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welcome to my channel I'm nurse Blake
and in this video I'm gonna talk about
how to rock your nursing clinical number
one be on time if this is your first day
at a clinical site make sure you get
there early enough you never want to be
late I remember the students who would
always come in late and I just be like
yeah like I always remember the late
students who would come to clean up go
and it would drive me crazy and actually
some clinical and structure and actually
some clinical instruction I can't why
can't I talk today let's try this again
and actually some clinical instructors
will send students home if they are late
so if it is a new clinical site for you
I recommend you go there a day or two
early just to make sure you know how
long it takes for you to get there and
you also know where you're going but
sometimes people aren't gonna go there
or the day before I get it I know so
instead I wake up really early that day
and they make sure I get there really
early and typically I'm either on time
like right on time or 45 minutes to an
hour early but with me I always know
every morning I need to go to Starbucks
the drive-through to start my day right
so I always make sure I calculate that
into my time if you have to drop off
kids at school you need to stop and get
an energy drink make sure you do that
beforehand and make sure you do that
early you never want to be at clinical
wait item number two do your homework
you should have a basic understanding of
what the patient's you see on this
clinical are going through what medical
conditions they have what type of
procedures they may go through what
medications they're on and what their
outcome is
or what is their discharge education
look like so if you're gonna be doing
clinical on a med search floor that
specializes is oncology make sure you
review your oncology section in your
textbooks make sure you really study up
on that patient population if you're
gonna be going to a cardiac floor you
better make sure you know your basic
cardiac conditions medications and
procedures you never want to arrive at
clinical unprepared because you're
caring for these patients you're gonna
have patients and families that you're
gonna interact with and care for to give
them the best outcome and to give them
the best experience you have to make
sure that you're ready and prepared so
always always always review what you
need to before clinical so you're ready
not only for yourself but more
importantly for your patient item number
three make sure you bring all your
nursing equipment with you you never
want to leave a stethoscope or a pin
light back at home because then you
can't complete your patient assessment
and then you have to end up asking your
professor or the nurse your following or
another student for their equipment and
then you're just taking equipment off
the floor and out of someone else's
hands so always make sure you're ready
and prepared so the night before
clinical make sure you have all your
stuff and put it in the bag that you
take to clinical with you
so things I always like to take at
clinical or a stethoscope a pin light my
medication drug guide my notes on that
patient population and what I need to
expect anything else you can think of
anything else you need for a clinical
like scissors I always make sure you
have scissors with me so you don't have
to borrow it from somebody else set all
your equipment out early so you don't
forget anything at home and don't leave
your equipment somewhere where you're
gonna forget it when you walk out the
door because then you'll have nothing so
you can even go ahead and put it in your
car the day before so you know you have
it with you and so that you're prepared
for clinical item number four ask
questions this is your chance to ask as
many questions as possible if at any
time there's something you don't know
don't pretend like you know it and don't
ever think you don't need to know it
ask this is your chance you're in
nursing school clinical is the time
where you need to learn as much as
possible this is gonna be when you make
mistakes mistakes are gonna happen
you're not gonna remember something
that's all okay because those things you
go through are gonna help you become a
better nurse but you have to learn from
these experiences and if there's
something you don't know feel free to
ask ask a nursing student asked the
nurse you're following ask your clinical
instructor and they'll be able to help
guide you and give you a direction or
answer and if you think that you know it
all and you don't need to ask any
questions I have a tip for you
always ask yourself why why is this
patient sick why are they in the
hospital why are they on this specific
medication why are they on that dose why
is that patient going to the procedure
why are we drawing certain labs on this
patient and if at any time you don't
know the answer to that why question
that is a chance for you to ask those
questions you're a student you're
supposed to learn you're paying to be
there a nursing school to learn and you
never want to be ripped off right if you
order a Starbucks you don't just leave
it on the counter and let it get cold
and just walk out without it you want to
take your Starbucks with you because you
paid for it that's the same with your
education look at it that way you're
paying to be educated so if you have
questions ask them and it not only
benefits you asking questions and
gaining knowledge is gonna benefit the
patient and their family and last time I
checked that's why we're in nursing
school so we can help patients and we
can help families item number five stay
engaged listen I know I was in clinical
you're gonna have time that's downtime
where the patient's you're caring for
there may nothing be going on there may
not be a lot going on with your patient
so it's really easy to just sit behind a
computer and pretend like you're
charting or go chatting with one of your
nursing school friends about the day how
boring and slow it is and never say slow
in a hospital because once you say slow
you know what they say it's gonna get
really busy
or if you ever say oh it's really quiet
in here that's the q''-word
never say that nurses will look at you
and be like oh what have you done and
once you say those words you know crazy
stuffs gonna happen it's gonna get
really hectic that's just an extra tip
never say slow or never say quiet but if
it does get a little slow the patients
you're caring for don't have a lot going
on I challenge you to keep yourself busy
that whole time if your patients don't
have any procedures going on
ask other nurses on their floor what
their patients are going through and if
there's anything that you can observe or
a skill that you can practice
tell your Clinical Instructor you
haven't practiced Foley's or you've
never inserted Foley I'm sure they will
help you seek out that opportunity keep
yourself busy always stay engaged and
I'm sure there's always something more
that you can learn about your patient so
really dig through their chart don't
just look at the last note but look at
every note don't just look at the last
labs on that patient look at every lab
and really see their trends and by
staying a gauge you're learning you're
asking questions there's something
special about inquiry and as a nurse and
a nursing student that is a skill
enquiring is always learning because it
is so busy to just get caught up and oh
it's just another clinical it's another
eight hours but clinical this is
hands-on experience you get to be with
patients and Families you're in the
hospital setting there is so much to
learn I've been working in hospitals for
eight years now and I've worked at many
different hospitals I think I've seen it
all but honestly I haven't and whenever
I am in the hospital I try to learn more
about every process my last point I want
to make let's say you know you want to
be in the neuro ICU treating adult
patients when you graduate and you know
that's your job that's what you want to
do don't think that your clinical on
labor and delivery is just a waste of
time because it's really not anytime you
could be with patients caring for
patients there's always something that
you
learn and things that you learn on L&D
floor or on a pediatric floor you may
not think it's important but these
things may come back when you're
treating patients in the neuro ICU so
take every clinical as an opportunity an
opportunity to learn an opportunity to
grow as a nurse again it's not about us
it's about what we can learn to care
better for our patients that's the main
goal in clinical settings nursing school
we think the main job is to just get
good grades and pass our NCLEX but
really it's so much more it's really
about the people and the patients we
care for so think of every time and
every minute and every second you're at
clinical is a way for you to learn to
care better for your patients because
that's what matters and that's why we
became nurses and I think there's
something so special about always
wanting to learn thank you guys so much
for watching my video I hope this video
in these tips will help you rock your
next clinical and give you some extra
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