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Hey I've made a post about this in the past, feel free to check it out! Good luck 😀 https://allnurses.com/general-nursing-student/advice-for-1st-1048118.html

Good luck and congratulations!

That's odd. Mine shows up as this;

I understand that skills do not encompass thinking as a nurse. I never claimed to think like a nurse. I was just answering a question regarding my experience. There's a lot that goes into thinking like a nurse. Do I believe I'm at that point yet? No, not yet.. but I feel like I am starting to, slowly. Not fully. but in some regards, I believe that I do. Hopefully, by the time that I graduate in a few months I'll have a better understanding of the nursing thought process. 😀

My apologies, I didn't realize that it did, the only thing I see is "years of experience" listed.

I've worked the past 4 years as a tech. 2 years M/S and 2 years Trauma ICU in a Level 1 trauma center. We do Foley insertions, lab draws (with a butterfly or a VAMP if they have an A-line), trach care, hypopharyngeal suction, set up pressure lines, assist in bedside procedures with the team, help in codes, ECG monitoring, dc A-lines (except for Femorals), etc. Is that not experience?

Thanks! I will check your post out and hopefully I will be able to take some good tips away from it!

I have, and I disagree. I don't see anywhere in this post where I've been disrespectful. What I do see is, a lot of people being disrespectful towards me, and towards nursing students in general. I believe people took my post the wrong way and assumed that I was disrespecting nurse's, which I wasn't. Maybe I exaggerated when I said the percentage of nurses whom are snobby and bitter, but I didn't say anything out of line. It's troublesome so many of the responses here are so negative about students being on their units. That's perfectly fine. When I graduate in a few months, I will NOT be that nurse who gets ill and takes my stressful day out on a student who is there because that's where they got placed for their rotation.

I don't expect anything to be handed to me. I work hard, and actually have never had anything handed to me. And, I am open to advice as well as criticism, I look at both as learning opportunities.

No, no lol. I didn't fall off the planet. It has been difficult trying to respond to everyone's comments is all and I've been studying. 😁

Is it necessary to be so scathing? And to answer your question "You truly think that you know better than this pt's nurse where her attention should be?", no I don't. But to assume I'm not looking at the whole picture and to think I'm only worried about that one finding is inaccurate. I looked at the "whole picture" and talked about it with my peers before I even told the nurse. So please, continue to belittle me for my "book experience", since that's the only experience I have after all, and because you know my experience.

Thanks for the response. I appreciate your honesty as well as everyone else's. I have realized that I shouldn't be quick to blame the nurse, and as many of you have stated it's the instructor's responsibility. My clinical group met before class today and decided to inform our lead clinical instructor who is over all the clinical groups at my university of our concerns and experience with this particular instructor. She will be making a surprise visit soon to see firsthand what we experience weekly from this instructor. I apologize if I have came off to be a arrogant or to have a superiority complex. That was not my intention when I posted, I was just looking for feedback which I've gotten. I've received helpful feedback and then some not so helpful feedback. I appreciate everyone's time for reading and responding to my post. Respectfully,

How is it that I have a superiority complex as a student? I don't believe that I am better than anyone, just as I don't believe a nurse is any better than I am. I believe in equality. Also, I can't help that my instructor is unreliable and is a poor instructor. I don't expect the nurses to owe me anything, I would just appreciate if I weren't looked at as a burden when I stick to myself mostly or when I ask a question about something that I've been taught is concerning.

Excuse me, but I'm not sure where I have been out of tone at all. Furthermore, I am far from being an idiot. You don't know me at all, and I've done nothing but ask a simple question. I apologize you took my post the wrong way. I show respect for everyone, no matter who it is.

Sorry, it's difficult to respond to each comment. But my instructor, well she's not very reliable. She tells us to be at clinical at 0600 and we get there at that time, and she strolls in around 0630 usually, she's not shown up on time even once. The other day, she worked the night before, came down at 0630 to tell us she had to give report and would be back down in 30 minutes. 2 hours went by before she came down. But that's besides the point, when we're on the unit she is usually difficult to find or off the unit doing whatever it is she does. I'm not new to Healthcare, as I've worked as a tech in the ICU for the past 4 years at the largest teaching hospital in my city. I guess I'm so used to being able to ask a simple question to my nurses at work without an issue or without rude remarks. I don't expect a nurse to explain everything to me, or anything for that matter, and I usually keep my questions to a minimum because I like to research it myself. But when I ask the nurse a question that has something to do with the patient's health that I find concerning, I'd like just a little reassurance or something to ease my misunderstanding of the situation. I'm not one who hounds the nurse about every little thing, because I feel that I am pretty knowledgeable in regards to patient care and disease processes. I don't understand some of the rude comments here, I didn't say anything out of line or not true for what I have encountered. I go to clinical, do my assessment, analyze my findings, come up with a few goals for my patient and mostly stick to myself, unless I find stuff that is abnormal or concerns me or the patient. I look into the patient's history and diagnosis before I start assuming things that will make me look silly. It's not necessarily fair to the patient to get the short end of the stick when I tell a nurse something I've found and they're too busy or whatever the case may be to go follow up. I understand most of the reasons why you all don't necessarily like to have a student, but when the student really isn't bad and is just there to learn and care for the patient, why blow them off? I don't mind being told "wait a few minutes and I'll explain" or "could you ask your instructor, I'm busy right now" but if I just come to you with something that I and myinstructor agree is important and you say to me "well that stinks" or "I don't remember what the normal is" that is crazy. Thank you all for your responses, I will try not to be in the way so much and will keep what you all have said in mind.