Hi everyone. I'm just wondering about some opinions that I could maybe learn from. After googling some articles and thoughts of both nurses and student nurses, I am seeing that either some are having a difficult time coping with interactions as a student nurse or maybe are given a hard time by nurses.
We're all human but I'm wondering.. What traits, habits, comments or behaviors make you annoyed or irritate about student nurses?
It doesn't have to be logical but hopefully it is. Just looking for insight and possibly things I can avoid when I get there.
I was merely pointing out the fact that this response would be better understood under a thread with the title "what makes you irritated by nurses in clinicals" in the student nurses forum.
Specializes in Psych, Scrub/Scout, Gen-Surg, Neuro-Med.
For me it would be:
- Not speaking English. I'm half Chinese myself, but honestly I can't teach you anything if you've been in Australia for over two years and still don't understand basic English. There is supposed to be an English test to ensure that international students can actually RECEIVE an education effectively, but it's clearly not up to standard and everybody's time gets wasted so that the university can get some coin. One of my previous students didn't know what a kidney-dish was, nor could I explain it to her, and she was in FINAL YEAR.
- Laziness. "There's just nothing to do..." ---> Yes there is! Just go and even TALK to a patient. We're here for wholistic care, which includes gauging their mood and feelings.
- Know-it-all. "I already know how to take vital signs, I want to learn something interesting". I hear this from students occasionally. I just tell them that they'll always have to do vital signs, get used to the time management, learn the trends and indications, and show me you're committed to the job for the patient, not to look smart and cool while you do that fancy wound dressing.
When I was a student I hated:
- Being referred to as 'the student' rather than my name
- Staff talking behind my back, not addressing vital learning issues with me upfront but instead addressing my education team and management rather than me directly, which resulted in a huge loss of self-confidence and made me so anxious about my environment that I didn't learn well at all.
This is written as an insight as a student nurse. Yes, when I was a student I had to babysit the whacky dementia patient from the nursing home at the bequest of a nurse on the payroll, no, I was not interested in hearing short cuts and time savers and no, I don't give any of this advice to students.
Had you written this post from the perspective of an experienced nurse it might be of some value. Clearly you are not and you may as well have saved yourself the effort by watching Two and a Half Men instead.
So you're foolishly suggesting that an outsider can't come into your world and suggest how change could be made. No, I haven't been a nurse, and people like you make me not want to be one. You're so set in your ways concerned about what you, as a nurse, are. Go back and read my introduction.
I really couldn't care less about your jab at jab at me. You've quite clearly shown your intellect here, and you've quite blatantly ascribed to the attitude that you're too good for students. I can understand you being burned out. I'm sure your closemindedness will take you far. Have a wonderful career.
Whenever there are students on the floor I try to remember what it was like when I was in their shoes, meaning that I try to be of assistance in anyway that I can. I guess the only thing that gets under my skin is that sometimes it bothers me when a student does not have common sense, I mean you can't put a whole Colace pill down a peg-tube, I mean come on, but I guess it's true when they say not all sense is common.
So you're foolishly suggesting that an outsider can't come into your world and suggest how change could be made. No, I haven't been a nurse, and people like you make me not want to be one. You're so set in your ways concerned about what you, as a nurse, are. Go back and read my introduction.
I really couldn't care less about your jab at jab at me. You've quite clearly shown your intellect here, and you've quite blatantly ascribed to the attitude that you're too good for students. I can understand you being burned out. I'm sure your closemindedness will take you far. Have a wonderful career.
Aly529
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True.
It was still welcome.