cricketeeny

to Jelli Belli, I was really heartened to hear what you wrote about liking psych... in my class, i think i'm one of 2 (out of 76) who like it... i kind of feel freakish disliking med-surg so much (like, why do i want to become a nurse then?) - even my med-surg instructor gave me a really weird look when she asked me what i wanted to go into. Then again, she' s also an instructor who has no problem being a b**ch, which is my other major complaint about nursing school - i know we all have our own complaints - but some of the instructors have been the very unencouraging, embarrassing you in front of the patient, creating an environment of fear type that it really makes learning suck, and takes the entire beauty of learning something away and replaces it with drudgery and spite. (i'm feeling bitter, in case you haven't noticed). If you're an instructor: students don't learn well when they're so anxious they can't think straight!! There's even research done on that!! Ok. I'll calm down now. :rotfl: cricket

Hey there, I understand disliking a rotation intensely - I've been hating med-surg, which is mostly what we do.... and psych was what I liked the best, to my surprise! For me, in the inpatient facility that we were at, I felt that the staff was really supportive of each other, that the docs and nurses and techs really worked as a team, and that people had genuine compassion for their patients. I thought it was fascinating, and very humbling, to learn why the different people were there... to me, it's been the most human place in the hospital that I've experienced. nursing student (ADN)