m&m0310
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Hanging IVs and programming the pump without the nurse being there to make sure I did it correctly. We aren't supposed to be giving meds but the nurse tells me to do so when she knows I'm not supposed to.
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I'm a nursing student and am currently in my 3rd semester of nursing school. Over the summer I got a job working as a nursing intern. The manager made this job seem like an opportunity that couldn't be missed. She said I'd be following the nurse and learning NURSING skills. So I accepted the job and quickly found out that this job was not what they'd told me it'd be like. On my first day I was told that I was to do tech duties like bathing patients, cleaning up after them, etc. And then if I was done with all my tech duties , I am free to follow the nurse as long as my patients don't need anything. I spend most of the day cleaning patients since most of them are total care, which means I barely get any time to follow the nurse and learn any nursing skills which is why I accepted the job in the first place. Another thing is that the nurse I follow has become relyung heavily on me since I started working there and send me on my own to hang IVs and do other nursing things for her so she can sit down and chart. I don't feel comfortable doing this at all but she says she "trusts me" . Not only that but she gets annoyed when I have to come in late because I had class in the morning or if I can't come in on a day she works. She's made some rude remarks before. The techs also take advantage of us being there and won't even help us with our patients if we need it. The management is also horrible. If I have questions and ask them to them in person they say "send me an email". I send them emails and they don't respond. It takes weeks to finally get an answer to a simple question. I just want to know if you guys think it's worth working here just to have some experience in my resume? These isn't even everything I've experienced in only the couple of months I've worked at that job. Please let me know if you have any advice! Thank you!