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I'd like to know why students hide in the break room or hide at the nurse's station while call lights are going off and the RNs are running around like chickens w/their heads cut off. They'll even sit right next to a ringing phone while you're in the middle of doing something important. I never did this as a student. And why do they get to the hospital the same time as I do and want report from me instead of listening to it w/the rest of us?

Specializes in midwifery, NICU.

irishnurse,,you sure are having a hard time on this thread! You posted what was frustrating YOU, how the students are acting where you are. We all know that not all students are lazy, heck, some of the ones I have had this year, are worth their weight in gold! (NOT for picking up the slack, just for learning and being aware, for being sponges and soaking everything that I teach them up!!!)

Students, be aware, there will be times, when you are a nurse, when you do have students who are not giving it 100%. You, the ones who posted back to irishnurse are probably the ones who give their all! Who go that extra bit and learn their stuff. Just does not happen in every country, every school, across the world. The others who couldn't care to reply, well they might not care a jot!

I WILL say again, my students this year have been outstanding, I have thanked them for their input, their questioning minds, this allows me to re-think my practice at times.

But, for irishnurse.you should feel comfortable posting your vents here, I feel you were right in your questioning of what you observed. This is what YOU saw! These situations were with students YOU worked with.

All the students need to be aware, its not personal, look to your class and compare yourselves to the ones who are scraping by, who dont really give too much about it. Compare that to yourselves, the ones who care enough to protest and try to make a difference, then you will know.

Lots of luck to you all, be you Nurse or student, best wishes for sucess in your field!

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I'd like to know why students hide in the break room or hide at the nurse's station while call lights are going off and the RNs are running around like chickens w/their heads cut off. They'll even sit right next to a ringing phone while you're in the middle of doing something important. I never did this as a student. And why do they get to the hospital the same time as I do and want report from me instead of listening to it w/the rest of us?

:lol2:What were you allowed to do as a student when you were in nursing school during ur first year?

Did you know to answer phones and call lights your first semester?

This is my first semester of nursing school, and when I am in a clinical setting, I am only assigned to 1 client only. I am not to answer any phones, nor answer any lights. My clinical instructor speaks to us the first 15-20min, and then we tend to the pt, therefore the only turnover we here is what the nurse we are with tells us.

Some nursing students maybe lazy, and if they are, they won't last. But I am speaking for a majority who aren't by saying know all the facts before you pass judgement.;)

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As 1st semester students, we were told to not do anything with patients other than those assigned to us because we do not know what restrictions might apply (i.e. needing assistance to get up...). I will go into a patient's room if they see me and call me in and try to find out what they need...but then I go to my CI and the patient's nurse to see if it is ok to do what they want. I'm not being lazy but am trying to protect the patient from harm and following my CI's wishes.

exactly:idea::balloons:

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Because they are obviously intimidated. Especially if they are in th beginning of their clinicals. Personally, I would never even think about answering a phone somewhere that I didn't work. I would have NO clue what to say because I don't work there...most likely it will be someone that I don't know asking me a question that I don't know the answer to. I don't think that it is laziness or selfishness.

And I agree with the person above. It isn't a nursing student's job to ease the workload of the nurse. They are there to learn.

I totally agree. I am in my OB rotation right now and my CI expects us to answer the phone. I avoid the phone like the plague because I do not know the unit and would probably be more of a hindrance than a help trying to figure out what the person on the phone wants. Sometimes when I answer the bells I miss out on possibly learning something new from a nurse. I try to go around with a nurse if they don't mind if my patient is all set.

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irishnurse,,you sure are having a hard time on this thread! You posted what was frustrating YOU, how the students are acting where you are. We all know that not all students are lazy, heck, some of the ones I have had this year, are worth their weight in gold! (NOT for picking up the slack, just for learning and being aware, for being sponges and soaking everything that I teach them up!!!)

Students, be aware, there will be times, when you are a nurse, when you do have students who are not giving it 100%. You, the ones who posted back to irishnurse are probably the ones who give their all! Who go that extra bit and learn their stuff. Just does not happen in every country, every school, across the world. The others who couldn't care to reply, well they might not care a jot!

I WILL say again, my students this year have been outstanding, I have thanked them for their input, their questioning minds, this allows me to re-think my practice at times.

But, for irishnurse.you should feel comfortable posting your vents here, I feel you were right in your questioning of what you observed. This is what YOU saw! These situations were with students YOU worked with.

All the students need to be aware, its not personal, look to your class and compare yourselves to the ones who are scraping by, who dont really give too much about it. Compare that to yourselves, the ones who care enough to protest and try to make a difference, then you will know.

Lots of luck to you all, be you Nurse or student, best wishes for sucess in your field!

I disagree. She can come here and vent all she wants. But she can also come here and do it constructively without causing everyone to get upset and cause everyone to put their guard up.

This is a student section. It's primarily for nursing students to get support from one another because they are the ones who understand what each other is going through. If someone wants to jump in the trenches and start badmouthing ALL student nurses, they are going to come to the defense of each other. It's human nature.

I think it could have been done much more tactfully without causing such a commotion and without being so generalized.

As we are all aware, most nursing students are nursing students because they are eager and excited to learn. It's hard enough just getting into nursing school, I doubt there are many of us out there that are going to blow it by being lazy during our clinicals.

If one or two students have not been pulling their share, then I see no harm in coming here and questioning the work ethic of certain nursing students. But to generalize all students like that is going to cause an uproar.

If she really has spoken to her manager who spoke with the CI who spoke with the others in charge, and nothing was done, then there might be more of a problem at that particular school than we all know about. All I've ever heard is the one who causes the problem is out of there in a heartbeat and that's that. The behavior does not continue.

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irishnurse,,you sure are having a hard time on this thread! You posted what was frustrating YOU, how the students are acting where you are. We all know that not all students are lazy, heck, some of the ones I have had this year, are worth their weight in gold! (NOT for picking up the slack, just for learning and being aware, for being sponges and soaking everything that I teach them up!!!)

Students, be aware, there will be times, when you are a nurse, when you do have students who are not giving it 100%. You, the ones who posted back to irishnurse are probably the ones who give their all! Who go that extra bit and learn their stuff. Just does not happen in every country, every school, across the world. The others who couldn't care to reply, well they might not care a jot!

I WILL say again, my students this year have been outstanding, I have thanked them for their input, their questioning minds, this allows me to re-think my practice at times.

But, for irishnurse.you should feel comfortable posting your vents here, I feel you were right in your questioning of what you observed. This is what YOU saw! These situations were with students YOU worked with.

All the students need to be aware, its not personal, look to your class and compare yourselves to the ones who are scraping by, who dont really give too much about it. Compare that to yourselves, the ones who care enough to protest and try to make a difference, then you will know.

Lots of luck to you all, be you Nurse or student, best wishes for sucess in your field!

She can vent all she wants. But, venting and insulting are two different things. As i said in my other post- WHY go directly to a STUDENT NURSING forum JUST to BASH student nurses. Her OP did not bash the students at her hospital, but ALL SNs. It was just rude and uncalled for- no matter how you look at it.

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