The reverse end of "my preceptor hates me"

[NickiLaughs]

I worked my booty last night with my first crrt patient. All the other nurses were slammed so I also was helping them when I could... 7 am rolls around and I just finished cleaning room & getting all my numbers. I go out to my chart & chair next to room where all papers are & theres a student in my seat. I wouldn't have cared excerpt two things. She had moved everything around and when I went to get my stuff I had to work around her. She was so intent on reading the h & p on the computer. She didn't acknowledge me or move when I went to at least move my jacket she was leaning on (on my chair). I tried to hint I needed the spot to chart. When it was obvious she wasnt budging I walked halfway down the hall to get a seat & come back next to her.

Student nurses I love teaching & even if I'm not going to have you I will try to teach you something but if you come in with tunnel vision & don't see those trying to finish up and hinder them. You may limit your own opportunities.

[akulahawkRN, ADN, RN, EMT-P]

I would get the $^@& out of the way, even as a charting student, if an actual employee needed to use the computer. Maybe I'm weird, though.

Which is why I ask first... and charting doesn't take me very long at all to get through any given screen. Once I'm done with that screen, I'll "file" it and hop off if need be. I also look for those times when there are several computers available to do my charting. In other words, I do my charting around everyone else's so that computer use collisions don't happen. And you're not weird at all.

Next semester, chances are I'll have to get used to a different charting system and simply come up with a different workable solution so that I'm not a computer hog at whatever other site I go to.

[NickiLaughs, ADN, BSN, RN]

Yeah it was change of shift and the student was coming on, I just wanted to finish charting, give report and get the hell out. Normally not so passive aggressive. I have a bad attitude sometimes especially when tired and felt that if I said anything, it would have come out very rude and ******, and I never wanted to be the nurse who was that way towards a student.

Now that I've got some sleep, best solution would have been to say, "I'm sorry, can I have my seat back so I can finish my charting, I will be done in a few minutes and you can have it back."

[hiddencatRN, BSN, RN]

Some people don't have good awareness of their surroundings. Maybe it's the student blinders, maybe they are just unaware in general (like the folks who like to stand in the middle of narrow, highly traveled walkways). Either way, I don't think there's anything wrong with being direct.

[akulahawkRN, ADN, RN, EMT-P]

Yeah it was change of shift and the student was coming on, I just wanted to finish charting, give report and get the hell out. Normally not so passive aggressive. I have a bad attitude sometimes especially when tired and felt that if I said anything, it would have come out very rude and ******, and I never wanted to be the nurse who was that way towards a student.

Now that I've got some sleep, best solution would have been to say, "I'm sorry, can I have my seat back so I can finish my charting, I will be done in a few minutes and you can have it back."

I'd be more than glad to give the seat back to you, if asked that way, and I'll do it without grumbling... as quickly as I can.

[swirlo]

I'm a student nurse and wish I had one like you that would teach me. The nurse at the hospital I was suppose to get report on ran away and refused to give me report, let alone teaching me anything.

[Jmiami]

why hint? Cut to the chase and be direct, polite but firm. You have a job to do.

[frhw]

They probably dont realize what they are doing since they are so focused and stressed about passing their meds, charting a good assessment, not killing anyone, and impressing their clinical instructor that they dont realize that what bugs me the most about them is taking up my computer space. I just nicely ask them if they dont mind using a different computer and point them in the right direction.

I appreciate this. Some nurses act like they were never students.

Maybe you don't think you were like this tunnel-visioned girl when you were a student because.....you were oblivious... just the same!!

Be direct, but polite. That should be all you need. The passive aggressive tactics you used here...do nothing but just give you an excuse to get more upset when she doesn't pay attention.

We don't need to call this girl selfish because she's overwhelmed and has tunnel vision.

However, I wasn't there....if she really did notice you hanging around and didn't even say..."Oh do you need to use this?" Then yeah...probably was being disrespectful.

[blackvans1234]

My instructors didn't even let us hang out at the nursing station.

Le sigh....

[blackvans1234]

I had a sophomore from nursing school 1 who knew how to hang a secondary bag. I had a senior from nursing school 2 who never spike a maintenance line when we needed to change out a bag of fluids.

What is a maintenance line?

I assume NS at a KVO rate.

[green34]

Plus if your system is computerized, sometimes you can't even find the kardexes anymore to get the information off of there. I would have pointed out that you were using the computer area. You were too polite.