Did you hate clinicals

megykilo · Jan 21, 2008

yep i pretty much dread clinicals all week, am miserable waking up so early in the morning, curse everything driving over ice and sleet in the winter to get to the darn hospital and hAte lugging a 30 pound back of books...but in the midst of it all it never really is that bad. so far. i hate doing careplans and getting all obsessive compulsive over my meds the night before, and trying to fall asleep. i hate our navy blue uniforms and the crushing guilt that comes with wanting a cigarrette midway through my shift (i'm trying to quit.) but i love love love being able to pass meds and do patient teaching and assessments and the rare occassion when i actually feel useful to the staff nurses and cna's. as a cna myself i can only imagine that it would be frustrating to be surrounded by a gaggle of students, none of whom can independently use a lift machine or know where everything is. all in all, i am SO glad when my last clinical day is over and sometimes i almost want to do it all over again. SOMETIMES.

TRINI_RN · Jan 21, 2008

I wouldn't say that I hate clinicals. However, there was one rotation that I dreaded waking up for every morning. My instructor was great, the patients were wonderful.......but, the people that worked on the floor were horrible! As soon as the found out they had "students" alot of the Nurses and CNA's dissapeared and left us out there on our own. Never mind we each had 2-3 patients and only one instructor between the 7 of us. Some of the staff was so mean to us, one Nurse even told me "I am not here to teach, you need to go find your instructor" when I asked her a question about something in the chart of one of her/my patients. There were some people that were a pleasure to work with, but almost all of them were resource/float nurses. When it was all said and done I breathed a sigh of relief, and when it was time to evaluate the floor I wrote a very long statement. I outlined all of the bad, and the good that happened.

danh3190 · Jan 21, 2008

I was lucky to have one rotation at the end of MedSurg that was the opposite of 2bNurseCadet's. I actually heard the nurses talking among themselves and being happy that they had students assigned to their patients. Granted, on the 3rd rotation we weren't that much of a burden on them and maybe we were even saving them some time, but it did feel good to be wanted.