Bored in clinical?

[FNPhopeful]

Im finding myself with nothing to do for 8 hrs in clinical. Im on the OB rotation and we normally have 1 patient........needless to say I can only look through the charts for so long..... Me and my classmates literally stand around trying to look busy. There's just never anything happening. And dont get me started on the RN's we get assigned to who try their best to lose us every chance they get. Im so annoyed! Why does it bother someone that Im there to learn from them ?! I would be sooo flattered, I'd eat it up.

AND then they act like I sucked when their filling out my little daily evaluation form. And Im just thinkin you avoided me, gossiped with the other RN's the whole time, and didnt wanna let me do anything.

Its really quite degrading, because Im supposed to follow them around like a puupy dog and Im totally not wanted. And for what reason? Im the nicest person ever....they just dont wanna be bothered? Im sorry but for lack of a better word, thats ******.

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[mistydave]

to the guy....I am thinking you are afraid you will be kicked out of most of the deliveries because you are a guy...and that may be so, however, when I had 2 of my children, there happen to be a male dr (student) or student nurse. I don't even know. They just said, hey by the way, this is so and so, and he said oh nice to meet you. They explained he was a student and did I mind if he watched.....??? mind you I was ready to push, at that point I was like, no ....don't care if you bring a football team, just HELP me! So he stood there and watched EVERYTHING...and I think he helped do some stuff down there. I don't even know what because I was so into doing the pushing and focusing on my pain. And I will promise you I am a very shy person, I would of never agreed to that in advance in my right mind. I don't care now, no reason focusing on that. But my point is, you might not get pushed out near as much as you think.. Just a thought. Both deliveries, it was a guy (nurse or dr. student).

[Kiringat]

My PDA saved my life during OB. I don't know what it was, but every single nurse had an I-am-too-good-too-deal-with-students thing. It was horrible. But I loaded some notes and games and such onto my PDA and survived. That and sneaking over to mom/baby.

What is it about OB? Why do those nurses hate students? We could have learned soooooo much from them.