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Different wards in each hospital have a different kind of working culture and specialized skills. One of the key factor of a nursing student to professional practice is to be able to make your own decision and use alot of own time for research. While as a student, when you do a nursing procedure, you will feel secure as you have an RN watching over you. However, as an RN, help will often (if not always) not be there and you are still expected to complete the tasks within the allocated time. Everyone wants to go home on time, want to complete their own tasks and have a quick break if possible. They are not exactly paid to help you. Even with nursing educator, they are saddled with paperwork and are spread too thinly to truly be of help. (Budget constrain)

1 of the tip is to get the ward staffs to like you~~ (yes, workplace politics) And when they like the new nurse/student, they tend to have more patience to teach and guide the newbie.
Is there a better way system to integrate student nurses into practice? Unfortunately, I believe there isn't at the moment, due to tight budget and the diversities of work and ward culture.

The other important factor lies within the student nurse/ new RN. Did he/she put in effort to learn as much as they can and try to take charge of a cubicle before they graduate? I have seen students who are enthusiastic and keep trying to learn new things and practice even though they have done it before and were allowed to do certain things independently and taking charge of patients and it opened up time for the RN to teach the student new things/knowledge. I have also seen students who acted like robots and show 0 interest in it because they are in a ward that didn't suit their taste as a workplace.

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Bucks04 (offline) Joined: Mar 2014 Location: Brisbane Posts: 1	Wed Apr 02, 2014 5:04 am A common subject and discussion in undergraduate nursing program's are the experiences had while on clinical practice and may possibly face when transitioning to nursing practice. Hearing some of the problems younger students have had with issues such as bullying, impatience, a reluctance to pass on knowledge and unreasonable expectations I have started to reflect oN my own experiences. As a 40 year old male who formerly worked in construction and who has mild cerebral palsy I felt like I had come up against issues such as condescencion, a reluctance to teach and sometimes unreasonable expectations or assessment from a minority of facilitators and registered nurses. On the whole I believe the experience has been good and I would expect that transitioning to professional practice will be similar but with greater expectation and stress of being paid. What are everyone's thoughts on their own experiences on being a student to transitioning to professional practice? Is there a better system to integrate student nurses into practice?

seraphim (offline) Joined: Mar 2013 Location: Posts: 56	Apr 03, 2014, 06:32 pm Different wards in each hospital have a different kind of working culture and specialized skills. One of the key factor of a nursing student to professional practice is to be able to make your own decision and use alot of own time for research. While as a student, when you do a nursing procedure, you will feel secure as you have an RN watching over you. However, as an RN, help will often (if not always) not be there and you are still expected to complete the tasks within the allocated time. Everyone wants to go home on time, want to complete their own tasks and have a quick break if possible. They are not exactly paid to help you. Even with nursing educator, they are saddled with paperwork and are spread too thinly to truly be of help. (Budget constrain) 1 of the tip is to get the ward staffs to like you~~ (yes, workplace politics) And when they like the new nurse/student, they tend to have more patience to teach and guide the newbie. Is there a better way system to integrate student nurses into practice? Unfortunately, I believe there isn't at the moment, due to tight budget and the diversities of work and ward culture. The other important factor lies within the student nurse/ new RN. Did he/she put in effort to learn as much as they can and try to take charge of a cubicle before they graduate? I have seen students who are enthusiastic and keep trying to learn new things and practice even though they have done it before and were allowed to do certain things independently and taking charge of patients and it opened up time for the RN to teach the student new things/knowledge. I have also seen students who acted like robots and show 0 interest in it because they are in a ward that didn't suit their taste as a workplace.

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