If you want to ignore me and look at me cross eyed when I ask for report or try to give you report, or if you want to just flat look through me as if I were not even there, then guess what?
Do your own vitals!
Do your own code browns.
Make your own beds with the patients
I will sit and practice therapeutic communication with them while you wipe them down.
Now if you want to engage with me and show me a little respect/kindness then,
If you want to ignore me and look at me cross eyed when I ask for report or try to give you report, or if you want to just flat look through me as if I were not even there, then guess what?
Do your own vitals!
Do your own code browns.
Make your own beds with the patients
I will sit and practice therapeutic communication with them while you wipe them down.
Now if you want to engage with me and show me a little respect/kindness then,
I will do all your vitals.
I will do all your code browns.
I will make your life a breeze.
The choice is yours.....
Who cares. I can do it all on my own in half the time it takes to look for the students to show them anything. or wait for their instructor to do meds with them LATE ON MY PATIENT.
No one respects nurses any more than I do. I understand what the job entails.
I am respectful and my attitude is excellent.
All I ask is this,
if my nurse is having a crazy day, why not say, "listen, its really crazy for me right now so please bear with me while I get caught up and hopefully we will get some time to talk a little later....in the mean time it would be awesome if you could do x, y, z blah blah, i think you get the point ....
That would take about 5 seconds yes?
Or just let me shadow you? I wont utter a peap. I can learn a great deal just be watching an experienced nurse. The shocking part is that at my hospitals the doctors are the ones that are nice and want to teach....had a doc yesterday doing an I&D on some MRSA infected abcesses....he saw me and said get in here I want to show you how to properly pack these wounds. He was kind and patient.
Thinking back, at each hospital I have been at thus far on average, the docs have been far nicer than the nurses which is just exactly opposite of what I would have anticipated....
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Most of my clinicals where in a teaching hospital and the drs(residents) where a lot nicer than any of the nurses as a majority. In OB esp they would try to teach us and explain procedures, how to read the monitors,etc.
I highly doubt that. Student nurses don't yet have the skills or knowledge to make a RN's "life a breeze".
I'm guessing OP has billions of dollars that will be donated to my unit to increase staffing back to the levels that I agreed to when I got hired. Oh, and perhaps back to the acuity levels I agreed to when I got hired. And to pay for a hitman to take out everyone related to Press Gainey, Magnet and Joint Commission. (Ok, don't have to to kill them, but just make them all shut down and never pester us bedside folks again.) Can't think of anything else that a student could do that would make my life "a breeze."
The best thing you can do at clinical is to show up, keep your mouth shut, do what you are told, don't do anything stupid that might kill somebody, and not treating every little thing as some sort of personal affront.
Lol. Me too. A week or two ago you said something I disagreed with (I have forgotten what it was now) and I thought to myself, "which one of us got up on the wrong side of the bed today, me or OCN, because something is wrong with this picture!"
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Lol. Me too. A week or two ago you said something I disagreed with (I have forgotten what it was now) and I thought to myself, "which one of us got up on the wrong side of the bed today, me or OCN, because something is wrong with this picture!"
My clinical instructors always made sure we were showing up before the nurses changed shift and got report, therefore the students didn't have to inconvenience any of the nurses by having them give report twice . It astounds me that the clinical instructors I run into now as a nurse don't seem to have any idea what time they need to get their students to our unit so that they are a help and not an incumbrence to the nursing staff! I bow down to every nurse I worked with as a student, now that I see what a pain the butt students actually are. None of them are allowed to pass meds, so all they do is vitals and some minor wound care . They are basically in my way and not a help at all. I have a new respect for my school now that I can see what other schools have their students doing or should I say not doing during their rotations.
Our nursing students last year were showing up about 7:15-7:30 and then all bent out of shape (much like the OP) because no one would repeat report for them and assessments were well underway. Well sugar, report is over by then and you shore done missed it.
The shift stared at 6:45. If you wanted to hear report, you had to be ready to hear it at 6:43. We were not going to wait for you, even if you were extra cute with perfect make-up and not a hair out of place when you (finally) arrived.
Who taught me? Nursing faculty, that's who. In my day staff nurses were not expected to assume any responsibility for students.
Ditto, and I just graduated in May. Except for my final preceptorship, where I worked one on one with a nurse, my instructors were responsible for my education. At one clinical placement, the nurse taking care of my patient would teach me and let me assist her with her other patients, but she served as a preceptor herself, so she liked to teach.
I want to teach someday. When I get more experience, I'd like to be a preceptor at my facility to work with the new nurses. I love teaching my patients and actually wouldn't mind having a nursing student take a patient of mine. I work nights, so that doesn't happen. I can definitely see, though, how someone who doesn't think like me would be irritated at showing up for work with a whole lotta extra work thrust at them that they didn't sign up to do.
i gotta throw this out there- please do not think that OP is representative of all nursing students. have a 'tude with me, ignore me. i will suck it up, keep trying my hardest, and go home and read up on whatever question i had that you were too busy to answer. dialogue is great but my primary goal in clinical is watching every move you make- you don't owe me a d*** thing. i have text books and seasoned nurses for instructors at school to answer most of my questions. I am a baby at the hospital, i am nothing. my wants/needs are pretty much last priority. and i'm okay with that- people seem to want instant respect these days, and they seem to not want to have to work for anything. this is the google/wikipedia/textmessage/youtube generation and if you can't find an answer immediately it's someone else's problem? i don't think so. suck it up, realize that not everyone sees you as God's gift, and do the best you can to keep up. it's called weeding out; either you can hang or you can't.
. It astounds me that the clinical instructors I run into now as a nurse don't seem to have any idea what time they need to get their students to our unit so that they are a help and not an incumbrence to the nursing staff! I bow down to every nurse I worked with as a student, now that I see what a pain the butt students actually are. None of them are allowed to pass meds, so all they do is vitals and some minor wound care 
. They are basically in my way and not a help at all. I have a new respect for my school now that I can see what other schools have their students doing or should I say not doing during their rotations.
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