CoCoBn

Congrats! I take the beast in 32 hours. My tummy is in knots and I keep getting waves of anxiety. I wish this was over already.

Maybe my school is different but we are to stay out of the nurses way. Our instructors go in early to get patient info and they assign our patients to us. We know in advance what needs to be done and what procedures are to be done. We take care of the patient (to the extent of our skill level) our nurse knows exactly what we will be doing that day so the only interactions we have are brief.

I barely finished this past semester without a nervous breakdown due to a psychotic clinical instructor. I did not realize it is so common. I spent weeks of actually being physically ill, having panic attacks and high blood pressure daily. It was ridiculous. I was so relieved when it was over, all I could do was cry all the way home. I am so glad it is over and I pray to God that I don't have to see her again. Nursing students are between a rock and a hard place when it comes to instructors. There really is no way for you to speak up without putting your butt on the line (at least at my school) so you just have to suck it up and try to blend into the background as much as possible.