RN Students

If they are only students, how are they RN's already? I don't understand???

Remember, that if you are a nurse, then you were once a student.

(Sorry, I'm not meaning to sound picky, but it is Friday and my brain is drained on Fridays.)

Originally posted by RN760

Seems to be working out pretty well...no hand holding, etc.

I think we just gathered what you think of nursing students... :stone

I'm also confused by the student/RN ... which are they?

Originally posted by sagarcia210

If they are only students, how are they RN's already? I don't understand???

Sounds like an RN-BSN or RN-MSN scenario to me.

I was a nursing student once. I think very highly of them. If they need hand holding, then I hold their hand, if they need walked through something, I walk them through, if they need a kick in the butt, I kick them in the butt. Each student is unique and a collegue (sp?).

I also think very highly of new grad RNs/LPNs. They deserve adequate preceptorship and not being thrown out to the wolves so to say.

I was a nursing student once. I think very highly of them. If they need hand holding, then I hold their hand, if they need walked through something, I walk them through, if they need a kick in the butt, I kick them in the butt. Each student is unique and a collegue (sp?).

For the love of god thank you. I wish half of the nursing staff where we do clinicals had the same mind set. I'm so surprised to see them cringe at the thought of having a student nurses on the floor. It seems like they just completely skipped the "student nursing" role and became RN's by attending lectures and that's about it. They don't seem to remember that they too were once clinical students.

3rdShiftGuy, I'm doing my preceptorship in about 6 weeks. Where are you located???:roll

PS-There are also some nurses that work in my neck of the woods that are quite nice too.

Originally posted by 3rdShiftGuy

I was a nursing student once. I think very highly of them. If they need hand holding, then I hold their hand, if they need walked through something, I walk them through, if they need a kick in the butt, I kick them in the butt. Each student is unique and a collegue (sp?).

I can't thank you enough for that, 3rdShiftGuy ... it made my day!

I'm sure your students come away with a richer clinical experience for having worked with you!

I agree with Dustin.... Yay to 3rdshiftguy and others who support students. I haven't had a bad experience with nurses yet during clinicals but, I know there are a lot of students who had. I keep wondering as I'm doing preceptorship why it is always said that "nurses eat their young". Haven't seen any evidence of that myself but I do understand that it happens to others. If an experienced nurse shares his/her expertise and years of real knowledge with a student, the student will be a better nurse. Don't you want "better" when your colleagues retire and must be replaced with new grads?

Originally posted by RN760

What do you think about nursing students? Our facility just brought in "students", but they are already's RN's. Seems to be working out pretty well...no hand holding, etc.

Other than double checking I'm up for anyone who can take a couple pts off my hands and make my day a little easier. One of the keys to making good nurses is the post school preceptorship. Mine was three months. How long of a preceptorship program is everyone else out there getting or gotten?

Originally posted by LydiaGreen

I agree with Dustin.... Yay to 3rdshiftguy and others who support students. I haven't had a bad experience with nurses yet during clinicals but, I know there are a lot of students who had. I keep wondering as I'm doing preceptorship why it is always said that "nurses eat their young". Haven't seen any evidence of that myself but I do understand that it happens to others. If an experienced nurse shares his/her expertise and years of real knowledge with a student, the student will be a better nurse. Don't you want "better" when your colleagues retire and must be replaced with new grads?

That's because we leave no bones. Nursing is very clicky. If your not in the click, they are waiting to pounce!

Weren't we all students at one time ??????????????? Let's stop eating our young!!!!!!!!!!

thanks for your support. i am in the first year of my clinicals(second semester). and i have been extremely blessed!!! my patients have been lovely and i've had two wonderful clinical instructors:) i've had such wonderful "first experiences" that i'm actually dreading the time when all this splendor and warm-fuzzies is going to disappear. i know personally that if i should find myself in the position to "hand-hold" when i become and "accomplished" nurse , i am going to do it with a smile. all because i was treated so wonderful. so as the saying goes, a little niceness goes a long way. thanks for all of you "hand-holding" veteran nurses:kiss

They are RN's who are enrolled in a Nurse Residency Program. Apparently you have to already be an RN to participate. Has anyone had any experience with a program like this before? They are going to receive their Masters at the end of the program.

I didn't mean to offend anyone with the hand holding comment, had a rough day with some students. Of course, I remember when I was the student causing the rough day!