ms.ludes

Dansko shoes are amazing...costly, but they also last for years. Never would I buy anything else and I do 12 hours!

I am a fourth semester ADN student, getting ready to graduate in December, and I am not getting along with my clinical instructor so well. I have never had a problem in clinical's before and always get complimented on my confidence and ability. Today, I was taking care of two patient's; one who was independant and discharging home, and another who had a high INR and would have went home had her INR been better. I didn't do much today, went through discharge instructions, helped my fellow classmate who was drowning, and take my INR patient to the bathroom 4 times. In post conference, I stated that I had kind of a boring day. My teacher FLEW off the deepend. I did not say that I was bored, just simply that I had a boring day. I probably should have choosen the word uneventful instead of boring, but I didn't. My instructor proceeded to grill me on pathophysiology and that come December I am a new grad and if I am bored, I must know everything. Two of my other classmates were sitting right there...I felt as big as a pencil eraser. As soon as I was in the parking lot alone, I lost it. How can I handle four more clinical days? What can I do to make my instructor see that I am not trying to be cocky, I do not know everything, I just had a slow day? I tried to justify what I said and change my words and that didn't work. I was cut off and skipped for the rest of the conference(which really was fine with me because I probably would have balled like a baby had she talked to me again.) I am so frustrated and want to do so well, but I always feel so awful. Any suggestions?