RNs on my clinical unit are mean!

[julsywulsy]

Yikes, this is the 4th clinical day on the unit I have been assigned to and our co-assigned RNs are really mean and unhelpful. They really dont want to be bothered with students. They are nice to us when our instructors are around but when we are alone with them they snub us and are really un-cooperative and dont really seem to want to help us. At first I thought they were just busy but its been like this for 4 wks now. Did anyone inform them that they were going to be working in a teaching hospital?????

Have any other students encountered this? or am I just over sensitive? When I go into the unit to do pre-clinical analysis, the night shift team are really nice and always come over and ask me what I need and who is my patient and they give me alot of info and help.

Yikes, ???!

[Mudwoman]

I always loved having students, but then I enjoy explaining stuff and "teaching". Most other nurses don't. It isn't that they are trying to be mean. I had a nurse come and "give" me her student when I already had my own. She said to me that she just couldn't do it. The student got on her nerves which were already frayed. Don't take it personal. You will find one of these days when you are nursing that students do take your time and require patience if you are going to be helpful to them. Some nurses just aren't cut out for that. Thank goodness there are some that are.

[WDWpixieRN, RN]

Some nurses just aren't cut out for that. Thank goodness there are some that are.

Amen....and thank you! :redbeathe

:thankya:

You are a blessing to those of us students who are BEYOND harried and frazzled and feeling like such incompetent fools!! We want to be good nurses some day, too, and the help means more than words can express!!!

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[AfloydRN, BSN, RN]

I don't think anyone who graduates from nursing school does not encounter mean people. Face it, there are mean people in the world. You are there to learn, not do their job. Ask educated questions and ignore the ignorance. This too shall pass. Unfortunately, it's all part of the game. Welcome to nursing.

[cota2k]

I was fortunate while on med surg to get students from the program I had graduated from. I feel it provided me with an opportunity to show, rather than teach, the students why they are bustin their butts on meds, careplans, patho... I showed them a professional nurse. Also an opportunity suck up to a Clinical Instructor that was awesome!

[Firefly1009]

Wow if you think about it... if this is happening to students over and over again that would explain one of the reasons why its so divided! Nurses turning on each other! Well nurses turning on soon 2 be nurses! Sheeesshh! SMH.. there is no excuse! Just like nursing students have 2 deal with mean people nurses need to learn to be more patient and learn to deal with students in a better way! You treat people how you wanna be treated! That's how life is period.