 Hi guys! So today I wanted to talk about why did nursing students get such a bad rap? Like why do like so many nurses hate students, have this like anger or whatever towards students, and I'm gonna bring light to this conversation. And little disclaimer, which is sad I have to put these in my videos, I don't hate students. So the information that I'm telling you guys in this video is just from like personal perspective, things that I've seen, personal experience, but personally I don't hate students. I actually enjoy when I have nursing students with me. But yes, there are many nurses who don't and I think why they don't like having nursing students is because maybe in the past they've had a nursing student who was difficult, who maybe just and by difficult I mean like not someone who asks lots of questions or whatever but someone who just wasn't engaged. So it's really difficult as a teacher to teach someone who doesn't want to learn. And so maybe they got burnt out on that. I think the next reason why nursing nurses kind of get this like tension between students is because a lot of times you show up to work and you don't get to say hey I'll take the student or hey I don't want a student. A lot of times your charge is like hey actually you have a student today and you could always yes like say hey I'm not really feeling like having a student but then it kind of looks bad because the students like right there and you're it just looks weird you know and you don't want to hurt anyone's feelings and so it may not be anything personal against a student maybe you just you've already had a rough night you didn't get any sleep or you had a rough past couple days past couple shifts and you just want to like just do your job show up and not have to worry about watching anyone or educating anyone that day. And so sometimes I don't say nursing students are forced upon nurses because it's never that but sometimes you're kind of put in this situation where it's like hey you have a student today and you don't really get to say like oh I really would not want one because they're like right there and it's awkward. Hopefully I have a nursing excuse to be rude to a nursing student but if you're constantly like kind of being forced to have students and maybe maybe you normally are okay with that but on one day you're just having a bad day then that could potentially lead to the nurse being negative towards the nursing student again not okay but just trying to like see all perspectives of things here. That makes sense and I think the next thing is just some nurses they're so used to their routine and their their shift and like going through whatever their normal routine is and having a student throws that off and I'm not saying that in a bad way but some nurses may perceive it in a bad way. And so I think that's why nursing students get a bad rap and I'm not saying that it's okay by any means. It's not okay to treat anyone poorly whether it's a student or a patient or a co-worker or a physician or the cleaning lady like whoever it's not okay to treat anyone poorly but as nursing students you can do a lot to kind of like make yourself a better nursing student towards your nurses and the biggest things that I look for are that you're engaged you're willing to learn you're like asking appropriate I don't say appropriate question that sounds bad because I understand you're gonna ask things that maybe may be simple to another person like I'm not saying that but you're like asking good questions you're there you're willing to learn you're engaged you're willing to try things you're willing to do anything whether it's cleaning up a patient starting an IV giving medications of course I understand like certain students aren't allowed to do certain things depending on how far along you are but you're just being engaged and you show up ready to learn I also love when students show up with goals for the day like even if it's not like a written-out goal but like a mental goal like hey I'd really love to do this today I really love to see this today because that just makes me want to like better fulfill fulfill that for you and so I enjoy that nursing students are great they can be very very helpful especially nice you when your patients are total care it's nice to have that extra person with you all shift to just get if someone needs cleaned up or turn you can get it done right away and the ICU is a great learning place for students just because you get a seat of Watt and most the time you could do quite a few things because you're in the like end of your nursing school journey and so you've passed off all your clinicals and criteria whatever I don't you know what I'm talking about all your skill checks and so you're able to do a lot of things so it's exciting please don't take this video in a negative way really it's it's meant to be positive I enjoy having nursing students and there's many nurses out there that do unfortunately there's a lot out there that don't and that's just it's just part of the world it doesn't matter if you're doing nursing or teaching or firefighting police whatever there's always gonna be people that when you're training with them or learning from them that they don't like their jobs or they don't want to be a teacher and that just is what it is so I'm sorry if you've ever had a bad nursing school experience with a nurse but hopefully you've had more positive ones than negative thank you guys for watching this video if you liked it give it a thumbs up and subscribe and I'll see you guys next time bye