nursing students: your job is to learn, not to criticize. you don't know enough to criticize what you see. you need to sit down with your coloring book and color. when you graduate, if you graduate, when you pass your nclex, if you pass your nclex, when you get a job as a nurse, if you get a job as a nurse, when you've been working for six months on the floor, if you last six months on the floor, then you will be in a position to judge things correctly. until then, you're just another student that may or may not be around next semester. so, no one's going to listen to you, and no one gives a damn what you think is proper nursing care or what you think is not proper nursing care.
of course there are horrible nurses. but for all anyone knows, you're lining up to be the next one.
Plato - come on - get a grip. Since you're such a wonderful nurse, show the students how its done. Just curious - what kind of nursing do you do???
This is an online forum--I've never treated a student nurse bad in the real world. Of course, I've never actually had a student nurse, so...
Anyway, I work on a telemetry step-down unit. Mostly CABG patients from ICU and cath patients from the cath lab. I'm a brand new nurse myself, so I still have a lot of student in me.
I do agree, to some extent, that certain nursing students do exhibit an amount of "I-know-it-all" attitude, there is no need to generalize all of them into a "shut up and color" category.
Most are bright and eager to learn from an experienced nurse, such as yourself.
Let's face it, some nurses are battle axes. They're mean, negative, condescending, uncaring, self-centered, lazy, neglectful incompetents. But where do they come from?
I am wondering which one prompted this....well, to be frank.....RUDE thread.
I do agree, to some extent, that certain nursing students do exhibit an amount of "I-know-it-all" attitude, there is no need to generalize all of them into a "shut up and color" category.
Most are bright and eager to learn from an experienced nurse, such as yourself.
Go easy before you scare someone off, will ya?
Oh yeah, like I'm going to scare off someone who feels called by God to be a "good" nurse. Sure I might scare off the one who wasn't sure if there was more money in marketing or nursing, but not a "good" nurse. And one is a "good" nurse before they ever go into nursing school. And they know they are after their first clinical.
Wow, I must say that was pretty rude. I'm a nursing student myself and I never exhibit a know-it-all attitude. Not all nursing students have that attitude, but I will admit that some do. I do know that I want to become a good caring nurse and I also know that I don't want to become a nurse with an attitude like yours. Take it easy on us, we simply want to learn.
Actually I was just truthfully wondering what would have prompted someone to start a thread "nursing students shut up..."
A bad day at work? A student who questioned you about something you were doing? Maybe you overheard students criticizing a friend or co-worker and it offended you. It certainly seems you have a negative feeling toward students, and I wondered where it came from...or maybe you were just venting.
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The thread originator has been suspended for a week due to TOS violation per first post here.
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Very concerned that this is coming from a NEW RN... suffering burnout already. Please review your threads and take a look in the mirror.
There are still some 25+ year nurses who are still passsionate about nursing, warts and all---like myself and many of our members. We won't let our young be eaten if we can help it.
Plato
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This is an online forum--I've never treated a student nurse bad in the real world. Of course, I've never actually had a student nurse, so...
Anyway, I work on a telemetry step-down unit. Mostly CABG patients from ICU and cath patients from the cath lab. I'm a brand new nurse myself, so I still have a lot of student in me.