I'm a final year student nurse and my mentor feels that I come across as overly cheerful, and that my patients see this as immature and unprofessional. She's raised it as a fairly serious issue, and...
FlowersInTheWindow replied to Blackheartednurse's topic in General Nursing
If anything, you sound like you're a genuinely caring person, and that's the kind of nurse I would want caring for my relative. We all forget things, and nobody can be perfect all the time, but we can...
FlowersInTheWindow replied to Lunah's topic in General Nursing
As a very new student nurse, I've been asked to measure vomit. I didn't mind until I poured it into the measuring jug and the smell hit me... Needless to say, my lesson for the day was that the smell...
FlowersInTheWindow replied to ~Mi Vida Loca~RN's topic in General Students
I don't think anyone is arguing that pre-req nursing students (by whatever definition) should be able to 'lecture' more experienced nurses. Using one description over a more complicated one, for the...
FlowersInTheWindow replied to ~Mi Vida Loca~RN's topic in General Students
I was accepted onto my nursing degree two years ago (deferred for a year, 'pre-nursing' for a year) and since then I've called myself a nursing student. Here in the UK we don't really have a...
FlowersInTheWindow replied to FlowersInTheWindow's topic in Nurse Disabilities
@ Wishfulthinking - Thank you for the encouragement! @ Silverdragon - Yes, I am in the UK. I'm going to have a meeting and assessment with the nursing branch of my uni's student support, so I'll ask...
Hi all, I'm going to start my nursing training in September and I've just been diagnosed with dyspraxia. This means I have problems with my hand-eye co-ordination, doing things quickly, spatial...