Have you ever had a dream that had been obliterated into nothingness just because someone told you that you weren’t good enough?
Being a student is the time when you have too many high hopes about yourself, too many expectations. But nothing hurts more when you become disappointed with your own capabilities, just because a single disappointed opinion from a clinical instructor robbed you of your needed confidence and potential to do your job as a student nurse.
All of the nurses are required to undergo the same angst of being pressured whilst performing a procedure for the first time on a real person. And students better be at their top form all the time! After all, most of the patients do not want to be used as a practice material, right? So better keep your game up, better do it like a pro, make it on the first shot, and so on, and so forth. All of these thoughts are running around their brain, cultivating fear, as the students are now aware that they are going to take responsibility for their own actions.
Come on. Was there honestly a good reason as to why these instructors have to be so rude just to make a point go across?
There might be one applicable reason though: These clinical instructors enjoyed being terrorists in the nursing world, for the sake of who knows what.
All of the nurses are required to undergo the same angst of being pressured whilst performing a procedure for the first time on a real person. And students better be at their top form all the time! After all, most of the patients do not want to be used as a practice material, right? So better keep your game up, better do it like a pro, make it on the first shot, and so on, and so forth. All of these thoughts are running around their brain, cultivating fear, as the students are now aware that they are going to take responsibility for their own actions.
As early as being a student, there is already that misdirected expectation of making no faults in any given time. That’s just how the cookie crumbles in this field, you can’t make mistakes. To add to the pressure, some clinical instructors thought that the poor clinical experience of a student nurse is a valid excuse for them to berate, display a harpy attitude, and act superior around them. This is actually doing more damage in amplifying the anxiety of the nurse performing the task instead of relieving the tension.“…there is already that misdirected expectation of making no faults in any given time.”
Come on. Was there honestly a good reason as to why these instructors have to be so rude just to make a point go across?
There might be one applicable reason though: These clinical instructors enjoyed being terrorists in the nursing world, for the sake of who knows what.
