hi guys what's going on I'm nurse Blake and welcome to my
channel in this video I'm going to talk about how to rock your nursing clinical
if you're a nursing school if you haven't started yet I'm sure you're
gonna start this week so ask me any questions you want in relation to
clinical I am here to answer them and if you're a nurse tuning in feel free to
give your tips and advice to all the students I'm sure they would love it
I graduated nursing school back in 2014 and I still can remember the feeling of
just anxiousness and nervousness before every clinical I'm the person who I
don't know if you saw my video types of nursing students but I'm definitely the
anxious one like that is me like I was so nervous before each and every
clinical that I'd be like worried to go to bed because I wasn't gonna wake up on
time and I would set like five alarms just to make sure that I was up and
ready at clinical so in this video I'm gonna go through my tips so you can be
successful in your clinical so let's start with tip number one is be on time
because you never want to be late being late is definitely not a good look
and your nursing teacher your nursing instructor will probably send you home
if you're not on time and I know plenty of my nursing instructors did send
people home so if you're going to a new clinical site make sure you get there
early enough so account for traffic and if you need to go to Starbucks or if you
hit the gym early alright I'm not the one who goes to gym early but I
definitely need the Starbucks and if it is a new clinical site I highly
recommend you go a few days before just to check out the location and how to get
there it's always better to be early than late alright and if you do get to a
clinical site early go ahead and study and prepare for the clinical hey guys
hey Douglas a tan thanks for tuning in share your tips below and again if
you're a nursing student and in clinical let me know what clinical you're in
alright what do we have next okay do your homework so prepare before
each and every clinical let's say you're doing clinical on a
cardiac floor you should know a little bit about that population their
medications their procedures discharge education
all right you never want to go into a clinical unprepared and you should
always be prepared not just for you but really for the patient and just being
prepared will help you in that the the lecture about that clinical that you're
in and it'll help you for the ink Lex so always always always do your homework
and if you get to clinical early that's time where you could do homework and
prepare hey hey guys it's 2018 I'm so excited who's in school right now
does anyone graduating in two semesters is your first semester and if you guys
if you guys ever have any questions about nursing or nursing school I'm here
for you so feel free to send me a message if you have any questions about
my videos you're watching drop them in the comments I try my best to respond to
all of them alright next tip bring your equipment
alright that's stethoscope pin light drug guide your shears or scissors
all right you always want to be prepared because when your instructors going in
with you for an assessment and you don't have hooker stuff like it's not good
it's not a good thing so always make sure you have it with you I always like
to set my stuff aside and in my car really the day before because the
morning of you know you're running out the door you never want to forget it
also put it in your car or leave it in your car so you always have it and
you're always prepared next tip alright ask questions nursing school is your
chance to ask all the questions you want all right and really there's not ever a
bad question you're paying for nursing school right you're paying to gain
knowledge and skills so if there's ever a question you have feel free to ask it
because really that's what you're paying for and if you feel like you know it all
if you're one of the nursing students in my video that knows it all I challenge
you to ask why for everything so if you have a patient who's going into a
procedure ask why are they going into the procedure they're honest
medication why are they on that medication alright if the physician
wants to change your dose why are they changing a dose and this will just help
you inquire and learn more about the patient like I said this is your chance
to ask questions so ask as many as possible
and if you do ask why and you're not able to come to that conclusion on your
own that's when you need to ask either another nursing student and instructor
another nurse on the unit so never ever be ashamed to ask questions because
really when you're a nurse in school this is your chance you have instructors
around you you have nurses around you so ask ask ask hey guys I hope to be coming
live to you guys a lot more I got a new set up here in every video I post my
plan is to go live with you guys so I can answer your questions
what's next next tip stay engage this is definitely one of the most important
tips because in clinical you may find yourself with downtime or the patients
that you're caring for may not need anything at the moment you could either
do one of two things here you can just hang out or you could try to learn more
alright so make sure you're constantly engaged in your learning because I know
I used to be in clinical it's easy to just hang out with your friends when
you're not busy or pretend like you're turning behind the computer or I know
some of you will hide in the not in the medication room but the the snack room
alright where you get your water and your snacks we like pop your phone out
and you check your Facebook and your Instagram all right so instead of doing
those things I challenge you to always stay engaged so if nothing's going on
with your patients I'm sure there's things going on with other patients so
ask to see certain procedures as they come up or if you have an opportunity to
insert an IV like ask for those ask your Clinical Instructor and ask the nurses
on that unit because guys we're paying for nursing school so we want to get the
most out of it as possible let's see Ashley hi Ashley
how's it going maternity clinical on the 22nd any tips yes these are all my tips
be prepared definitely be prepared for that specific clinical that you're going
to and then always stay engage and ask questions all right this is your chance
ask as many questions as possible and be engaged so always constantly look for
things to learn all right and good luck on your clinical let me
know how that goes and then this is something I forgot our in my video I
posted it it's really really important let me see show thanks so if you have a
great clinical experience make sure you write letters write letters to your
Clinical Instructor or write letters to the nurses on the unit and just tell
them thank you thank you for letting us be here and learn and observe and watch
you guys and it'll really help you stand out and remember if this is a unit that
you want to apply to after nursing school after you graduate just writing a
nice thank-you letter will help you stand out and it'll also make the nurses
and Clinical Instructor feel really really good so that's definitely
something I highly recommend a handwritten note is a great way to
always ensure clinical and leave something for those nurses in the unit
that you are on clinical with hey I have Lucy here what's up guys let me know
where you're coming from where do you guys live I currently live in Seattle
Washington so I'm like way on the east coast of the United States and if anyone
is in the Washington State area I will be at legislative day at the Capitol on
January 22nd with the Washington State Nurses Association so if you're there
