New Nurses Poorly Educated

jozie80 · Aug 24, 2001

The last day of my clinical rotation, the hospital let us know of the externships and how to apply. Also my school hangs postings for exterships. I also recommend looking at the job postings IN the hospitals, because lots of times they are not in the newspaper. I used to go to local hospitals and check their job boards monthly.

Good Luck!!

eventsnyc · Aug 24, 2001

Thanks Josie!

Best wishes, Christina:)

fergus51 · Aug 24, 2001

My school was terrible during clinicals. We had to be supervised by an instructor (not a staff RN) the first few times we did something. And we could not perform a skill on a patient that wasn't ours. Being that the instructors made up our assignments, it was really difficult to get all the skills you wanted to. Also on our practicum in 2nd year there was 1 instructor, sometimes 2, for 30 students. It was ridiculous. Assertiveness had nothing to do with it, we just had to wait our turn with the instructor and couldn't do anything on our own without permission.

Pam RN · Aug 25, 2001

I graduated in 1997 from a BSN program and felt completely unprepared. I started one IV and put in one foley my whole clinical time. My worst rotation was in Peds where the nurses were absolute witches. I would go to them and specifically ask if I could help them with anything and they just looked at me like I had told them to f--- off. They completely ignored me and my fellow students. It was pathetic. I also spent alot of time writing about unimportant s#&*. If there was one thing that would have made me fail that program it would have been the management class and nursing research. The two women who taught those courses were the only ones with doctorates in nursing and the only ones that could not relate to the students. So, the mentality is: it's more important to read a nursing journal than do basic patient care.