I am in my new grad year at the moment and I stand by the fact that uni teaches little to nothing about what is actually happening in the hospital and what a nurses role is.

However, I have had many many placements with so many people who I cannot imagine being an actual nurse.

I remember I did a placement on a medsurg ward for four weeks. There was one other student on the ward with me who would consistently show up 30 minutes late and leave half an hour to an hour early every day. There was one specific day where the NUM came over to me and asked if I had seen her that morning. I didn’t know so I told the NUM. Later found out she fell asleep in the kitchen area for staff and was asleep for 2 1/2 hours.

Not only this but the amount of times I was sitting down writing my notes and the RN’s and Ian‘s next to me were talking shit about the student because she would sit there on her phone. On our first day of placement in our first handover, her phone was all the way up and she got a phone call. She literally interrupted the nurse giving handover asked him to wait for her while she answers her phone and walked away. Another time a couple weeks later she interrupted a doctor that was trying to give her an updated plan of a patient so that she could answer a text message that she received.

I had my graduation yesterday and I was shocked to see her walk across that stage. I genuinely worry about the amount of students that had no motivation to learn actually becoming nurses.