Whenever I'm at clinical I feel like I don't know anything. I've been a nursing student for 7 months now and I just feel like I don't know a darn thing. Now I know that I know a lot more than I knew when I first started out but still... I dunno. Sometimes when I ask nurses questions they seem kind of rude, cocky, or stuck up and act like I should know the answer. When I ask my instructor she says LOOK IT UP. And I feel like she's judging me too, and also thinking I'm stupid for asking certain questions and all that. Is this just a typical feeling at clninicals? My instructor is kind of intimidating so maybe thats the reason? I'm scared to even ask her questions cause she kind of gives me an "are you kidding" look. For ex. at pre clinical on wed I was looking at my pts Kardex and I asked what DM was because I momentaarily had a brain freeze. This was funny because just 2 weeks ago I took an exam on diabetes mellitus. My teacher just said "are you serious?" I don't even think she told me the answer I think another student did. Things like that make me scared to ask her any questions because it feels like she will be judging me and thinking "wow, how did she make it this far without knowing that", or she'll say Look it up, or give me and "are you serious" look. Its just so frustrating. I don't want to fail this semester because I'm supposively doing "bad" on clinical. Maybe its just because I'm unsure of myself? Isn't it better to be unsure of yourself than to be sure of yourself and do something drastic like commit a med error, or something else that could harm the patient? On mid term evaluations my instructor did tell me that I need to become more sure of myself at clinical but I just don't know how to do it. Ahh this is so confusing and stressful. Anyone have any advice... or feel the same way I do about clinicals?