Never wanna take students again.

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I totally get it now. As a student, I thought it would be great having students around, but after last week, I don't think I even wan to take students EVER!

Granted, I've been on the floor around 9 months, and shouldn't even take students, the students are assigned to individual pts and not the nurse.

I had a LPN in a LPN-RN program. Within 5 mins, she shares that she has been a nurse for 20 years and doesn't see the point of being here. She helped me do a dressing change on a pt with an stage 4 ulcer on the coccyx. While lifting her, I tell her not to pull on the bottom, but from the shoulders and knees, she scoffs and continues. I ask her to step away. Pt was on tube feeding and I had paused it before starting the dressing change, but I had also spiked a bag of antibiotics and wanted to be sure it was running before I continued and asked her to turn the pole towards me so I can be sure. She presses buttons on the feeding pump and IV pump and the tells me the feeding is off. Im in the middle of the dressing change and say, I need to see it (the iv pump and now feeding pump) and asks again for her to turn the pole and she insists that it is off. I stop in the middle of my dressing change and go to look at the pump. Take her aside and tell her not to come back in my pts room.

This isn't the first time have worked with students like this. I once had a guy nurse that just knew EVERYTHING there was to know about nursing. It was painful talking to him.

I just can't believe how obnoxious some of these students are. I totally get why so many nurses can't stand taking students. We do have awesome students every now and then, but it seems most of them take up space and talk all day.

Rant over.

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Oh dear. I hope you feel better after this post. I really do.

I fear the can of worms may be again opened up, however.

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Ha. Doesnt know the difference between an IV pump and TF pump but doesnt think she needs clinical experience. That is some scary impaired thinking.

Copy the facts in this post and write an incident report about the lpn-rn student who stopped the antibiotic and refused to follow instructions.

Send an email to your manager about the incident.

Some people are too shady to work in healthcare and should be weeded out.

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I hope you discussed this with the students' clinical instructor as well, so that it can be addressed per school policies.

What's a guy nurse? Is that like a girl doctor?

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What's a guy nurse? Is that like a girl doctor?

Not nearly as well paid or educated, no.

Don't know why I thought that was relevant.

*sigh*

Oh dear. I hope you feel better after this post. I really do.

I fear the can of worms may be again opened up, however.

I actually looked for similar threads before posting mine. Is this a common topic?

Moreso students wondering why we don't have time to "train" them.

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Moreso students wondering why we don't have time to "train" them.

And said students being certain that nurses are paid for taking students. And nurses should appreciate the astounding amount of "help" that a student gives. And students directly arguing against experienced nurses who tried to patiently explain the trials & tribulations that students can potentially bring. And in general displaying the entitlement factor that some (not all) students possess.

And said students being certain that nurses are paid for taking students. And nurses should appreciate the astounding amount of "help" that a student gives. And students directly arguing against experienced nurses who tried to patiently explain the trials & tribulations that students can potentially bring. And in general displaying the entitlement factor that some (not all) students possess.

Yea. That too.

I can see how that would have been frustrating, but don't let those couple of experiences with "bad" students ruin those with future students. Students can tell when a nurse does and does not want to be working with them. Certainly, there are students like these that cause problems or potential safety hazards, but most of the students I have encountered don't have the guts to do something like that, are eager to learn, and are more than willing to let you take the lead when that's what you are comfortable with. With that said, I'm not sure why that student wouldn't turn the pole towards you unless she knew that she had done something wrong, and hopefully you addressed the issue with someone other than the student. That doesn't sound like the kind of person that belongs in nursing.

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