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Hey, needing to vent...I wish so bad that the nurses at clinicals would treat the student nurses at least like human beings. We are there to learn, and to a degree I think we help them out and save them time by doing "little stuff" they don't have time for. Last week a pt. kept asking for the nurse and was crying in pain, I went to the nurse to tell her what was going on and before I could say anything she said "I can't get a thing done with you student nurses talking to me and asking me questions all the time" I told her the problem anyway and she says, "next shift can deal with the pt" which was 30 minutes away. Her supervisor told her not ever to talk like that to us again, we were there to help--but out of 5 nurses only 1 is decent to us. Oh, the subject gets me so aggravated. I pray to God that when I am a nurse, I will take a second before I bite a studen't nurses head off and remember how tough things can get in school. PATIENCE is a virtue-just wish they knew that. We are supposed to take them cookies to clinical to thank them--and this will be sooo hard. I wish they could watch a tape of themselves and take a look at how they talk to us--nobody deserves to be so degraded! They should be ashamed!Sorry I have drug this on so long, I'm sure some of yall can relate. Thanks for the ear!

Well it doesn't necessarily get any better when they become co-workers either...

Hey, needing to vent...I wish so bad that the nurses at clinicals would treat the student nurses at least like human beings. We are there to learn, and to a degree I think we help them out and save them time by doing "little stuff" they don't have time for. Last week a pt. kept asking for the nurse and was crying in pain, I went to the nurse to tell her what was going on and before I could say anything she said "I can't get a thing done with you student nurses talking to me and asking me questions all the time" I told her the problem anyway and she says, "next shift can deal with the pt" which was 30 minutes away. Her supervisor told her not ever to talk like that to us again, we were there to help--but out of 5 nurses only 1 is decent to us. Oh, the subject gets me so aggravated. I pray to God that when I am a nurse, I will take a second before I bite a studen't nurses head off and remember how tough things can get in school. PATIENCE is a virtue-just wish they knew that. We are supposed to take them cookies to clinical to thank them--and this will be sooo hard. I wish they could watch a tape of themselves and take a look at how they talk to us--nobody deserves to be so degraded! They should be ashamed!Sorry I have drug this on so long, I'm sure some of yall can relate. Thanks for the ear!

Heheheheh Make them some extra special cookies! :devil:

Specializes in 5 yrs OR, ASU Pre-Op 2 yr. ER.
Well it doesn't necessarily get any better when they become co-workers either...

LOL this is true!

How about chocolate chip cookies a la Ex-Lax? :rotfl:

How about chocolate chip cookies a la Ex-Lax? :rotfl:

Add a dash of MUCOMYST! Yuck! :)

Specializes in 5 yrs OR, ASU Pre-Op 2 yr. ER.

How about washing it down with Go-Lytely lemonade (joke).

Man.... are we evil! I'm making my own stomach turn. Wonder how gross these baked goodies can get? :rotfl:

Oh yeah!!!! Kool-Aid made with Go-Lightly - They'll never even taste it!!!! :rotfl:

I think these are the best ideas I've heard from anyone ...he he he I'll let ya know how they like the cookies-hey, what's that i hear about putting visine in brownies goves you diarrhea? LOLThanks for listening and cheering me up

I'm just curious...is this a teaching hospital? A lot of the miserable nurses I ran into were at private hospitals -- they weren't used to having a lot of students around. I now work at a teaching hospital and, a lot of time at the nurses station, we have 4-5 student nurses, an attending doc, 4-5 residents, and at least 10 med students. We love the student nurses! I mean...sheesh...aren't we all always learning?

AhhhhhTsu_82 I feel your pain. We have been fortunate in rarely encountering the "nasty" nurse. Except for one floor that we were on for about four weeks. Yikes I felt bad for the nurses because I could see how heavy their pt load was and how little support/respect they were being given. Unfortunately even with that in mind, there were some situations I could not walk away from....and I ended up saying to my instructor at least once a week "Mrs. X, this is what I said, this is who I said it to and this is why I said it......" (As in like no I am not going to push that dilaudid through the IV I am an SPN and would like to stay in this program......) What do your instructors advise you to do? And how long do you have left? Either way I have mucho respect for bedside nurses, even the mean ones. I couldn't do it.

Good Luck Cookie!

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