 Hi guys welcome back to my channel so I have Crosby Steen with me and if you don't know who he is he has his own YouTube channel Crosby Steen RN MSN MSN RN I can never remember. That's the way it's supposed to be MSN RN you put your highest level on there and I see nurses all the time even people that I know that I work with that are instructors mess it up but it is MSN RN for the record. There you go there's that's that's all the video is gonna be about so I'm just gonna end it right there. But Crosby is an ER nurse and he is a nursing professor clinical instructor and so we want to do a video kind of some advice and tips from his perspective because how often do you get it get advice from an actual nursing professor kind of the ins and outs so I collected some questions from people and I'm just gonna we're just gonna wing it and ask you some questions. So first question was what are some of the most common mistakes that nursing students make that you see? So all right so there's a couple things with that one the first common mistake is their perception of nursing school before they come in so I teach fundamentals of nursing very first we call it NP1 where we kind of mix a little bit of med surge into fundamentals it's a little bit different than other other nursing programs but the biggest thing is their I guess their perception of nursing and their preparedness because a lot of times you know you get in you get in a nursing school and you don't really understand the load of studying you're about to take on and so I see a lot of students that first test first two tests they'll bomb those first tests and then it like wakes them up and they're you know then they they snap back into it then they realize okay now I have to study not to pay attention so starting out that's probably the biggest mistake that nursing students make as far as educational wise the second thing the biggest mistake they make as far as clinically speaking is not paying attention to detail I talked about that all the time you ask any of my students and they're probably watching this video they'll even tell they'll talk about how mad I get when they don't pay attention to detail because it's such a small small thing sometimes can cause the biggest the biggest tragedy there was a nurse I don't know if you saw that that was supposed to pull versed you see that story anyways as a nurse maybe I'll try to link it here on one of my channels or something but she was supposed to pull versed pulled something else very conium ended up killing the patient and this happened not that long ago so you know little things like that not paying attention to detail so I hammered the students pretty hard with that but it's something small like that so yeah paying attention to detail would be the other clinically thing speaking what are some ways that you're like that students can impress their instructor like I said I'm paying attention to detail and being organized being prepared you know when I get I tell my students all the time if you're not organized there's so much to keep up with in nursing school there's so much I mean it is just like literally drinking from a fire hose if you can organize your stuff have it organized when I get it in my hand especially if I get all the paperwork at the end of the semester and I have all these nursing care plans look at all these papers to read and it's organized properly I I'm gonna pass you you know automatically on that because if I can see that stuff organized it makes my job easier when I have 56 students stuff in grade and your stuff is organized but that also tells me something deeper though it tells me something a little bit deeper about that student if they're able to hand me something that's organized that means they're gonna be organized on the floor that means they're gonna have all their stuff they're gonna have their name tag when they show up something as simple as like I've had to send students home for not having their name bad their their name tag on but that's an important thing because you can't go to work you can't clock in you know there's all kind of things like that but so organization is the main thing organization attention to detail or the main two things that I look at and like you said I think it goes a much deeper because in nursing school you are setting those fundamentals that foundation those habits for when you become a floor nurse time organization keeping all your skills in check it's not so much about just what you're learning as far as oh I can put an IV in a full in it's so much beyond that you are going to learn those skills as time comes but setting that foundation right off the bat is important yeah you know if there's a tricky way of where I have to kind of be hard on my students and then I also got to kind of like build them up at the same time you know and but I do see students that come in that don't pay attention to detail that I have to hammer them constantly but what does that tell me you know when they go into the next semester what if they become nurses what am I supposed to do with students like that you know it's really as hard as it is on me to get all the students to do that it is really for the for the for the better of the I guess the profession in the long run because you know it's all about paying attention to detail I keep going back of that but it really is that paying attention to detail organization like I keep I talk about it all the time my students but it does go back to that yeah that's like the main thing so let's talk about like some of like the nursing skills because I feel like students get so caught up in oh my gosh