What would you like more training on?

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We have an assignment to survey nurses and SN to find out what additional training/education would interest them. Then we are to teach on the topic.

Could you please throw out some suggestions that would interest you as a nurse or SN?

Thanks!

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Specializes in Critical Care, Emergency Medicine, Flight.

i havent reached it yet, but i think they should teach more IV insertion. at my school they wait until the very last semseter to teach it, & its such an important skill to have.

thats all :)

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Specializes in Emergency/Cath Lab.
i havent reached it yet, but i think they should teach more IV insertion. at my school they wait until the very last semseter to teach it, & its such an important skill to have.

thats all :)

Wow that is one of the FIRST things we learn.

I would have liked more practice with time management. Only having one pt didnt allow for much of that.

And of course more education on pharm. No matter how much you get, you need more!

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Specializes in Ortho, Neuro, Detox, Tele.

as a nurse, I find one of the biggest skills needed is prioritzation and time management. sometimes I come back after working 12 hours and hear, "I didn't have time to pull that foley/restart that IV(which went bad at 9AM)/call the doctor(after pt has been there 5 hours/etc." Makes my night a little harder usually.

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Specializes in Critical Care, Emergency Medicine, Flight.
Wow that is one of the FIRST things we learn.

I would have liked more practice with time management. Only having one pt didnt allow for much of that.

And of course more education on pharm. No matter how much you get, you need more!

i envy you. lol.

time mangement? really- i thought all this busy work ati, and other nonsesne they give us to do on top of our regular classwork was for that purpose LOL!

i agree on the meds too, but alas...you learn as you go along..

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Specializes in Emergency/Cath Lab.
i envy you. lol.

time mangement? really- i thought all this busy work ati, and other nonsesne they give us to do on top of our regular classwork was for that purpose LOL!

i agree on the meds too, but alas...you learn as you go along..

There is a huge difference to me in learning time management with busy work and with pt needs. You are gonna have a million things to do and you have to prioritize them in terms of pt needs, throw in call lights and there goes your schedule. It is a whole different beast on the floor

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More hands on training...I don't think there is anything in the books or lectures that I need more time on, but I don't think my school gives us enough hands on time learning skills. We do have clinicals 2 days a week during every semeseter, but when you consider that we can't do anything without our instructor present and the instructor is always tied up with another student giving meds or doing something else, any opportunity to do something we haven't done yet is lost. I am also in my last semester and haven't had any more than 1 patient at a time during a clinical day. How is this going to prepare me for 6?! This also goes into learning time management/prioritization as well. With only one patient, that just doesn't come into play. Finally in this last semester we will have 3 patients at a time, but for only about 4 clinical days, then we are done.

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Specializes in Pediatric Pulmonology and Allergy.
i havent reached it yet, but i think they should teach more IV insertion. at my school they wait until the very last semseter to teach it, & its such an important skill to have.

In my school they didn't teach it at all. One day I came in on my own time for an optional IV workshop and it was only about hanging IV's, not starting them. We were asking the instructor questions about starting the IVs and the lab manager bursts in to say that this class was ONLY for hanging IVs and we weren't allowed to discuss starting IVs because the program doesn't cover that. :rolleyes:

Another time the school was offering a free IV insertion workshop and our class was not allowed to attend because it woudl have interfered with our clinical schedule.

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More hands on training...I don't think there is anything in the books or lectures that I need more time on, but I don't think my school gives us enough hands on time learning skills. We do have clinicals 2 days a week during every semeseter, but when you consider that we can't do anything without our instructor present and the instructor is always tied up with another student giving meds or doing something else, any opportunity to do something we haven't done yet is lost. I am also in my last semester and haven't had any more than 1 patient at a time during a clinical day. How is this going to prepare me for 6?! This also goes into learning time management/prioritization as well. With only one patient, that just doesn't come into play. Finally in this last semester we will have 3 patients at a time, but for only about 4 clinical days, then we are done.

100% co-sign this post. Clinical skills hands down. Not just "open lab" either, instruction followed by supervised practice time.

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I wish school would teach the "real world" way of nursing. Or at least explain it as we are going along.

For instance, in my skills lab, we could take our time inserting an NG tube on the mannequin (I think we had 5 minutes). In the real world, I dropped my first NG tube on a patient in the ED who had been throwing up blood for 3 days in severe distress while people were running all around me placing 4 IV's in this patient, etc. I had about 30 seconds to 1 minute. That's the reality of it!

Another thing that I want more of, is more discription of prioritization. We get these NCLEX questions like what would you do if someone is presenting with a severe asthma attack. A) Sit them up in bed, B) Place them on O2, C) Assess resp. sounds, D) Observe until their lips turn blue. I mean, really, I'm sitting them up in bed, WHILE placing their O2 AND listening to breath sounds. This is the reality of it!

Ah, well, nursing school, it keeps us on our toes, right?

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Academics.

More hands-on experience! I want three full shifts a week on the floor and two days classroom from the start of my program. Right now, I have two days where I'm in the classroom for only three hours each and one day for six hours, which could easily be changed to two days for six hours each. We are wasting time, people!

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More hands-on experience! I want three full shifts a week on the floor and two days classroom from the start of my program. Right now, I have two days where I'm in the classroom for only three hours each and one day for six hours, which could easily be changed to two days for six hours each. We are wasting time, people!

The standard full shift in local hospitals are 12 hours.

I'm all for more clinicals....but with 36 hours of clinicals a week, when on earth would you study?

For our last six months we do 24 - 30 hours a week of clinicals....BUT, all our theory classes are done. We have just a few reflective papers, NCLEX study time, weekly case studies and NCLEX practice tests....and I'm pretty dang busy.

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