Im here to complain. you can too:)

pghnurse527 · Apr 20, 2012

I am so thankful to be done with clinicals FOREVER!!!
My complaint is that it seems like every single job wants at least a year of experience. No wonder retention rates for new nurses are so terrible! New grads are taking whatever they can get so they can apply for the job they really want in a year. If more facilities would just hire new grads, maybe they wouldn't move around so much.

I feel you on this one! You bring up a great point about the retention rate, never thought of that.

SC APRN, DNP, APRN, NP · Apr 21, 2012

We just had a our lead instructor talk to our class about bullying and lateral violence, some classmates were not talking to each other like professionals it actually got pretty ugly. An hour later I was doing a validation in the lab, and the CI was talking to me like the students in question. I just smiled and keep focusing on passing my skills for that day. I think they should lecture themselves first. Where do they think some of the students learn how to speak and interact with coworkers? Lead by example instructors!!

missdirection928 · Apr 21, 2012

The irony of nursing school is that we're about health promotion, but to hell with our own health: our sleep, our eating, our physical activity, our stress relief! We're all about taking care of other people's families, and never get to see our own. Nursing school is the perfect breeding ground for future martyrs.

I am sick to death of the guilt that comes along with not being able to spend time with my family and friends. Along with that, the stressed out attitude that I tend to give off when I am with friends and family because of the guilt I have for all the studying and homework I should be working on at the same time.

Pneumothorax, BSN, RN · Apr 22, 2012

I am sick to death of the guilt that comes along with not being able to spend time with my family and friends. Along with that, the stressed out attitude that I tend to give off when I am with friends and family because of the guilt I have for all the studying and homework I should be working on at the same time.

Yeah.!!!! My parents live 1500 miles away. And every single time I get chewed out by them when they decide to call bc I don't call enough. (mind you I've been living on my own/out of state for 3years. ) everytime I try to explain how busy I am or tired an they're like. Blah blah blah u can always pick up a phone. Lol. All I really want to do is sleep lololol

QuarterLife88, MSN, RN, NP · Apr 22, 2012

Well now that it's coming to an end it must be said: I hate the fact that I spent my very first med-surg rotation on an ortho floor. I hate bones, joints, hips, knees, the whole lot of it. What a godforsaken boring floor, and I am resentful of the fact that none of the disease processes that I spent the last 8 weeks learning about ever appeared so it all remained in theory, while the rest of my classmates were put on cardiac floors and such. Nope, on ortho it's all about pain management. Blah. Wlorse is that down the line, our program has an actual class that focuses on ortho so I will have do this again.

/whining

lumosnox · Apr 22, 2012

I'm pre-nursing right now (will be in the nursing school in the fall) and can I just say, I can't believe people have white scrubs as uniforms?! I thought that didn't happen anymore! My school's are BRIGHT red, you can actually spot a nursing student as far as the eye can see, haha.

I'm not looking forward to getting up that early. My school purposely prepares us for that though, you have to take physiology in pre-nursing (obviously) and it's only offered at 7:18am, monday through thursday. Losing another two hours is going to HURT.

lumosnox · Apr 22, 2012

Well now that it's coming to an end it must be said: I hate the fact that I spent my very first med-surg rotation on an ortho floor. I hate bones, joints, hips, knees, the whole lot of it. What a godforsaken boring floor, and I am resentful of the fact that none of the disease processes that I spent the last 8 weeks learning about ever appeared so it all remained in theory, while the rest of my classmates were put on cardiac floors and such. Nope, on ortho it's all about pain management. Blah. Wlorse is that down the line, our program has an actual class that focuses on ortho so I will have do this again.
/whining

Ahhh, I'm with you! Finally someone else who despises bones/joints! I have a serious aversion to them, I'm so sorry you got stuck on an ortho floor! I will rue the day that happens to me. I went to work with my physical therapist aunt once...that was a bad choice on my part.

Pneumothorax, BSN, RN · Apr 22, 2012

Well now that it's coming to an end it must be said: I hate the fact that I spent my very first med-surg rotation on an ortho floor. I hate bones, joints, hips, knees, the whole lot of it. What a godforsaken boring floor, and I am resentful of the fact that none of the disease processes that I spent the last 8 weeks learning about ever appeared so it all remained in theory, while the rest of my classmates were put on cardiac floors and such. Nope, on ortho it's all about pain management. Blah. Wlorse is that down the line, our program has an actual class that focuses on ortho so I will have do this again.
/whining

Ya isn't that fun? They teach us all that junk just to NOT see it in person lol.

I did an ortho rotation, it wasn't bad but you are 100% correct ab it being allllll about pain mgmt.

FORTHELOVEOF!!!! · Apr 22, 2012

OMG, I HATE ORTHO. I accepted a nursing intern position and I purposely asked if they had ortho patients on their floor, I would've turned it down in a heartbeat. This was the only clinical that I hated! My patients all had broken hips or knee replacements and it's like a rule that if you break a hip or knee you are over 300 lbs!! Nothing against the overweight but being overweight and non weight bearing with a hospital that d/c's catheters the morning after surgery is hell on the back! So glad it's over, I would take a job in nursing home before an Ortho floor, love geriatrics but using the reference because of big pay difference! Glad I'm not alone!

Certifiable, BSN, RN · Apr 22, 2012

I actually don't mind the 5am wake up... it's later in the day that I have problems with- specifically at 1pm. My brain just stops. Say what?

I hate the unfair grading.

DLS_PMHNP, MSN, RN, NP · Apr 22, 2012

With my student days behind me...I hate that I'm not student anymore. Nursing life was so much simpler then.

I agree. I'd go back to nursing school in a heartbeat. You can go home at night and not worry about your pts, your charting, or whether you'll be mandated the next day.

MatthewSN, BSN, RN · Apr 23, 2012

LMAO- I hatttttttte ATI, I feel like my teachers rely on it way too much. Has anyone had to do the C-Diff clinical reasoning scenario????