I'm sure many of you know the type of person I am getting ready to describe. Today in clinical, this guy, who we will call Francy, had a patient today that wanted some Pepsi. Well, the unit was out of Pepsi, so Francy went up to the clinical instructor and said "My patient really wants some Pepsi, and we are out! What should I do?" and the instructor, completely suprised and irritated at the same time replied "Get her something else...." Anyways, this guy had the audacity to leave the hospital, go to the gas station and get some Pepsi for the patient. I mean, seriously?! Why are some of these people complete tools? This is the type of person that would be at an intersection, press the button to cross the road which would light up to tell him not to walk, stand there waiting even though there is absolutely NO traffic and wait for the little light to say cross. This stuff aggitates me to no end... Ok, vent over.
Ok, just my personal opinion and i may get flamed for this...but i'll dare say that when the two of you students actually do graduate, I'd much rather the nurse that goes above and beyond be the one taking care of me than the one who's gonna make a face if i so much as ask for a soda. Seriously, dude...get a life.
If he left the floor (not to mention, the hospital) without telling his instructor (can't imagine the instructor would have approved), he committed one of the cardinal sins of clinicals. You NEVER leave the area without communicating with your instructor. EVER.
Hopefully he also checked patient diet to make sure pt. wasn't NPO or on restriction...some cardiac and/or psych pts. can't have caffeine. Or DM.
It doesn't matter if he was or not. We weren't allowed to leave the campus ever due to insurance reasons. If one of us had left we would have been kicked out of the program. period.
One of my clients in my first semester did not have any starbuck milkshakes left, so I got him a few after my shift, since it was my last day at the LTC facility. My instructor was ok about it, and it made my day when my client told me I will make a great nurse.
nurse_mo1986
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Ok, just my personal opinion and i may get flamed for this...but i'll dare say that when the two of you students actually do graduate, I'd much rather the nurse that goes above and beyond be the one taking care of me than the one who's gonna make a face if i so much as ask for a soda. Seriously, dude...get a life.