Has anyone messed up really bad in a clinical and still passed

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"Bad" as in just totally had an off day and every little small mess up you could make, you made, with the teacher around to witness. Today was AWFUL. Every move I made, there my teacher was. It wasn't on purpose, I know. But still I don't know what was going on with me, but I am extremely bummed out by it because the last few, while I was not perfect, I still did pretty well. By the way, this is my first semester of nursing school. Really, just some encouragement would be great.

I had that day 2 weeks ago. It was awful. The day before I had felt so on top of things. It was one of those days where I thought, "Oh yeah, I definitely chose the right profession here." And then the next day I seriously felt dumber than a box of rocks. There was some bad family stuff that had happened the night before and I had barely slept. The whole clinical day was just a disaster. I completely blanked in the med room on why I was giving certain meds; I misheard the RN when she told me to flush an IV...I thought she said to take out the whole damn thing (thankfully I doubled checked and did not do this, although I looked like an idiot for even thinking that I should take out an IV on a patient that wasn't even close to discharge); during post-conference I almost forgot what one of my patient's admitting diagnosis was.

I could go on, but I'm embarrassing myself all over again. It happens. There's no way you could fail clinical for one day of that though.

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