice at me, also with others being impatient, demanding, etc. It's not necessarily allowed (if you're referring to agency policies) but it happens everyday. Stressfull environment, stressfull situations = stressfull responses. She was basically just letting me know that as a nurse I could expect that at times and she was right. Since I've been a nurse I see it all the time.
...I had an instructor who was really hard on me and I think it was because I was the oldest in the class and in her clinicals. Once when she was saying I better speed up, I'll never make it, I said, "I must have performance anxiety". I am a global learner and I have to know WHY something is done the way it is done. I had her in 3rd semester and am so glad she didn't move up to 4th !!
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RainDreamer, BSN, RN
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Sorry to hear you've got such a witch for a clinical instructor.
People like that just irritate me because she's making the students feel bad for asking questions, and that's terrible. Clinicals are hard enough as it is, without all the added stress of putting up with instructors like that.
Hang in there!