Failed Clinical

[jazhao]

Ok I am not bashing on my instructor or blaming on my failure. I just need some advice on how to do better in clinical. I don't know if going to a nursing home and volunteer and talking to residents will help.

P.S. tip again not bashing on my failure in clinical, but those who are starting clinicals next semester this is advice not bashing on anyone or blaming anyone, be prepared to do adapt to caring for your patients and don't do it book by book. That's all I have to say. Just giving some advice. I feel really ashamed that I can't adapt and had I adapt and adjusted my care, I probably wouldn't post about my failure, but I'll admit it was my poor judgement and my lack of preparation of not having experience that led to my failure. So another tip, get some experience and volunteer or do anything with parient interaction. Don't follow the same mistakes I made. That's it, not judging or blaming anybody.

[TheDudeWithTheBigDog, ADN, RN]

Ok I am not bashing on my instructor or blaming on my failure. I just need some advice on how to do better in clinical. I don't know if going to a nursing home and volunteer and talking to residents will help.

In clinical, treat it as your job. You're a nurse or an aide (depending on how far into school you are) for just that one patient. All the care that you're allowed to do is your responsibility (it technically isn't, but if you want to learn, assume that it is). If there's down time, get with your teacher for any opportunities to do other things that your patient doesn't need (if someone needs a foley catheter put in, maybe you can do it). If there's nothing else you can do, talk to your teacher about your patient's care and start putting together everything you're learning in class and apply it to your patient. Everything you're doing with that patient, ask yourself why. If you don't know the answer, ask your instructor. That's what they're there for, to teach you. If you work hard enough, your clinical can teach you way more than your classroom.

Just go in with the mentality that you're going to learn about every aspect of care for your patient for that day, and perform every aspect of care that you're allowed to. It's almost idiot-proof. As long as you're actually trying, failing clinical almost takes deliberate effort to fail.