Why is it...

Published Oct 3, 2008

247 Posts

Specializes in Tele, Cardiac Post Op, ER.

that some nurses, decide its ok to talk down to nursing students. I was in a situation where a nurse educator called me out for saying the wrong thing during a 24 hour diet recall by saying that is WRONG, nursing student, BIG mistake in a condescending way. Now, I was only commenting that I also enjoyed the same baked potato from a restaurant near by. I know it wasn't the healthiest thing but my rationale was, if I wasn't going to keep the conversation going, my patient wasn't going to be particularly forth coming about her own diet. The RN educator didn't give me a chance to make recommendations to the pts diet. She kept interupting my interview and said "what I have to say is important" (even though what she covered with the patient was the exact same thing as what the doctor said a few minutes earlier).

I find this to be rude. I am trying to learn. There really isn't any need to reprimanding me in front of a patient. And there are nicer ways to say, what you said was not right. Next time, you should make modifications on how you tell the patient such and such.