Clinical
Hello!🤗 I’m on my 3rd month of 12 months program. Few days ago I had my first clinicals and I need reassurance because I started questioning my life choices😅 We got to the facility and we didn’t have any orientation with our instructor she assigned us to our nurses and left. I thought that we will be shadowing nurses first and then they will let us do something on our own but instead my nurse was like go do my vitals.. mind you I never had a sim lab and I don’t have experience as a CNA or med tech (I work at healthcare but I don’t have typical nursing tasks). I was shocked but asked my classmate about help and he showed me how to do vitals. I feel very discouraged because all of my classmates are CNAs and have lots of useful skills. Some of my classmates were laughing at my lack of experience and not knowing how to do vitals.. I’m a good student and have good grades but I feel demotivated and stupid after that clinical. I’m so scared of the upcoming clinical and idk what to do. I have a notes on what I need to improve on and I’ll watch YouTube to learn stuff but still I feel like a failure 😞 I was just wondering if that’s how clinical look like..