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Just want to say thanks to everyone for the advise it helped. I understood that this may be her way of coping but coping like that should be kept to herself especially if the mother is in a room right across from the nurses desk. What every happened to if you don't have anything nice to say don't say anything at all? But really thank you all!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry you didn't get accepted but don't give up!

First off just want to say hi to everyone Im new to this site. Just need a little advise about something that happened today that is really bothering me. Im a first year 2nd semester nursing student doing an OB rotation. I was at clinicals today and a mother delivered a 34 week old baby that unfortunately demised. The delivery was around 5am in the morning and the parents requested that the baby be kept in the nursery because there was family coming that would like to see the baby. The nursery is only used for blood draws, hearing test & so patients are not able to go in or even see in for that matter. This was my first time seeing a demised baby and it really upset me. I know that this is part of life an all but it hurt anyway. So heres the issue. A nurse came on shift around 7pm From the minute she got on the floor she was complaining about one thing or another. She went into the nursery and the first thing she did was ask why is this still here ( referring to the baby) another nurse responded that the family had asked for us to keep him in the nursery because family is coming by to see him. The first nurse said well why cant she keep IT in her room. It shouldn't be here IT should be in the morgue. Again this baby was not taking up needed room he did not have an infectious disease he was just unfortunate. I let my mouth get the better of me and asked this nurse why was this such a big deal?? She replied because IT shouldn't be here IT should be in the morgue we can get IT whenever the mother asks for IT. Of course this nurse was not very pleased and quite frankly I didn't care. As I was driving home I started to question myself about why I wanted to be a nurse. I don't know that I will be able to work along side of some one with an attitude like this. And unfortunately this is my 4th clinical rotation and there seems to be a nurse like this at every one. Did I over react?? Is this just something as an experienced nurse that I will learn to handle? It wasn't the just the death of the baby that upset me it got me more when the nurse was referring to this baby as an IT like IT was a parasite or something.

I have heard from classmates that Oaktons program is very good. It seems that you learn alot and that they make you comfortable doing patient care. However they are very expensive. If you are already comfortable with patients I suggest you go elsewhere. There are alot of programs throughout chicago at much cheaper prices and less time but you don't get the same attention from the instructors