First Day of Clinicals

HI franharmon,Seems like you are enjoying what you are doing. Just don't lose yourself, when times are frustrating. Keep up the good work no matter what and people like you are definitely needed.

i'm so jealous of Your enthusiasm. i love taking care of the residents.. but dislike most of mY CNA coworkers. which makes work verY hard sometimes :O( sound like You picked the perfect field. Good Luck!

I enjoyed reading this. Your positive attitude is very refreshing!

Quote from franharmon One of the CNAs stirred a resident's food altogether and proceeded to force feed her large bites. Of course the food oozed out of her mouth and the CNA scolded the resident for it. I was not happy.

How sweet. I plan to teach someday and I will use this if you do not mind. It is so similar to my experience even though my first clinical was years ago. You have a kind heart and that is sooo necessary, no matter where you work or what kind of nursing you do. Good luck to you and keep up that wonderful sense of humor too.

Sounds like an eventful first day, but you got lots of experience :-)During my first rotation at the hospital, I was assigned to 2B, which was the oncology unit. We were to go in the night before our clinical day and pick out our patient, do paperwork, etc... I was anxious because I didn't have any experience with cancer or death first hand other than my grandfather who died when I was 10 from lung cancer. I was so anxious in fact, that I went to go do my hour-long paperwork, additional research etc......... on 2A, a med-surg unit. I did not realize that I went to the wrong unit (which was right next to 2B) until bright and early at 6:30am the next morning, ready to face my first day. Boy was I embarrased. I was so ready to face the day, knowing that I had done my research and was ready to dive in, only to realize as soon as I got off the elevator with my instructor that I had gone to the wrong unit (ironically enough, the patient I picked from the 'wrong' unit had been a breast cancer survivor, so I didn't really think anything of it).My point is, the embarrassing stuff happens to everyone. Don't feel bad, smile about it and laugh at yourself, at least you get a story out of it!

Good Job on your first day! I am a first semester LPN student. I go to my first clinical tomorrow. I am nervous and excited!! Can't wait to see how my first day goes. Wish me luck!

That's an awesome story. It really reminds me of my first clinical. Word of advice, keep that same attitude and caring frame of mind. You'll definitely need it. You sound like an awesome nurse in the making. Good luck!

Like many others have stated here...Keep up the positive attitude and caring nature you have and you'll make a wonderful nurse! We need more people like you in this field. I often see nurses just stuffing pills down the residents throats without thinking about if they can even swallow them! When you are a nurse, you'll be responsible for your CNA's. Don't be afraid to correct that shameful behavior when you see it. Even as a student nurse, you have the responsibility of resident care and if you see abuse, you MUST report it! Don't be afraid of this responsibility. We are the voices of the elderly in these situations. Good luck in school!

This reminded me of my first clinical day too So exciting and always keep that feelings for helping others with heart !Good luck !

i laughed and i cried. i am about to start nursing school and i'm very nervous about clinical. thanks for sharing your story.you have a great attitude.

good story, Also some what reminds me of my first day of clinicals as a C.N.A. And also some of my first days at the nursing home I worked at for Nine months. I worked at a facility that most of the CNA's mixed the food together. It drove me insaine. It's bad enough that they have to eat all of there food pureed or michanical soft they shouldn't have to eat everything including there desert mixed together. Like I said above I only worked there for 9 months, It made me not want to work in a nursing home all together. I went back to Retail for two years and now have worked in an office for a little over a year. I just this week went to take my Reffresher course so that I can look for a job as a cna again. I really wish I could find somewhere to work that you had enough staff to take care of the residents like you are taught to do. I love the feeling of making someones day even if they can't have everything just like they did when they could do it therselves us caregivers should be able to make it as close to that as posible.