Starting out with difficulties

"He outright said that we are all competing for the same job in the end, and I am kind of scared that he is trying to 'out do' me. Any suggestions on how to deal with this problem or any advice on geriatrics in general?"

Easy- ignore him. You are not competing for the same job, unless you both want to work at the nursing home you are doing your clinicals at. You are not going to be stuck with him (hopefully) during every med/surg and critical care clinical in your program. Ask your instructor for a re-assignment of a partner. You shouldn't put up with arrogance. People like him are liable to cause harm to a patient because they think they know everything.

I agree with the above post. you'll find people like that all the time, just ignore his arrogance and do your own thing. Do not let anybody think they are better than you

thanks, I've got 9 more clinicals with him until we switch to residential where we are on our own. I've chatted with others who have come across him and they think similarly. I kinda feel bad for him though, but I guess some people are just that way :/

yeah just ignore it man, you will deal with more people like that later on in clinical and in the real world. its there personality, but if you network and get the experience and prove you are capable of performing well then you will be the winner. in my opinion its not even worth telling him how his attitude is but just let him do what he does and maybe tell him to do something here and there give him a taste of his own medicine. nursing school is like a survival match everyone competes and trys to bring everyone else down so they make it to the top then work together as a team and make something useful from there knowledge. just stand your ground though man it is what it is

I'm dumbfounded - not by your idiot classmate, but by your number of clinical days. In a semester, we did like seven days TOTAL.