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My clinical instructor told me this often when I was in the last year of nursing school. It made me upset because I was just learning. Then I became a nurse and I understood what she was on about. My preceptors in my first nursing job said it to me too, though they tried to be nice about it. More speed came with time. It's hard in the beginning, but time management really is important and you will get better with it as you move forward.
All students and nurses have heard this. However, I personally don't find it very helpful because it's usually pretty generalised. "You just need to be faster" "You just need to do it quicker". I try to give new grads feedback that will be helpful to them and make it as specific as possible. Let's say they are slow doing there morning cares, suggest that they need to be more systematic with their head to toes or leave a dressing until the med pass is done. Rather than "your too slow". For things like med passes your not going to be as quick as the esperienced nurse. If you were you wouldn't be being careful and would probably make an error.
i suggest asking the nurse what tasks she thinks your slow with. For examples if you are slow with your assessments ask her how she thinks you can improve? What exactly are you taking to long with? When it's very specific things like you are slow with bloodwork or setting up IVs, ask for more opportunities doing these skills so that you can get better at them.
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Hello. I am a new grade nurse and im on the training for a month so far. I'm stll learning . but the senior nurse who teach me is keep saying 'hurry up! You should do more quickly '
I don't get her because who is gonna take the responsibility if I made mistake?
Is that common in another country?
I'm curious about how new nurses are educated in the hospital at first in another country