My overall clinical experience has been great. I've not been treated bad at all, word quickly gets around that I have a lot of experience as a medic, and the nurses have always treated me very well and involve me in everything that is going on.
This week I had L&D.. unfortunately due to covid we only get 1 shift in L&D and the rest are in postpartum. On arriving to the L&D unit, my school preceptor introduced me to the charge nurse who immediately ignored me and continued to actively pretend I was invisible for the entire shift. At one point I actually asked her a question from 2 feet away and she literally ignored me and didn't answer. In the last hour of my shift, she even had a delivery of one of her own patients and didn't bother to even tell me it was impending, and certainly didn't come get me.
Thankfully the rest of the L&D nurses and docs were awesome and involved me in 2 other deliveries including a pretty extensive PPH resuscitation (she made it).
Don't know if it was because I was a man or not, don't really care to make that distinction, just crazy that she'd take a charge nurse position on an L&D unit and not prepared or willing to have students. L&D is literally a student rotation for every single healthcare school on the planet.. EMTs, medics, LPNs, RNs, medical students, NP/PA students. If you don't like students, find a different unit.
You posted this thread under the Male Student Forum. If was not intended to be a male student issue, you should have posted it the General Students forum.
FiremedicMike, BSN, RN, EMT-P
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I posted this thread.