jumping through the hoops

Be a mentor and offer to help students with less experience than you have.

i have been an lpn for 12 yrs and i am presently in my last semester of rn school. i am finding the class room challenging but in clinicals i am disappointed, i feel like i am jumping through hoops. i presently work in a hospital and have done so throughout my whole career. i am either bored with nothing to do or i am expected to watch and learn how to do something that i do everyday at work. dont get me wrong i want to complete this but it seems to me like there is a better way of doing clinicals. i know that there are some lpn who are not experienced in hospital settings and need the practice but there are some of us who already know how to hang ivf and piggy backs, we access ports, we insert foley's, the list goes on and on. i have struggled with my attitude because it feels like a waste of my time. why don't the schools validate your experience and you skills somehow and place you in a clinical setting that is challenging? any pointers on how i can just survive this last semester of torture?

just stay under the radar and get it over with. this is your final semester and you don't want anything that will mess this up. you will learn all the "rn stuff" later on as ojt.

good luck with school!