Quick question - I've been working on my current unit for 6 years now, and I have never seen this happen before. We have a group of nursing students now who are early in their education and stay for the whole shift. But they come up to us about half an hour after we get out of report and want us to stop what we are doing to give them report. I can't believe that! We just got there and haven't even seen the pts yet and they want us to stop what we are doing to give them report! Every other group I have ever seen either listened to report with us and then asked questions later, or else their instructor listened to report and then talked to them about it. I understand that this is a young group who might not be able to catch everything in our real report, but that's why they can ask questons later, IMHO. I think they read the charts and stuff too, but they do that at the beginning of the shfit right when we get there. And since we don't have the luxury of having time to read charts, I'm sure they already know way more about the pts than I do at that point! When I was in school, we had to go the day before clinical and read out pts chart, and then got a brief report from the instructor. What do they do on your unit? Oh, and I'm not talking about precepted senior level students, but clinical groups.
I've said it a million times before - I love teaching! I love being a preceptor for new grads, too! But not at the expense of pt care. The last time they were there, I had a pt who was tanking, and the instructor got mad at me because I told the student I couln't talk to her just then...of sorry, this I'll just have the guy with the O2 sat of 68 wait while I tell the student about the guy down the hall!!!!!
