I am a 2nd semester nursing student and this is my 2nd time taking med-surg. I still am having problems cracking down the answers on the exams but I feel like i understand the material alot better than last semester and I'm not doing as good as I want to be doing on the exams but theyre are passing grades. My instructor though, consistently tells our class on a weekly basis "nursing isnt for everybody", I don't know if she says that to us because we are re-taking med-surg or she doesnt think we are trying hard enough. She also said that when she sees us at clinicals she's not impressed with what she sees in our performance. Then yesterday a nurse at the hospital we do our clinicals at asked us what semester we are in and we told her 2nd semester. So she said she felt like we are not as advanced as we should be, she goes on further stating that we dont know how to make beds right. In our program we are required to take the cna class to have experience in that, and I took that course almost 2 years ago. I've never worked as a cna/pct, so those skills on bedmaking are kinda iffy, I can say that I do attempt to do my best on making my patients beds. But putting all this negativity together makes me feel like I'm being told I'm just not good enough to be a nurse. I feel like I've improved alot in clinicals since last semester because before I was always too nervous to go in the patients room, now its not as bad and I do my assessments right away. I do tend to have questions alot tho like when a patient tells me he is having chest pain and feeling nauseous, that to me is alarming, so I'll do vitals and I'll tell my nurse and she'll just say "o well he's been in pain since he got here, and everything makes him nauseous." So besides from what I do, what more can I do if I'm being told pretty much there's nothing to do-so I'll go in and re-position my patient and see if that helps any. I kinda feel unsure of myself alot of the time, but aside from everything I'm trying to hold my head up high and try to learn as much as I can, I really want to pass this semester, not because I just got "by" but because I know what I'm doing. Does anyone have any advice or similar stories to tell that they've had on any kind of negativity from people?
Alex2010-omg did you ever report that nurse???!! What she did was just inhumane!!! I could just never imagine doing that to someone. People like that definitely do not need to be in the medical field.
This is what i just don't get. Why are these awful people in this profession? This is what my ex CI was like and many of the students i find repulsive, too.
Betxq: no one in my life seems to understand the reason i come home completely whiped out and stressed to the max after clinical. It's so frustrating to not feel like anyone gets you.... i've tried talking to class mates but i feel like they don't even really get it. I just can't wait till NS is over and i can live my life. Good luck with that evaluation. Stand your ground. You're a good student!
I recently was a patient in local hospital was transferred to another hospital from ICU while still in medically induced coma. So I was waking up from coma, first thing I heard was hissing air sound coming from my neck. I did not even know I had a tube stuck in my throat. I was on such heavy meds that they made me very depressed and anxious so since I was unable to talk, nurse on duty decided that she did not want to deal with me and took away my call button away from me. I did not know yet that I had urinary catheter placed in me. So I would raise my hand and wave to anyone who'd walk by and there was my nurse walking by, looking at me and laughing and talking with her tech and just pretty much ignoring me. I tried to get up to get her attention. She came back and adjusted my bed so that I wasn't even able to raise my head to even see into hallway. I could not produce any sound since I was on vent machine. I could only wave with one arm. Feeling like I was in nursing home/paralyzed crying for help and everyone would ignore me.
With lots of effort I almost got to sitting position since I wanted to go to bathroom very bad. Then this nurse rushes into my room with syringe in her hand shouting "Where do you think you are going?" Without saying anything else she injects my iv with some meds and I fall asleep for another 3 days. Those type of nurses that tell "this patient has been a pain since he got there".
That sounds like an absolute nightmare or a horror movie. Ugh. Please tell me this nurse was reported.
I can empathize with the OP. I have been feeling a similar way about clinicals myself. I am in my second-to-last semester of an ADN program and feel that I am not as advanced as most of the other students. My instructor is not mean, but when I did a med pass with her recently (my first time to do IVP), she said she shouldn't have to be coaching me along as much as she was. The second day of med pass, I did a little better about some things but still forgot to bring all equipment needed and got flustered and forgot to bring up identifying the pt by 2 identifiers myself (though I had mentioned it earlier). I also missed noticing one of the pt's scheduled medications. I don't know why, but when I looked at it I saw it as a PRN, even though I KNEW it wasn't in the PRN section. So stupid.
kringe38-I feel the same way too whenever I make a mistake I feel really stupid b/c either I already knew it beforehand and forgot or I just overlooked it . I tend to dwell on the issue so much that it brings my self esteem down more, but I need to learn to let it go and just learn from it. When I make a mistake in front of my instructor it makes me get all :uhoh21: parnoid, resulting in more stupidities, ugh I dont want to allow that kind of feeling take over me b/c it makes me feel doubtful of myself. We just need to believe in ourselves more.
kringe38-I feel the same way too whenever I make a mistake I feel really stupid b/c either I already knew it beforehand and forgot or I just overlooked it . I tend to dwell on the issue so much that it brings my self esteem down more, but I need to learn to let it go and just learn from it. When I make a mistake in front of my instructor it makes me get all :uhoh21: paranoid, resulting in more stupidities, ugh I dont want to allow that kind of feeling take over me b/c it makes me doubt myself. We just need to believe in ourselves more
. I tend to dwell on the issue so much that it brings my self esteem down more, but I need to learn to let it go and just learn from it. When I make a mistake in front of my instructor it makes me get all :uhoh21: parnoid, resulting in more stupidities, ugh I dont want to allow that kind of feeling take over me b/c it makes me feel doubtful of myself. We just need to believe in ourselves more.
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Alex2010-omg did you ever report that nurse???!! What she did was just inhumane!!! I could just never imagine doing that to someone. People like that definitely do not need to be in the medical field.