Things you would like to tell... Nursing Staff ! ( and get away with)

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Specializes in LTC.

I was reading a thread " Things you would like to tell.... " on the general forum and thought I would start a new one here for us students. This one is : Things you would like to tell the nursing staff at your clinical site. I'll go for it first.

- I'm a student nurse... key word is " Student" ! Unlike you I wasn't born an experienced nurse, so please give me a break here in there would ya ? .

- ( to the nasty techs) Don't catch an attitude with me just because I chose not to stay a tech all my life and better my career. Instead of talking about me behind my back to the other tech why don't you pick up a pen and a pad and take my advice " Go to nursing school, if you think you can do a better job." ( this is a true story)

- Just because a patient have been having stridor all day, doesn't mean he doesn't mean pulling him up in bed is just a waste of time. Come on you are a nurse you should know better.

- I don't need hear you complain and whimper about your job as a nurse. You chose it. As a student I know its hard but sometimes the complaining annoys me. Isn't there anything that pleases you about nursing ?

*** Thanks to all the nurses and techs that have made my clinical experience a good one. You all know who you are.

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To the nurse who told me as a student not to do anything that she was about to when state is there. Hello, if you did it right the first time you wouldn't have to worry about it when state is there, duh. So far I have had a really crappy site and a snobby site, but the others have been ok.

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To the med tech: Yes, we do really need the laptop to chart our med pass. We can't have you do it. It isn't our fault that the facility went to a total paperless charting without a back up plan at all. Our computer doesn't work, not our fault. We're passing 8 of your 30 residents medications for you, quit whining.

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Specializes in LTC, Cardiac Step-Down.

I appreciate that you have a busy life outside of work. But do you really need to be on your cell phone right now talking about what soandso said to soandso? I think the last HOUR you were on the phone should have been enough. Oh, and stop looking at me like I'M wasting YOUR time and eavesdropping on purpose. You're the professional here. Act like it and do your job!

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Peds., ER.

Thanks, you were really helpful over the last (overtime) hour while I did everything for all of your patients, answered every call bell and every phone call. While you sat and talked to your friend from another NSG unit. What's that...you are on call tomorrow...cough, cough...I think I'll be sick so you can come in and work.

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Specializes in Psychiatry.

From an RN to the OP (nursing student): "Until you have walked a mile in our shoes....."

I'm also going to stick up for techs. Not ALL of them aspire to be nurses, many are happy doing what they are doing, and they do a darn good job. You may want to take a look at how you are projecting yourself to the staff at the hospital where you do your clinical rotation.

Respect goes both ways.

Best,

Diane

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Specializes in Operating Room Nursing.

Ha Ha this is a great thread!

To the RN and 'facilitator' who told me I'd never make it as an RN...well I've only been out for three years and I'm a clinical nurse and run my own operating room! In your face!!!

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From an RN to the OP (nursing student): "Until you have walked a mile in our shoes....."

I'm also going to stick up for techs. Not ALL of them aspire to be nurses, many are happy doing what they are doing, and they do a darn good job. You may want to take a look at how you are projecting yourself to the staff at the hospital where you do your clinical rotation.

Respect goes both ways.

Best,

Diane

tut tut tut....we registered/licensed nurses dont like it when someone "steps on" OUR vent threads, let us show the students the same respect!

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Specializes in ..

Dear NUM on the unit I have been assigned to for clinical,

Please, please please assign me an RN to work with for the day so I don't look like an annoying brat when I pick one, trail her and ask nicely if that's okay and she doesn't want me (or the next one, or the next...) I'm here to learn, but it's a bit hard when no one will take you on board.

Dear RNs I am working with on clinical,

I am entirely capable of showering your patients and taking and chartings their obs. Please give me something to do so when my facilitator comes around I'm not looking lost and useless because you won't let me do anything (let alone follow you discretely and observe.)

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Specializes in Telemetry.

Dear nurses,

Please desist from telling the instructors lies about the students when you did not do your job on time. Pay attention to your patients and stop talking about things that are irrelevant to patient care at the nursing station. Be receptive, remember, you were once a student. I speak to you with respect and I expect the same from you. You are not my friend, do not ask me about my personal life.

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To the nurse who told me as a student not to do anything that she was about to when state is there. Hello, if you did it right the first time you wouldn't have to worry about it when state is there, duh. So far I have had a really crappy site and a snobby site, but the others have been ok.

I used to think like that- I remember being a student and seeing a staff nurse take short-cut, and ignorantly thinking to myself "I will never do that like she did." I thought I was too moral and ethical- I would be a better nurse.

Boy, did I have a lot to learn.

I've now been a nurse for 18 years, and my eyes are wide open.

When you actually become a nurse you will find out very soon that taking short-cuts and not being able to do many things the "right" way is very frequently the only way to get anything done and survive as a nurse.

Many times your only options are giving short-cut care, or no care at all.

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From an RN to the OP (nursing student): "Until you have walked a mile in our shoes....."..........

I agree 100%. We have been in their shoes but they have not been in ours.

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