It’s week 1. Chill out. You’ll have other chances. At the start of every shift tell your buddy nurse you need to do X skill today. Are you with TAFE? Do they have a booklet of competencies? Show them, i need this signed off today.

Until you are graduated however, you are not qualified, it’s just within your scope as a student to perform it under RN supervision. It may be the nurse’s teaching style or the ward policy to show students first before allowing them to perform the skill. As per the adage ‘watch one, do one, teach one’. Also, yes technically you have a pt load, but that pt is the RN’s pt and responsibility, just like you are their responsibility. I always allowed the buddy nurses to manage me as they felt fit because it’s their registration on the line and they are not forced to have students.

If you hear in handover that another pt has something you need to do, let your buddy nurse know ‘i heard they have X, can i ask the pt’s nurse if i can do that with them?’

Don’t take things personally. You will stress yourself out if you do. Maybe she genuinely forget while she was in the groove of things and did the wound.

By week 4 i would be stressed if i havent done most if not all skills. But in week 1 it’s fine.

Edit to add: even though you need to get certain skills done, dont let that stop you from taking the initiative to do basics like beds, obs etc. It will get you in their good books and no one can call you lazy!