I'm new to this message board and haven't found a great way to search within the School Nurse Specialties section yet.
I have a student nurse who is completing a clinical rotation with me and am looking for ideas you might have. The student has been here once and was extremely disinterested in all of the information I had planned to share. I have stopped short of calling her instructor, and am going to give one more day to try and engage her and will call her out on her lack of effort if I need to.
Since that day I have pulled together some resources on various topics: webinars, journal articles, websites, and planned activities all pertinent to school nursing. I've also come up with some random extra ideas to fill her time if needed. That said, I'd still love to have a few more tricks up my sleeve! What do you do when you have nursing students?
I would start out the next meeting with a meeting of the minds. If she changes her attitude that day, then refrain from going to the instructor at this point. However, if that negative attitude rears its ugly head again, go for it, and evaluate accordingly at the end of the rotation. To think, some worthy would-be student was turned away from this nursing program so this individual could display a short-timer's attitude. I guess you won't be acting as a potential reference for future jobs, will you?
Specializes in Cardio-Pulmonary; Med-Surg; Private Duty.
I had ZERO interest in school nursing and ZERO interest in psych nursing, but I still paid attention, asked if there was anything I could do to help, etc., during those rotations!!!
It also sounds like the CI didn't give them any assignments to be completed during the rotation, which blows my mind. Every rotation, regardless of which class it was in, had paperwork that had to be completed EVERY clinical day, PLUS a project of some sort (a paper, a presentation, etc.) that had to be completed that semester.
We had to work on that extra project on our own time, outside of the clinical day, and outside of class time. PLUS we had some sort of project/paper/presentation that we had to complete for our classroom instructor every semester, separate from our clinical project/paper/presentation.
My mind is just blown at how lax this program's expectations are!!! Why didn't I have a cakewalk school like that one?
Specializes in M/S, LTC, Corrections, PDN & drug rehab.
Wow.. Dont snitch on her.. Maybe try to be more interesting?
Are you a nurse or nursing student? Have you been through clinicals? Your statement wreaks of immaturity & ignorance.
Be more interesting? Really? The student clearly isn't interested no matter what the OP did. Hell, the OP could've juggled batons on fire while doing a hand stand & the student still wouldn't have cared! The student's CI needs to know how she is acting & not being attentive during clinicals. No one in nursing school is above or better than any part.
The fact that you think it is the OP's fault leads me to believe you aren't in nursing school yet. One day, when you have students following you & they aren't interested in what you are doing, you will understand.
ETA: Looked through your post history. Yeeeaaahhh... ignorant says it all. But so does troll.
I am a current LPN to RN student in clinical, this is not a YOU problem but a student problem. Yes, I have had the most boring clinical on rotations but as a student you act like its the most interesting thing you have done your whole life because hey ya may learn something you didn't know before. Please tell her instructor this, she does not need to be a nurse until she learns common decency and that the world does not revolve around her. I work with too many of those types already.
You need to let her instructor know STAT. No way should YOU have to do all of this to engage a student. If she can't bother to show interest, then perhaps being told not to return might change her attitude.
I agree with this. When I was a student, I went out of my way to be engaged with each preceptor I was with because they were taking the extra time and energy to teach me and I greatly appreciated that. This student is responsible for her learning and needs to step up to the plate.
My community health clinical was in a halfway house for women who had recently been released from jail, with supplemental hours that I got by visiting the local homeless shelter. I didn't even have a specific nurse that I was paired with. It kind of sucked. I had to come up with a project on my own and implement it, so I coordinated an event to teach the women about breast self-exam and offer them free mammograms. It was a weird clinical...mostly I practiced my psychosocial skills and learned about working with vulnerable populations. I wish I had gotten to do a school nurse rotation. But I made the best out of it and used the time to learn what I could. If I could, I would tell this student to take responsibility for her own education.
I LOVED my school nurse clinical rotation, it's one of the reasons I'm one now!
Like others said, she definitely should have objectives/goals that she needs to work on. If she's in a BSN program she probably has weekly goals that she should be meeting and speaking to her instructor about.
BUT I was one of the few who enjoyed community nursing in my cohort. I remember different rotations and community events where most of my classmates would spend the entire time complaining. Some people are just meant for the acute setting and anything that doesn't involve it is a "waste of time".
You need to let her instructor know STAT. No way should YOU have to do all of this to engage a student. If she can't bother to show interest, then perhaps being told not to return might change her attitude.
^^^ This.
During my last semester, one of my clinical rotations was at an inner city school with a school nurse.
Heck to the no should you be going nuts trying to engage this student. If she is that dim witted to show such disdain at a clinical site, she should be evaluated accordingly. Doesn't matter where she is.
(Half of my week was at the school, the other half was my advanced med-surg rotation -- I showed equal respect for each, because that's.what.you.do)
Specializes in Nephrology Home Therapies, Wound Care, Foot Care..
I'm so sorry so many of you have had bad experiences with students. As a student, I have loved my out-rotations, and swallowed whole everything I was exposed to. Please know that there really ARE some students that very much appreciate all you do.
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