lesliedabbs

I am always so afraid that I won't wake up in time for clinical or a test (because if we are 1 min late, we will be sent home). So I set 3 alarms, my alarm clock, my cell phone alarm, and a computer alarm that I found online for free. I turn the volume up loud!

I think what makes nursing school so hard, for me, is that I am a huge procrastinator. I think one other thing that makes it hard is that we only get about 4 grades for the whole semester, and those are tests. We do get a "clinical" grade but it's pass or fail. Our final grade has to be at least an 80. Anything below 80 is failing.

Let me tell you something, I don't know how your nurses have been in clinicals (not the clinical instructor) but some of the nurses I've had have treated the students like pure ****. They have even gone so far as to say "Oh, I've given the meds already, sorry you don't have any to give" and when you look at the MAR, they were given 30 min after she/he told you that. These nurses are NOT the type to work in the interdisciplinary team or whatever... they're all for themselves, and guess what, that makes the patient SUFFER. We never had a conference room or anywhere to sit, so we sat in the hall once, out of everyone's way, we then had one of the nurses come down the hall and start ******** us out say "This is NOT going to work, you're going to have to move" and we politely got out of the way. Also, in their breakroom, we've had nurses being complete dicks to us, and we just kept going. The whole point to this, when any of you have student nurses in the future, please be nice to them, because I know how I feel about some of the nurses right now, and I wouldn't have their back for anything.

instructors i've had so far have been great! I love their knowledge... is that weird? hahaha

Many of the clinicals I have been to so far, the nurses have been complete *******. Now, let me say this, not ALL of the nurses have been, just a select few. My clinical nurses as of now, are completelyyyyy NICE and helpful! I would like to think it's because we're "in their territory" but from what I've seen, the way they do their jobs (giving the meds 4 hrs late...) I really don't think we're in the way, I think we actually make the situation BETTER. Any thoughts?