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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They have 8s and 12s here. Of course, I was talking about 8s.

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Definitely more clinical skills as some others mentioned! We have open lab, but only at certain times! I think it is ridiculus that we are put out there and expected to know all these skills that we only practiced once in first semester. :eek:

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Thank you for all of your input! I am just having trouble with figuring out how I, a 2nd year student, could teach time management or IV insertion (which we aren't trained in due to IV teams at the hospitals in MN) in 20 minutes.

Any more topic related suggestions (such as helping an alcoholic patient going through withdrawls on your unit, nursing differences for an obese patient, Downs Syndrome...) that I may be capable to train fellow students on?

Thanks again for your help and I do agree on the lack of time at clinicals. I am just so blessed to have gotten a mentorship. Only 1/3 of our class was lucky enough, in the past it was 100% who was interested. Another bummer to the lack of nursing jobs and those available to mentor.

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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.

What school did you attend?

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I would like things to be taught more realistically than what they are as opposed to an idea they convey that we'll all be daydreaming about the nursing process and sitting around talking to our patients and giving hugs and hot cups of tea and teddy bears all the while being tormented in our minds and perpetually stressed to the point of getting ulcers and acne by all the other activities we should be doing, including the massive volumes of paperwork, that we will never manage to do on time nor properly, especially when we're new, along with the strains on our lives and spouses and children and churches and cousins and plumbers and fellow Christmas shoppers that nursing will inflict since nursing is so hard and no one else will ever understand so we'll burn out and never experience the lofty salaries that the public conveys about professional reimbursement.

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Now, I need to go find my *** because I just laughed it off. ;)

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Thank you for all of your input! I am just having trouble with figuring out how I, a 2nd year student, could teach time management or IV insertion (which we aren't trained in due to IV teams at the hospitals in MN) in 20 minutes.

Any more topic related suggestions (such as helping an alcoholic patient going through withdrawls on your unit, nursing differences for an obese patient, Downs Syndrome...) that I may be capable to train fellow students on?

Thanks again for your help and I do agree on the lack of time at clinicals. I am just so blessed to have gotten a mentorship. Only 1/3 of our class was lucky enough, in the past it was 100% who was interested. Another bummer to the lack of nursing jobs and those available to mentor.

I would survey the folks I'd be teaching instead of random folks on the internet...

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I would survey the folks I'd be teaching instead of random folks on the internet...

The assignment is to survey working nurses, so surveying fellow students wouldn't work.

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The assignment is to survey working nurses, so surveying fellow students wouldn't work.

Then I'd survey local nurses at my clinical site rather than survey random folks in a student forum....where I likely wouldn't find the folks I'm presenting to or working nurses.

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