jamie32764

I'm in my 2nd semester of nursing school and have med/surg and OB clinicals this semester. I have to say I'm a bit bummed out (as are my classmates) by our clinical experience so far. In our OB clinical, the nurses seem somewhat receptive to having a student under them, but at the same time nobody seems to go out of their way to actually try to teach us anything. One night, sitting up in the nursery waiting for babies to be born, there were 5 nurses that stood there the entire time ******** amongst themselves about how there's not enough coverage....for 3 hours. When I say stood there, I mean literally. The other hospital where we have our med/surg clinical, the nurses don't just seem like they don't want to be bothered, they're downright rude and nasty......to the point of one nurse waving her finger in some of my classmates faces and telling them to "go somewhere else"! I understand that everyone is busy, but why do you have to be miserable too? I'd rather the nurse tell my instructor they don't want a student then to not get anything useful from my clinical experience. It's not a very good feeling when you get home after a long day! Last semester our clinicals were at a nursing home. Of course the atmosphere wasn't that great but all the nurses were very nice and took time to show us everything they could even though they had 20+ patients. Just thought I'd get some opinions from those who have been in the field for a while! Thanks!

I'm in my second semester of nursing school so I haven't seen too much yet like most of you have. I pretty much have an iron stomach, so I don't worry much about heaving. Passing out is more my thing. I went in to watch a woman get an epidural and made it through the procedure but had to make a quick exit before I hit the floor. I started getting really really hot, then my vision started getting splotchy. I had to sit on the floor right outside the door. The other student that went in with me said she could actually feel the heat radiating from my body...lol So, needles in the spine...NOT my thing!!