First week of NP clinical! HELP!!

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Hi Everyone! I am a nurse practitioner student and just started my first clinical rotation in Primary Care this week. Tonight, I am very discouraged and feeling frustrated with myself. This week, I felt completely out of my element and blanked on close to everything. Does this ever get better???? Has anyone else felt like this???

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Specializes in critical care, ER,ICU, CVSURG, CCU.

What real nursing experience do you have?

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3 years of ICU dramatization lol. just joking

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Specializes in Education, FP, LNC, Forensics, ED, OB.

Welcome to allnurses.com.

Thread moved to Student NP forum.

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Specializes in Clinical Research, Outpt Women's Health.

Every new job feels like that in my experience.

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I have been a nurse for 13 years and the past 7 I have worked in endoscopy in procedure rooms.

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Specializes in ER.
What real nursing experience do you have?

As oppose to fake nursing experience?

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Thank you...I hope this gets better.

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Specializes in Telemetry.

It will definitely get better. I was stressed out and felt lost during my very first week of clinical in a primary care setting. I felt more comfortable as I watched and learned from my preceptor. I asked questions about things I wasn't sure about and my preceptor was glad to answer and clarify things. I soon became more comfortable and finally stared to enjoy it instead of being scared.

best of luck to you Rameygurl!

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Specializes in Adult Internal Medicine.

You should feel that way! That's why you are there, to learn. What specifically bothered you? Can you make a plan to improve on that? If you can you will do just fine.

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Specifically, my preceptor also has a PA student who is getting ready to graduate and is far more advanced (rightfully so) than I am. The PA student is cold and ignores me. My preceptor expected me to be able to do what she does on my first day which didn't happen for obvious reasons. I hate to complain but the setup isn't appropriate because for the first couple of weeks, you need one to one training. I have trained so many nurses in the past and that's how success occurs. Hopefully, I can get past this as I am ready to quit my program.

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I know it, I just need to be able to apply it. I have resources and I keep a book of everything I have questions about. I guess the lack of guidance is making it difficult. I've trained so many RNs along the way and I know what works, this doesn't.

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