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It was a big red flag to me too. I know dressing changes are all different but theres some basic knowledge/common sense for every type of dressing. She obviously has no common sense/clinical knowledge, First I had to gather all the supplies for her, then she tried to put a whole sheet of Maxsorb on a tiny wound. She oversaw two students doing a med pass, didn't know what most of the medications/orders were for (i.e. asked if she could substitute prilosec for an order of zantac), and didn't sign out the medications as they "popped" them, instead signed them out about 20 minutes after giving them to the patient, then realized she forgot two of them. One of the students handed me the cup of pills and asked me if I could double check them with her instructor standing right there who helped her pop them out. Obviously the instructor is not competent to do her job, that's why I have a problem when I have 4-6 students assigned to my patients. My DON is useless and really didn't care when I talked to her about it, basically told me that everyone needed to learn and I had to deal with it..that's why I was wondering the about legal aspect of these things...like whose license are they under, and are the students assignments still my responsibility, and if its possible/legal to refuse to have students take any of my assignment. (At least for my own knowledge until I find another job haha)

Is it a rule/law that as an RN you must deal with student nurses taking part of your assignment? Are the students working under my license or their instructors? If the patients are still assigned to me as an employee of the facility, in the end is the patient still my responsibility, including everything the student does/does not do? Don't get me wrong, I normally love students and love to teach motivated students. But as an RN assigned to 14+ patients on a rehabilitation unit, It is all I can do to get my own work done. When I have to oversee the 4-6 student nurses that are assigned to my patients and the instructor it is more then overwhelming. The instructor doesn't know anything about passing medications or doing dressing changes, and its concerning to me thinking that all of this is going on under my license/as my responsibility. Someone please help