Colleges spitting out new nurse without any training?

[fulzgold]

Has anyone else noticed the new nurses aren't getting much training? Has anyone else oriented a new nurse, very recently, and wondered how in the world they passed their state boards? The healthcare facility I work at has had numerous "baby nurses" come on board recently. Not one of them could cut the job. If they didn't quit on their own, they ended up getting terminated.I was trying to orient a new one a week ago. It became clear very quickly she knew absolutley nothing. I had to take her through all the steps of blood sugar checks, insulin injections, she didn't know how to apply a DSD. It was like I was her clinical instructor. She went to a reputable college for her LPN, so i just don't get it. I asked her what she did in clinicals and she said "Well, all we really did was CNA stuff". She said she had worked in a factory and got laid off and the unemployment office hooked her up with some retraining. WT?

[kristak]

I've been doing 15 hours of clinical/week since I started nursing school. Now I'm about to finish my 3rd semester. I've done a zillion IVs, given innumerable heparin/lovenox/fragmin injections, done all kinds of dressing changes, given meds through PEG tubes, J tubes, NG tubes, taken lots of lots of blood gluc readings, and given the insulin after... I go to the hospital the day before the clinical to write down my meds, orders, lab values and go through the patient's chart, go through the bedside flowsheet, and meet the patient. Then I go home and spend hours researching my meds, doing my 4 nsg dx, etc.

But I have never inserted or dc'd a foley. All my patients already have already had one that was not coming out, or didn't need one. Just happenstance. So I imagine the same thing happens to other nursing students. I only have one semester left, so I imagine I may graduate having never done more with a foley than empty it.