Clinical Rotation!!!

[julieannp]

Just kinda looking for advise/direction. Im currently in my 3rd day of clinicals..I feel out of place compaired to other girls ..not that i dont know my stuff from classes but just like i feel like im not getting alot of opportunities with procedures like some are.. i feel the instructor keeps putting me with simple patients weather she feels i cant go beyond that or what but it really bothers me. I know i can perform way beyond what iv been giving but i cant say anything because if you compllain your just told "thats how it goes in clinicals". i hear alot of girls ask alot of questions all day long and pretty much after awhile i begin to wonder based on questions they ask cz some are just plain common sense if they are doing it to make our instructor think they are smart or the best because they are starting to look ridiculous with the questions they ask.. these of course are them students that like to throw fellow student under the bus any chance they get or like to try and tell the instructor who they think should be paird with or who they think isnt competent..ya know the know it all's..and then there is me who never really ask anything unless its relevant or pertanent to a now situation that i question.. it also seems the instructor is always with those few student and never really seems to remember im there..im usually left alone and not checked on at all during the day..i just really dont know what to make of this, is she confident in me or is she wanting me to fail and i dont like to think that way but how can i not from her actions..I just dont know how to take all this. am i reading into it too much? is it a good thing she isnt checking on me? or is it poor teaching? help

[PCroizier]

I don't think asking for a different type of patient is considered complaining if you ask the right way. Have you tried expressing your interest in doing certain procedures? Saying "I am interested in doing......" is different than saying "I never get to do...."

Also the old adage of "the squeaky wheel gets the grease" is important in a group setting.

The only clinical experience I have had is in CNA class thus far but my instructor was very good at doing rounds on all of us in the beginning and eventually I never saw her because she moved focused to those who were not as confident.