catgal

I am an ADN nursing student beginning my clinicals this fall. A few months ago I had the idea of getting a job in the health care field to get experience and make connections while I am in school. I decided to go for phlebotomy because it sounded interesting and the course fit in with my school sch. So here I am working at a hospital now and I am in my orientation process so doing things with supervision. I absolutely LOVED my first month. I was drawing blood and working in out patient setting labs. This past week they had me train in the actual laboratory "processing". It has been the worst days of my life!! There is ALOT going on and everything is completely new to me. The work itself is not bad but my "manager" who is suppose to be training me pretty much went through everything once on the first day and then just started working on her own and left me to remember like 1000 processes, rules, and steps to all these things. When I ask her a question she makes me feel stupid for asking and she straight up didn't tell me something important that basically ruined this patients blood sample and the tech called me into a another room and let me have it. I dont know what to do! One the one hand I want to try my best but I feel like I need to communicate without offending her that she isnt teaching me correctly...HELPP Is this what happens when you train as a ne nurse as well??

My mom is a nurse and when I told her I was going to change my major to nursing I thought she was going to be really happy but she said jabs about it..."ill believe it when I see it" and "what about medical assisting" which I thought was a diss because she thought I couldnt make the grades or something. It did bother me but like what alot of people are saying on here, that shows more about her issues than mine. She should be happy im challenging myself and setting myself up for a good future. On the bright side it toughed my skin alot so if/when I get crap from instructors It wont bother me at all haha. Noone knows what youll be good at/ enjoy better than you do, even your own mother. And I'm sure when shes older and needs help she will be happy that I can afford to provide whatever care she need.

I will take that advice about starting to study NCLEX questions! Thank you!!

Hello I am a nursing student in an ADN program. I have finished all of my pre-reqs and have been waiting on my schools waitlist for a year now. Finally my first clinical semester is around the corner. At first I was not nervous at all and the wait was almost unbearable, now as the starting date is around the corner(next semester) I am starting to get butterflies in my stomach. I have done very well in all my pre-reqs good grades in anatomy I and II, micro, and dosage cal. I especially enjoyed Anatomy I got a B+ in both but I sometimes would slack a bit, when I was trying with my all I pulled over 100s on my exams. This makes me confident I can pass my nursing exams...BUT i have no idea what they are like. I'm so scared that I wont be able to master the "nclex" style questions. Any advice, thoughts, tips, anything that will help me be prepared and less nervous about my first semester?