I overslept on clinical day!!!

Mkue · Oct 12, 2002

wow, you are lucky that she allowed you to stay. The clinical instructor that I have now will only allow 5 min. late, we have to be there by 6:45, if you are 5 min. late you go back home and make up the clinical on another day...

that is my biggest fear of being late for clinicals as I try to be 15 min. early, no later. But oversleeping can happen to anyone.

Glad you got to stay!

:)

boggle, ASN, RN · Oct 13, 2002

Check your student handbook on the policy for student tardy. Better to know the official word on consequences than worry or to be subject to an instructors arbitrary judgement.

If your school does not have an official policy, ....shame on them! If that's the case get your student nurses association to insist on clear policy that everyone follows.

Good luck with your clinicals (and with your alarm clock). :)

essarge · Oct 13, 2002

We are allowed to be late/miss one clinical as long as we call, anything after that is automatic failure of the clinical which in turn makes a failure in the lecture portion also (kind of a double edged sword). I missed one clinical because I was sick and called the night before. We were in maternity and I didn't want to expose any newborns/moms to whatever I had managed to pick up.

Now we are starting med surg so I'll have one more I can miss if I need to, but since our classes are excellerated (14 weeks worth in 6 weeks) I don't see me missing anything!

Rena RN 2003, RN · Oct 13, 2002

i can hardly imagine what i would do if i was late for clinical. i feel for ya, diana. i've overslept before a clinical but never to the point that i was actually late. just didn't have time to do the hair and make up routine. :chuckle

CATHYW · Oct 13, 2002

Hey! Don't be too hard on yourself. As long as everyone was still in preconference, and as long as your patient wasn't kept waiting, AND as long as you are usually punctual and your attendance is good, I don't think you have much to worry about.

Love-A-Nurse · Oct 13, 2002

i tend to agree with cathy.

Mkue · Oct 13, 2002

Our preconference starts at 6:45 anything past 6:50, well bye, bye. I have a lot respect for my instructor. The only student that she was sent home is also habitually late for classes too, or doesn't show up. :eek:

CountrifiedRN · Oct 13, 2002

Diana, I know how you are feeling! The same thing happened to me on our first clinical day of the summer semester, and I had an instructor that I had never even met before that day. Even though our group was just touring the unit when I got there, I felt like it really messed me up for the rest of the day.

But things turned out ok for me, as I'm sure they will for you. And now I have two alarm clocks set on clinical nights, both with dual alarms!

Best of luck with the rest of your clinicals!

TCW · Oct 13, 2002

Don't be so hard on yourself. I agree with Cathy also. As long as you are normally on time you should be okay. I am so afraid of oversleeping that I have 2 alarm clocks. I guess we all have some OCD in us. :) Good luck to you!

Tonya

TCW · Oct 13, 2002

Rn2bNC,

We must have been posting at the same time.

But things turned out ok for me, as I'm sure they will for you. And now I have two alarm clocks set on clinical nights, both with dual alarms!

Glad I'm not the only one!

Tonya

MelH · Oct 14, 2002

it's alright! now you know...have your mother call you or someone close to you in addition to the alarm going off-just so it doesn't happen again! good luck to you!