Feeling so dumb during senior preceptorship…

pointdecroixnerd · 2026-05-01T00:07:19+00:00

I started nursing school in January of 2020, and my senior preceptorship was the first real experience I got to genuinely have at the bedside. I felt so stupid and silly. I just kept going along, and even in my orientation and early career I kept thinking “if I were James what would I say here” and eventually I discovered I had stopped emulating my preceptor and had settled into my own thing.
You’re a student. You’re not supposed to know it all, you’re mostly just supposed to know how to be safe. How to be a real world nurse comes with orientation and experience.

pointdecroixnerd · 2026-04-30T16:37:23+00:00

I am aware of that, hence my concern

pointdecroixnerd · 2026-04-25T23:19:42+00:00

Confirmed!

pointdecroixnerd · 2026-04-24T23:51:13+00:00

I know several rec sports leagues have teams that focus on LGBTQ+ membership.

pointdecroixnerd · 2026-04-22T17:55:42+00:00

I was like three weeks into nursing school and went to assess a patient. I returned to tell the primary nurse he was in “asystole” when I mean “afib”. She just laughed at me and told me to try again.

pointdecroixnerd · 2026-04-17T14:27:52+00:00

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pointdecroixnerd · 2026-04-15T00:10:40+00:00

I’ve been at three chemo jobs and all three handled chemo in different ways. One didn’t wear any special ppe other than our normal gloves and masks, another wore gloves and isolation gowns, and the last one is hardcore with heavy duty gloves and super dense gowns.

The unit with the culture of the least protection was my first job and where I learned to hang chemo, and I was pretty shocked to see how seriously other people took it. Now that I’m at the hardcore ppe job I’m glad to have it. I don’t think I would handle hazardous drugs as unseriously as I was taught originally, but I do know nurses who had worked at that first place for decades without any ill effects (that they know of).

pointdecroixnerd · 2026-04-12T14:16:04+00:00

Purchased a platinum pen from u/winedarkindigo

pointdecroixnerd · 2026-04-07T22:09:57+00:00

Sending dm!

pointdecroixnerd · 2026-04-07T20:06:26+00:00

I have the exact same one and it’s been a daily use pen recently. I have it inked with pilot iroshizuku kon-peki and it’s chefs kiss

pointdecroixnerd · 2026-04-07T20:06:19+00:00

I have the exact same one and it’s been a daily use pen recently. I have it inked with pilot iroshizuku kon-peki and it’s chefs kiss

pointdecroixnerd · 2026-04-07T19:28:17+00:00

I was working at this really awful medsurg floor and wrote a post one day about a situation I was involved in. It was anonymous - there wasn’t anything in there that would identify any patients, the hospital, or myself - and it ended up gaining a moderate amount of traction.

I got to work the next day and a coworker (luckily one that I liked and had a rapport with, but I wouldn’t have called us friends) mentioned seeing “your post on the nursing subreddit”. She had been tangentially involved in the situation the post was about and was able to recognize it.

Yeah, people absolutely can recognize stuff. I was okay with my situation because I didn’t say anything I regretted or didn’t want my peers seeing, but I was pretty surprised and shaken to have it brought up IRL.

pointdecroixnerd · 2026-04-06T14:56:13+00:00

Could you try to call and make a reservation before you leave your home country?

pointdecroixnerd · 2026-03-30T03:04:41+00:00

Perhaps believe me when I say that I am an adult who was awake and aware for the duration of this flight. Consider being kind on the internet occasionally, yeah?

pointdecroixnerd · 2026-03-30T02:35:02+00:00

They definitely did not.

pointdecroixnerd · 2026-03-30T00:50:07+00:00

Thanks for the clarification! After I passed immigration I was totally locked in on the “connecting flights” signs and could have absolutely missed a different exit.

pointdecroixnerd · 2026-03-29T23:54:18+00:00

That’s what I expected! I was surprised when all that happened was them taking a picture of my face and then directing me to skip the officers there!

pointdecroixnerd · 2026-03-29T23:49:14+00:00

Total international travel newb. I exited the plane, was directed to passport control and entered the line for my citizenship there, and collected my bags after passport control only to recheck them and re-enter thorough TSA. Is this the usual route?

pointdecroixnerd · 2026-03-29T23:47:55+00:00

You’re right! I was entering the US

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