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questions for me again about nursing school or about Nursing reach out I'm
here to help you guys let's see Tommy that was me I was always at least 30
minutes early that was me too like I'm not the person who can get to clinical
like five minutes early like I'm always like 45 minutes there
minutes early I think that's just the anxiousness in me wants me to be there
like super super early so I always make time to get my Starbucks all right
vanilla latte every morning and then I'll take my study tip or my study stuff
and I'll study in the car beforehand so yeah it's getting there
Early's awesome what else who graduates in June Yolanda congrat graduate in June
that's awesome it's such a big accomplishment I bet you're so excited
and counting down the days let me know how many days until graduation
you haven't started to count down yet you definitely should so when I talk
about engagement in clinical it's not you have to be involved in everything
engagement is always looking for learning opportunities because you're
hands on experience and clinical is far better than things that you'll learn
just from a textbook or in the classroom so being with the patients and learning
Hospital policies and how everything works and med passes well those are
things that you're not going to be able to learn from a textbook or in a
classroom so you use your clinical time really wisely here a be five months and
four days that's I love when people have countdowns that like cracks me up and
some people will even have like I graduate in like five hundred and five
days and I'm like you guys are great you guys are all awesome and you guys thank
you guys so much for following my page and sharing my stuff and commenting you
guys are all great and you guys definitely inspire me to keep making
more videos what else do we have going on yes
I always couldn't sleep the night before scared the alarm wouldn't go off that is
so me I was always so anxious and nervous the night before because I'm
like oh my gosh I'm not gonna wake up I'm gonna miss my alarm so I would
always set like two alarms on my phone I would set in my like clock alarm twice I
would set my iPad to go off so that like let's say if I had to get up at 6:00
like alarms are going off from like 45 to 615 so I totally get you I get
that yes all right CJ California what's up West Coast how do you deal with
nurses that are not so engaging in welcoming to nursing students well
hopefully that will only be maybe one or a few of them so do note you do have
other nurses on the unit so if you have one that's getting a little you're
getting a little pushback from share that with your clinical instructor and
maybe they'll be able to intervene and help you out in that situation but if
that's not going well I definitely recommend you're in charge of your
clinical time all right so you're in charge of what you can do so I highly
recommend you look for other engaging experiences or try to learn another spot
on the unit if you're not learning with that particular nurse all right and then
maybe just try to build rapport with them you know nurses on units get
nursing students through a lot a lot a lot and nurses are typically busy on the
floor so definitely try to build rapport try to be very nice and kind and
courteous and help them as much as possible because that will help you and
maybe that'll loosen them up and you guys hope build a good rapport together
so you'll be able to get through clinical easier great questions CJ but
that does happen I get you what else
here from Wyoming first day of clinical today third semester Enrique I hope it
went really well where was your clinical at I think my first clinical was in a
nursing home was my very first clinical it was like right when we started
nursing school like we were in the nursing home it was like only a matter
of like two weeks or something so they really threw us right in all right Sarah
what advice do you have for completing a skill you've never done before practice
practice practice if you do have a nice lab set up at your school definitely
utilize that and practice as much as possible and then also watch videos on
YouTube I mean YouTube such a great resource and there's a lot out there for
nursing students so I highly recommend if your need to pack
I be insertion practice in the lab like as many times as possible with an
instructor with a peer and then watch videos on how to do it and then if you
want to practice that skill in real life definitely let your professor or
clinical instructor know hey I want to practice IV so not just on my patients
I'm caring for in clinical but any patients on this unit let me know if
there's an opportunity for IV insertion and then they'll be able to help you
find those opportunities and the more you practice the better
I mean skills you don't just try it once and you pick it up and every skill is
different on every patient like just because you do IV insertion on one
person doesn't mean you're gonna be able to nail every single one because all the
patients are different so definitely try to get practice in the lab doing videos
and then once you're comfortable practice as much as you can and realize
that clinical let's see what else is going on Shh
hazel from the UK been the nurse for three years in back at university for
further training that's awesome I love that I love my nurses you know further
their education there's so much more that nurses can do as in terms of
furthering their education so if that's something you're ever interested in
after you graduate from nursing school and you want to get some experience at
the bedside and then go back to school that's awesome that's great so good luck
hazel thanks for the comments okay I see Sarah too going into my second semester
of nursing school I'm always so nervous but love the hands-on learning I'm so
nervous to like I definitely the anxious one like I was nervous about everything
in nursing school but we could you 2 things that they're nervousness
it can either defeat us or it could strengthen us so I did everything in my
power to try to control my anxiousness like if I'm worried about being late I
would always make sure I'm really really early if I was worried about turning in
an assignment I would make sure I would be ahead of the game and make sure I
would do it really early and not wait till the last minute because then that
would just make my anxiousness a lot worse so always to try to stay on top of
things and try to prevent anxiousness when you know it can pop up so good luck
in your clinical
all right I'm taking mine this week so in CLECs I do get a lot of in
collects questions so in CLECs I use the ncsbn
and they are actually the creators of the Inc Lex and my recommendation is you
do as many practice questions as possible like you can't do enough
practice questions and if you get a chance and you want to do it through the
ncsbn I highly recommend it it works for me I know a lot of other nurses out
there they used it too and it worked for them so good luck studying do as many
practice questions as possible Caroline you got it and good luck I got a
question couch for sale no the couch isn't for
sale but just so you know it is a Love sack and I love it I was living in
Houston when I bought it and I took it with me to Seattle it's amazing it's a
great study couch - all right what else
all right I think that's it if you guys have questions leave them in the
comments I will be in the comments the rest of the night
happy 2018 good luck to you guys who are in nursing school reach out to me I'm
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nurse Blake thank you guys so much for watching you guys are awesome have a
great clinical and I will chat with you later bye