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Could people please share what they did for work/income during their studies and their experiences please? Is it a good idea to start working in healthcare/hospitals as soon as you can to make connections?
combee fucked around with this message at 07:55 on Nov 8, 2019 |
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Nov 6, 2019 12:22
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Thanks - I'm tossing up my options but right now I'm thinking that poor management is not worth it for a role which isn't giving me any clinical experience (esp this far before I even start my studies). I've got options to consider and it's great to know that placements can help with getting your foot in the door. I'm sure I'll be back with more questions as I progress in my studies!
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Nov 8, 2019 07:57
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I started nursing school a few weeks ago. Classes were paused after the first week and now we’re fully online, no labs will be held this semester. We were meant to have our first clinical placement mid year but that will most likely be postponed till end of year.
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Mar 26, 2020 13:01
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Bum the Sad posted:Oh no how you gonna learn to make a bed with mitered corners now!?! Our first lab was about learning how to don and doff PPE. As you can imagine they couldn't really do that  we got to watch our tutor do it with a gown and a mask that was being reused by all of the tutors.
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Mar 27, 2020 23:28
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Any tips for a new grad re: time management, getting stuff done properly and feeling less crap about being a newbie? I’m a few weeks in as an RN on a specialised paediatric unit. I’ll be here for a year in a graduate transition program. I’m currently being “preceptored” but will be flying solo from next week. I know impostor syndrome is a thing, that I need to ask for help, and that I’ll get the hang of things in time, but I find I’ll get my head around one part of things and realise I’ve forgotten something else. I don’t want to rush things and I want to make sure I understand what’s happening and it makes me quite slow. Yesterday it was doing meds on time; today it was writing my notes. Felt really poo poo leaving 45 mins after my shift ended but I wanted to make sure my notes were thorough  I do use a shift planner and try to cluster my cares but I still always feel like the tasks are never ending. I’m sure some of this will settle when I’m more familiar on my ward but if anybody has any tips, advice or just kind words, it’d be appreciated right now. I got really good feedback during my clinical placements and I worked as an Assistant in Nursing (Aus equivalent of a CNA) during my studies but I feel like they haven’t prepared me for a drat thing 
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Feb 23, 2023 14:02
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Thanks all. I’ve now done a week of solo work as an RN and it’s been full of ups and downs. Some days are pretty manageable, I get by and don’t feel terrible at the end. I’ve learned to make peace with the fact that I can’t do 100% of everything I would ideally do each shift, and that’s ok. However, I have been thrown into a couple of situations here and there where I think “gently caress, I have no idea”. I ask for help and I do my best but I still come out frazzled and feel like I’m not good enough to be here. The last thing that made me feel that way was a transfer from ICU; they were stable but had a few things being monitored that don’t usually come up on my ward. I was so focused on juggling my patient load and the patient was presenting as stable, and I missed something that came up on one of the things we were monitoring. Thankfully a more experienced and relaxed RN noticed this and escalated it for me, and the clinical review didn’t result in any interventions (doctor just noted what had been seen and increased frequency of obs) but gently caress me if I don’t feel like poo poo. This all happened at the end of my shift too and I felt like a real piece of poo poo, handing off this mess to the next nurse. I know this experience will help me to remember not to be so task orientated that I miss the bigger picture but what else can I learn from this? I know you learn from experience but I still feel poo poo and dumb as gently caress.
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Mar 3, 2023 13:36
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Thanks for the reassurance y'all  Looking back on the last post I made in this thread, just a month ago - I can look back now and see that the thing that I "missed" had very little impact on the bigger picture for this patient, and the kid was discharged almost a week later, stable and happy. Not to say that I'll be complacent, because I certainly don't intend on doing that, but that some things I beat myself up about are not as important as making sure that my patients are stable and well overall. I've been journaling after my shifts just to get my stress and anxiety out, and to keep a record of what happened during my shift (nothing detailed, but stuff like "today I did X solo for the first time" or "today I saw XYZ condition in a toddler") and I think it helps. There's also a Nurse and Midwife Support service in Australia, where nurses can call and shoot the poo poo with other, more experienced nurses - I called them just to unload, and that helped too. It also helps hearing from all of you in this thread that some things are just universal (like needing a shitload of time to adjust and learn in a new environment and/or role). One thing I have struggled with is lack of feedback. I've changed careers from more desk/corporate type roles where there are generally regular personal development meetings and/or contact with a manager - a token "you're doing well" every now and then made me feel like I was on the right track with my work. I don't really get a lot of that in this role or environment, but after speaking to the support service mentioned above, it seems like I need to adjust my expectations to "you'll only get feedback if you do something particularly catastrophic - assume you're OK otherwise". Do you guys feel like that's the case generally in nursing? I still haven't even had any time alone with my manager - they're too busy and all we've done is exchange a few hellos and emails.
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Apr 2, 2023 11:39
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not relevant
combee fucked around with this message at 05:05 on Feb 16, 2024 |
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Jun 21, 2023 00:06
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