I thought it would be fun to start a thread dedicated to the things we hate that happen to us as students! Let's try not to focus on the annoying classmates we have but rather things like:
I HATE IT WHEN
I find out my patient has MRSA after working with him for 4 hours including bathing AND toileting assistance
I'm in the middle of a head to toe assessment and I reach for my pen light only to find the battery is dead
I'm changing a patient on contact precautions and I get an unbearable itch in my eye!
My glasses start to slip off my face while my hands are covered in poop!
The automatic blood pressure cuff inflates and the velcro comes apart and pops off the patient's arm lol
Some part, usually the thermometer, of the VS machine doesn't work!
You tell your patient not to get up and you find him in the bathroom
I need to assist a patient quickly and spend 13 seconds trying to put on the gloves because they get stuck in a roll on the back of my hand
I gotta think of some more and I'm sure I'll be adding to this list real soon!
I hate it when I lose an awesome watch (there was a rotating penguin as the second hand!) and have to buy another, less awesome watch.
Also, I hate it when the LPN I'm working with (as maids at a motel--summer job for me, anything but nursing job for her) tells me every other day, 'How are you going to handle *insert whatever* when you're a nurse?' She panicked because I haven't taken a medical terminology course (it's blended into our Foundations and Assessment classes) and wrote out a report for me to read--nevermind that I have made it through a year of clinic so far and haven't completely failed:clown:
I can never find a patient's chart when I need it, even when I've come into the facility on my own hours, TWICE, on two different days, just to look up the information I need.
When I need access to the MAR, or the cart, and the nurse is MIA.
When a full assist patient is choking on food and TURNING BLUE and I ask for help from the nurse in the room and he tells me that, "I am not that patient's nurse. You will have to go find that patient's nurse".
When I have to put gloves on and my hands are sweaty.
When I am doing a sterile procedure and tell my CI that I want to bring in an extra pair of gloves, just in case (they teach us to do this) and no one in the facility can tell me where an extra pair of sterile gloves are....and of course, they rip as I'm trying to get them adjusted!!!
When I cannot say the name of a medication properly and my clinical instructor looks at me like I am a Loony Toon! I'm trying!
At least I can look back at all of this as learning experiences!!!
Actually had a nurse that referred to herself as Nurse Ratched..........she wasn't joking.....and was way more nuts! Thank goodness that clinical rotation is over!!!!
Some part, usually the thermometer, of the VS machine doesn't work!
You tell your patient not to get up and you find him in the bathroom
I need to assist a patient quickly and spend 13 seconds trying to put on the gloves because they get stuck in a roll on the back of my hand
Story of my life!! Also I have had the MRSA thing happen to me twice -- fund out pt had MRSA and another had some VRE infection after bathing them (one even pooped in the tub!)
I hate it when a student will ask a question every other statement on what the instructor just said and it will be right on the screen and you can never make it the whole way through lecture.
I also hate when we have a 10 min break and students come in 30 min after the time to be back
HyperSaurus, RN, BSN
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I hate it when I lose an awesome watch (there was a rotating penguin as the second hand!) and have to buy another, less awesome watch.
Also, I hate it when the LPN I'm working with (as maids at a motel--summer job for me, anything but nursing job for her) tells me every other day, 'How are you going to handle *insert whatever* when you're a nurse?' She panicked because I haven't taken a medical terminology course (it's blended into our Foundations and Assessment classes) and wrote out a report for me to read--nevermind that I have made it through a year of clinic so far and haven't completely failed:clown: