AnnaT81

nurse: "I'm sorry I should have knocked! "

"people, we have a code brown!"

1. be friendly with coworkers cause you will need their help, and help others. 2. everyone deserves the same amount of care and dignity regardless of their socioeconomic background, culture, race, etc. 3. sickness affects people in different ways so always keep that in mind when they behave or react in wags that can be frustrating at times. 4. how to be an advocate for others. 5. and lastly, I learned to find my inner strength and patience I never knew I had. 5.

explosive poop!

It is so good to know that there are others out there like me :-) I am definitely the only one in my small nursing class of 20 students that suffers from this. Everyone else has formed clicks and I'm always the one left out. I feel intimidated by nurses at clinicals and am petrified of doctors since I know some of them can be quite condescending. My feelings get hurt very easily and last semester I almost cried at clinical one day when the nurse insisted that as a nurse I needed to come in and take charge of my patients. What happened was a confused patient kept refusing to get a bed bath and I couldn't convince her. I'm trying to not let these things get to me, but the truth is my social handicap has proven to be a real hindrance to my ability to perform. The fact is I am a very smart woman! I know my stuff, but am still so nervous in clinical. The funny things is that I work as a nursing assistant at a hospital so I should be completely comfortable in the clinical setting so I don't know what my problem is :-(