I have to start this IV have to get this injection have to pass these meds right when in reality like there's a bigger picture to what nursing is yeah there's some all right so nursing that's the other thing talking about your perception of nursing I said it earlier about what you perceive nursing to be before you get into school I remember how I perceive things about nursing before I even got into school is completely different now my opinion on nursing before and my opinion on nursing now is completely different so what was the original question how students they get so caught up in those those skills that they're not looking at the yeah yeah yeah so they get so you get so caught up in the in the skill aspect of it and you know really your skills you're going to learn on the job I mean the the majority we had matter of fact in our nursing staff meeting we had the other day for all those professors we talked about not even teaching IV sticks anymore because it's something you have to do hundreds of times to really get good at it yeah I mean how often did you do IV sticks in the uh in the ICU I mean I mean like now how many IVs do I do yeah I don't do very many because they all have central lines I think we maybe do one or two a week right so unless you're on the IV team unless you're in the ER like I was starting four or five six IVs a day yeah you know and even then like it took me a few months after doing that many a day to get really good at it wait a second oh there's a window here and Jesse my husband's running guys in Florida with Cali air we're gonna be some good bloopers in here so yeah so anyway so IVs um oh that's awesome yeah so IV sticks um so yeah you're not going to get good at it until you just do it over and over again so yeah I if I was a nursing student I really wouldn't worry too much about my clinical skills like my IV sticks the only thing I would worry about is like some assessment stuff for sure you know do your assessments um and then if you're in nursing school I would focus on nursing actions nursing considerations with all anything you're doing more than more than clinical skills because that's just going to come when you actually get on the floor doing it over and over one thing that I see as a nurse and I'm sure you've had students in the ER as well that follow you um but one advice that I can get from just like a floor nurse perspective is I like when students come in one prepared and organized yeah and two willing to try anything putting themselves out there asking questions and volunteering to do things like I don't want to have to literally drag you in and be like okay you need to do an assessment I was like you to just go in let's just do it let ask questions be involved that's honestly like what she just said is perfect from a from a nursing instructor point of view and from a pre-sector point of view um my nursing my my students in my class that I noticed that that did so well ended up getting like A's in our class they were organized and I can't state that enough organized they paid attention to detail and then what you talked about in the last they went and found stuff to do exactly they were never sitting in the nursing back you know in our little section of the house of the where all our students hang out they were never back there they were constantly working with as many nurses they could find so they and that's kind of tricky guys because sometimes nurses if you're a nursing student nurses can seem kind of rude to you so you kind of got to play that angle of like can I you know but go offer to help that's the best thing you know don't don't go out there like you know trying to do too much but always offer to help if that nurse is rude to you or doesn't go to another one you know find things to do and that that shows that you're interested in nursing that shows that you're going to be you have that you know kind of like that fascination with the nursing profession and that's just going to carry over in everything that you do yeah and when I have students that are like I want to do I would love to be able to do this this or I'm willing to do anything that makes me want to find opportunities for you whereas if I say hey did you want to try and start this IV and they're like nah I did one last week I'm good then right then in there I'm going to stop finding opportunities because if you don't want to like you got to do everything that a nurse does even if it's the grunt work because we do you know cleaning up patients things like that if you don't even want to help out with those things then I'm not going to find the bigger opportunities for you honestly like there's there's probably nothing that makes me mad more when I see and I've had nursing students that have a little bit of an ego and they don't want to go out there and try something because they're like they think they're too good for it or they think that you know wiping a butt is beneath them you can see it it'll come out I don't get on my bad side really really really quick because I got news for you in nursing you're going to do a lot of that you're not you're not above a cna you're not above an lpn you're going to do everything if not more than they do so be prepared to do that um and that's just what I'd say about that you know it's suppress your ego when you're on the floor yeah and even as a nurse today I still go up to my cna's and say can I help you with something do you need to do me to do a blood sugar check do you even do this because that's how you have a good relationship with your cna's and this is kind of off topic but you show that you're willing to do the same