clinical skills, theory application, and communication

[mashamontago]

my professors won't give me a rec to lvn school because i haven't shown her that i'm capable of these three areas. please help me. i failed out of nursing school for these reasons. now i'm in a cna program and i seem to suck at that too. i did a bed bath which i didn't prepare for and i just did it because i thought, well, i want to get checked off for something. i was tired of just throwing away dirty linen and giving baths and not getting credit. i guess one of my main problems is patience and being proud.

if i had stragetized better i would have put that last and did all the baby things like shaving, etc. there's so many little steps that i have to think about but i'm worried i'm failing behind and i'm losing. i also can't give in and let myself be irresponsible, but that's just what i'm doing. please help.

"you dont look like you know what you're doing."

how many times have i heard that one before?

two years have passed. will i ever grasp nursing concept?

[Whispera, MSN, RN]

I think if you can't give a proper bed bath, you're not following how to do it when you do all that "throwing away dirty linens and giving baths and not getting credit." Otherwise a bath check off would be a breeze. Does someone demonstrate how to do it? Do you have a checklist to follow? Are you following it when you give those uncredited baths?

You're right--you can't be irresponsible!! What can you do to be better next time?

[canadiangradschoolrn]

Hello,

The answer to your question is yes, you can ever grasp nursing concepts.

However, it needs patienc and work. Im sure you have been told that before. People have always thought nursing to be like domestic work without any knowledge associated with it, just practice. However, there is a strong theoretical foundation behind every nursing procedure.

What your professors need of you is to change your orientation. To start appreciating the theory behind nursing. Failure to do so, is dangerous for the patient. It requires you to always ask why. What are the rationales for your nursing actions and the basis of your actions. For instance, you do a diapper change on an elderly man. Are you going to apply cream or apply powder. What kind of cream or what kind of powder. Why are should you apply a cream or why should you apply a powder. This brings you back to your nursing assessment and then you go back to the theory about the skills. Hence application of theory enables you to think indepth to be able to provide competent care of your client. This is just an off the box example. Another example, you are performing perianal care, should you wipe from front to back or back to front. Now to be able to competently answer this, you need to go back to your theory, this guides your practice.

What Im saying is, in nursing we dont just do stuffs. There is a why, a rationale behind what we do. This is your theory. It is very essential to the care we provide to our clients