Clinical classmates hate me

[emilylizj]

I need some advice of how to handle some girls in my clinical group. Unfortunately by doing very well in class my instructor started referring to me as the smart girl and it started creating a divide among me and my other clinical classmates. I have gone out of my way to help these girls to succeed and helped many of them with their first medication administration. Now they have started mocking me and talking horrible about me at clinicals to the point of me crying on the phone to my mother during our lunch break (I have pretty thick skin). I am at a loss of what to do and how to handle these girls that I am required to work a 12 hour clinical shift with every week. Any advice?

[AnArtist]

I would say to try to stay with "your nurse" and to ignore their behavior as much as possible. If you don't have to have lunch together, then don't. There's plenty of stress enough to be taking care of patients during clinicals without having them take their stress out on you.