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'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.
Indeed, there are. I had a delightful time working with a second degree nursing student a couple of years ago. She was engaged, helpful, willing to learn, and asked great questions. She created a beautiful health board for me tackling consent for my HS students. I was actually sad to see her go!
On the flip side, I have also had some less then pleasant students. I had one student that was a practicing nurse getting their BSN. This person had more nursing experience than I did, but had never worked at student or in community nursing. They decided from day 1 that they knew more and this was a waste of their time, despite my discussion that every area of nursing is different. They were constantly late and after showing interest in the fact that I teach health, used every excuse to leave early when I went to go teach health. This included the first class this student tried to observe, had a coughing fit, interrupted my teaching to hand my a note saying that cough meant she had to leave for the day that moment. I sat down with the student and talked about her attitude and ways to improve the rotation. I did discover this student loved paperwork and doing hearing testing, which is why they passed the rotation. But that eval was meh because even after the talk, the attitude didn't improve much.
School nursing is a different world and some students just aren't interested and may not be the best at faking it, which stinks for them, really. My community rotation in nursing student was at a clinic at a homeless day shelter. I loved it and it made me fall in love with community nursing. But the friend that was in the clinical with me hated it; but she didn't show it and was awesome to the patients and staff.
JenTheSchoolRN, BSN, RN
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Indeed, there are. I had a delightful time working with a second degree nursing student a couple of years ago. She was engaged, helpful, willing to learn, and asked great questions. She created a beautiful health board for me tackling consent for my HS students. I was actually sad to see her go!
On the flip side, I have also had some less then pleasant students. I had one student that was a practicing nurse getting their BSN. This person had more nursing experience than I did, but had never worked at student or in community nursing. They decided from day 1 that they knew more and this was a waste of their time, despite my discussion that every area of nursing is different. They were constantly late and after showing interest in the fact that I teach health, used every excuse to leave early when I went to go teach health. This included the first class this student tried to observe, had a coughing fit, interrupted my teaching to hand my a note saying that cough meant she had to leave for the day that moment. I sat down with the student and talked about her attitude and ways to improve the rotation. I did discover this student loved paperwork and doing hearing testing, which is why they passed the rotation. But that eval was meh because even after the talk, the attitude didn't improve much.
School nursing is a different world and some students just aren't interested and may not be the best at faking it, which stinks for them, really. My community rotation in nursing student was at a clinic at a homeless day shelter. I loved it and it made me fall in love with community nursing. But the friend that was in the clinical with me hated it; but she didn't show it and was awesome to the patients and staff.