Just wanting to vent .....

Boog'sCRRN246, RN · Mar 17, 2011

So I have no one that I can vent to and I really just need to get this out so if you read this fine if not oh well haha.
So a short background this is week 35 in clinicals ... 16 in fundamentals and week 19 in med surg (we have 3 med surg rotations). One would think by now someone SHOULD know how to do the fundamentals like putting a patient on a bed pan, emptying a foley bag, putting on a brief, giving a patient a bath, transferring a patient from bed to wheelchair (for discharge), and what to do with the bed pan after the pt. uses it. Ok I only wish I was making these things up and all of this happened within two days and by the same person. I mean serisouly how are they still here and haven't failed out yet? I just don't understand and I'm tired of pulling her weight. I could understand if it was things that no one really has experience in BUT these things should not even be questioned right now.
UGH ok vent over I feel better.

I hate to say this, but sometimes clinically weak students slip through the cracks. I remember being in lab one day close to the end of LPN school; we were practicing some skill and someone asked this girl to go get a bed pan. Well, she came back with a frying pan and a roll of duct tape :lol2: I'm not sure where in the world she got these items (they certainly weren't kept in the lab) or what she expected us to do with them (after we picked ourselves up off the floor from laughing), but she graduated and became licensed soon after. Who knows, maybe she became a wonderful nurse...or maybe there's a nursing home out there where all the residents have frying pans duct taped to their behinds.

OB-nurse2013, BSN, RN · Mar 17, 2011

Oh my gosh..It wasn't my fault...I just thought the handle on the frying pan would be handy for pulling it away from the patient...

akanini, MSN, RN · Mar 17, 2011

Frying pan and duct tape? THAT is hilarious!!

kbm318 · Mar 17, 2011

I hate to say this but sometimes clinically weak students slip through the cracks. I remember being in lab one day close to the end of LPN school; we were practicing some skill and someone asked this girl to go get a bed pan. Well, she came back with a frying pan and a roll of duct tape I'm not sure where in the world she got these items (they certainly weren't kept in the lab) or what she expected us to do with them (after we picked ourselves up off the floor from laughing), but she graduated and became licensed soon after. Who knows, maybe she became a wonderful nurse...or maybe there's a nursing home out there where all the residents have frying pans duct taped to their behinds.[/quote']
Haha that is hilarious thanks for making me laugh!

orthonurse55 · Mar 17, 2011

Have you reported her incompetence to your instructor? I am a CNA instructor and I often find out WAY after the fact that a student has been "carried" by their partners throughout clinicals. By the time I find out, it's often too late to give them poor grades and/or kick them out. I would rather know immediately so I could address the problem and hopefully turn it around than have someone slip through the cracks.

Boog'sCRRN246, RN · Mar 17, 2011

Frying pan and duct tape? THAT is hilarious!!

It's a mystery to me to me to this day as to where she got those things. I tell that story quite a bit and usually no one believes me at first, but, really, you just can't make something like that up!

cheezwhiz · Mar 18, 2011

i suck at cna skills too :crying2:

like no matter how hard i try, i cant make the bedsheets ever look as nice as everyone else does :crying2:

maybe i should quit nursing school :crying2::crying2:

DarkBluePhoenix · Mar 18, 2011

i suck at cna skills too
like no matter how hard i try, i cant make the bedsheets ever look as nice as everyone else does
maybe i should quit nursing school :crying2::crying2:

lol. Me neither. I just can't get them tight and neat

That Guy, BSN, RN, EMT-B · Mar 18, 2011

It's a mystery to me to me to this day as to where she got those things. I tell that story quite a bit and usually no one believes me at first but, really, you just can't make something like that up![/quote']
I had duct tape all the time with me in my backpack. It was just a small roll and was smashed flat but you never know when you need it!
ANd no this story is not about me.......I would have used a wok

kbm318 · Mar 18, 2011

Have you reported her incompetence to your instructor? I am a CNA instructor and I often find out WAY after the fact that a student has been "carried" by their partners throughout clinicals. By the time I find out, it's often too late to give them poor grades and/or kick them out. I would rather know immediately so I could address the problem and hopefully turn it around than have someone slip through the cracks.

No, I haven't mainly because I'm not really sure how to approach my instructor with the situation. I don't want him to think I'm like trying to cause trouble or that I think I know everything, because believe me I don't at all.

i suck at cna skills too
like no matter how hard i try, i cant make the bedsheets ever look as nice as everyone else does
maybe i should quit nursing school :crying2::crying2:

No don't quit!!! That's not how I was meaning it at all, I suck at making the sheets look nice the way I was meaning it was not that they suck at the skill its that they literally don't know how to do the skill at all. But please don't think that u should quit!

I had duct tape all the time with me in my backpack. It was just a small roll and was smashed flat but you never know when you need it!
ANd no this story is not about me.......I would have used a wok

Haha it's like everyone always says duct tape is good for EVERYTHING!

OB-nurse2013, BSN, RN · Mar 19, 2011

It's Man Vs. Wild: Nurses Edition -Whens its just one nurse against those 80 yr old demetia patients, and all you've got is your duct tape, a frying pan, and your will...who will survive?????