What types of things you wished you saw and learn more of in as a student?

[RN28MD]

I am trying to come up with a list of things new grad nurses are seeing in the hospital environment that they wish they learned as a student. Once of the things I wished I saw was bladder irrigation.

Does anyone have any input this will truly help the nurse re-entry programs for nurses. Thanks

[chicookie, BSN, RN]

As a student, there is so much you don't really see. I saw alot but I wish we got more into the paperwork, maybe got a chance to talk with a doc or two.

Our instructors were all great because they found for us things that were different and those were our patients. There was always someone interesting on the floor.

[Quilter0225]

Procedures are always cool. I got to see and help with a thoracentesis and a bone marrow biopsy as a student. What I really wish would have been done differently, though, was that I be given a chance to take on more patients. We didn't do two pts at a time until the second to last semester, and I only got up to three at a time in role transition. I really wish my ADN program would have given us two pts. starting the second year, and then that I could have done four during role transition. This has been the hardest thing for me. It's not something someone can really teach you how to do. You just have to do it. Hope this helps.