things that you're not like oh you go check my blood sugar because you can do that and I've got other things to do yeah like you got to be on same level I promise you like there's nothing as far as take care of your cna as an rn you take care of your cna's your patient care techs your rts your rts yeah all and you know you make them like your best friend you talk to them you communicate with them you ask them to help and you actually help out with them because in the in the end when you're really busy at least for us in the ER if we're really really super busy I want my patient care take ready and willing and wanting to help me out yeah another thing we should talk about is grades because students get so focused on I want a 4.0 I want a so grades versus like the reality of performance like what do you see so nursing school is not set up to to reflect anything like not not really reflect your intelligence it's reflecting critical thinking it's designed by nature to throw you off I always tell my students all the time if you're hanging around an 80 if you're I would rather you hang around an 80 then do really good first semester and get like 90s because then you underestimate what you have to do the rest of the of the program so just remember C's get degrees you're not I mean this is coming from a nursing professor I tell my students all the time do not get focused super focused because you don't get an A because don't worry about that that's nursing school is not designed on road memorization like like a amp one or amp two is a completely different ball game so yeah definitely don't get caught up on that I'd like to see my students hanging around an 80 79 80 81 because that means they're learning just enough and they're not going to get too cocky to when they they think they're smart and then they get hit the second semester for sure grades don't make the best nurses there are nurses that are great nurses that do get A's or get C's but that a grade doesn't define who you're going to be as a nurse it's more so those personal skills motivation organization time management communication assessment skills that are really going to hone you in when you become a nurse you know this is so funny I have to tell the story I have this one story that I tell all my students when they get a bad grade I always tell them I made a 49 on a PEEDS test once so if I can make a 49 on a PEEDS test and still come back and do it I still anything's possible yeah I tell that story all the time I mean I just constantly tell it because I have students they're like well I made a 78 I'm like I don't care I'm at a 49 on a PEEDS test so yeah now I will say that PEEDS test I purposely bombed it because I was studying for med surge I had a med surge test that week and a PEEDS test that week I had a good grade in PEEDS but I couldn't focus on you know you have to kind of pick and choose on what you need to focus on but I could have done a lot better than a 49 yeah so uh yeah it happens that's why he's an ER nurse yeah that is that is why which by the way well our first video we did together was I see nurses for your ER nurses because we have totally different personalities perspective things like that which is a really awesome video that we did so that'll be linked down below yeah yeah that's a good video very entertaining people are commenting saying that I started pulling your accent in the video so I like I'm trying to just um but it's like so hard because when you're talking like also I have an accent yeah you do I guess it just depends on where at the country you're at yeah very true anyways anything else that you want to say I think that kind of summarize you know uh if you're in nursing school I would just say honestly uh pay attention to detail like I said earlier organization and just always have that willingness to an openness to learn all through your whole life through everything kind of always push yourself and don't sell yourself short yeah for sure I think it's a great advice and coming from the source clinical instructor nursing professor msn rn msn rn msn rn yeah it'll be me and a little bit it will be a little bit but anyways thank you guys for watching if you have any other questions leave them down below I will leave crossbeach channel linked as well so make sure you go subscribe check out his stuff he does a bunch of different things he's done traveling vlogs traveling live nursing yeah yeah yeah that's what I talk about too is that yeah on my channel I do kind of a mixture of like I'm traveling out west now and I'm going all around doing like camping out of my car I do that stuff but also in between those travel videos I'd link nursing advice type stuff so uh I kind of mix it up a little bit kind of have a little uh I guess just a little mix of everything yeah awesome so thanks for watching guys we'll see you in our next video see you okay oh wait this is already recording yeah oh cool can we ask some bloopers guys welcome back to my channel so I have yeah you can totally see you just walk in there just put your head hold the baby up all right we'll just okay we're just gonna wing it it works for me yeah and I think like you said do you mind I was shaking I'm sorry but why do you need a light candle right now you mind your own damn bit sorry the vaginas vaginas and penises we're gonna talk about vaginas okay babies that's what happens baby yeah penises and vaginas penises make babies inside of vaginas this this video is called birds and the bees with Crosby steam yes I like that so let's talk a little bit about like penises it's gonna be 90% bloopers and the rest will be right right 10% advice