Nursing Student | How to Handle A Bad Experience On Placement 

Tears are literally streaming down my cheeks watching this, I am on my first placement the staff nurse are so short with me, I can honestly say I have been humiliated into submission, my enthusiasm is crushed, I am getting on amazing with difficult patients and all parents like me but yep I am getting destroyed with being constantly being picked apart. It is hard enough as a mature student but I am doing the same I am just keeping a low profile. Thank you so much for this deep breaths I am counting the days until I am finished sending love xxx

There are plenty of nasty people in the nhs I’m glad you’re one of the good ones

Thank you Clair that is honestly so helpful and makes a difference when u feel alone on this journey 😊

You were so right to report that incident, you have saved a lot of patients being abused, I really respect what you did, it took guts and integrity ..

This video is definitely one of my favourites ☺️

Thanks for this. Your videos are really opening my eyes as I mentally prepare for my placement.

Thank you Claire :)

Excellent vid, very positive and good advice. How we react to other people is very important, and the more practice we get in choosing to respond professionally and positively (despite the other persons negativity) the better. This builds positive resilience skills. Not easy but worth doing and also adding in lots of self care for us too, as dealing with other peoples negativity can be draining (and upsetting). Good support systems are important. I think you would be a good mentor in the future if you went down that route. Take care. :)

Very helpful. Thanks for sharing 😗

I've just found your channel and I wish I'd found it last year. Only 7minutes in to the video and I'm already feeling better 💙 I'm on placement just now and I love it, but I recently had a miscommunication with some colleagues and it had me in tears. We sat down and talked it through and I went from almost walking out and packing it in, to doing CPR compressions and feeling fantastic in the space of a few hours! Thank goodness I didn't leave in tears or I'd have woken up today feeling awful and maybe not going back for my next shift. Talking things through is so important and reflecting on what went wrong or didnt understand is so important. Its all part of our learning. Not every placement is going to be amazing but you will still come away with lots that you have learned. Off to finish the video now... x

I am glad I came across your videos. I am just about to qualify and I am on a make up time placement in a ward. I did not feel very welcomed and I get the feeling my mentor doesn’t want to teach me because she has other students in different years from me. I was literally just left to do everything on my own. It was a horrible first shift and I now feel like I don’t want to go back. I have cried most days and I still have four weeks left. I am really hoping these shifts fly in and then I can get into my sign off and start learning for my job once I qualify. I just need to find the motivation to push through

I’m an OT student but I really needed this thank you xx

This has helped me, I am on my first ward placement as all of mine have been on community which I’ve loved. The staff are great nurses, very good to the patients and they’re nice but their hard if that makes sense. There’s no warmth to it in my opinion. I want to get the experience and be enthusiastic. I have 5 weeks to go. This has helped reassure me because I’ve been thinking am I up for this

Thank you so much for making this video, i struggle sometimes with placement & my stress gets very high during this time but watching this video helped me to put things in perspective. This is my mantra from now on " one bad day at placement or one bad 4-6 week placement is not gonna define me. I still gonna have an amazing nursing career ahead " Thank you so much, sending best wishes your way from Australia :)

I needed to hear this 😭😭😭

Claire I'm about to qualify and like you I'm not a ward nurse. In fact, I don't intend to work for the NHS as a nurse at all. That's one thing I did discover during my three years of placement.

Hello Claire, a bit off topic but could you give us an update on the new curriculum coming in. I’m starting next year in September 2020 (hopefully if I get my a level results) and I’m really interested in what’s new in the course. Thank you!

im just trying to upband after 10 years plus on band 2. i give right back at them and tell them i wont put up with any crap. period im paying them

see I am looking to apply for nursing this December but its the fear of having a bad mentor or a horrible experience at placement that makes me doubt my decision.

Wel Wel my son spent 2months 13 hours shift and mentor on holidays he was shift about one department to another there are too many mentors who do you listen too at the end of placement you thank you with card and you get bad report it's bad end of the day there were once students.

I have a student nurse who has sceamed in my face at least 3 times on her placement, in 24 years I have never come accross this, ever. It works both ways actually.

I am on my final year as a student nurse on placement . I am thinking of quitting the course. My mental health has suffered during these years I guess there is still bias towards male nurses or maybe just when you are male East Asian student nurse. They think just because you're being nice you are stupid. People treat you differently and less than students from other nationalities.

this carer was really rude to me to point i felt useless i was in surgical ward i usually take only 4 patients but ofcorse we help out with other inbetween also i had to help with admission and preparing patient before surgery. my nurse mentor was really busy she was lovely. i kept on telling myslf its ok the lady just having a bad day but she shouteed at me in front of patients, and constantly pulling me from helping out a patient whom i was in the middle of washing she didnt even knock just to help her make bed. she was complaing, she gave me dead on evils and justt sighing at me constantly , and i ligit told please dont be mad i am trying and but i doing toilliting and pre opperation preparation in between. but every time i tall she kept walking away. i finally had enough this lady went for her break and told me i dont have time to go to mine i asked her to help me out with very heavey patient with transfer, she didnt come. i went to the ward clerk told her and asked to switch sides they tld me its not the first time people say this about this lady its her personality and gave me the option to complain. i said no i didnt want that for a person even when i switched sides of ward she confronted me and said she needs a word with me and why i went crying to the clerk than talking to her i dont knowwhat more i should say to her she kept walking away from me. later on the whole of carers refused to speak to me and they were being overly nice and standing in a group and talking with this lady this lady was openly taling trasjh about me but everyone just ignored it like its normal only person who stood up for me was another student nurse. i really should have given awritten complaint about that lady i reret it. im scared to go anywhere near that ward i hope it dosent happen to another person but as a person with anxiety and depression making me feel useless and telling me rude thing turning others against me i honnestly was feeling really low that day if my mum wasent here to support me told me it wasent my fault because she a nurse and they dont treatthe STN that way i didnt go through with what i was planning that day.

Hi Claire! Just wanna ask if you still do the student placement pack I want one please!!!

Hello Claire. As I am typing this I am crying. Do you know what to do when you failed placements in year one? My tutor recommended retrieval placement. Do you know what it is? Please respond .

I fail my first placement bcz of one of nurses don’t like me with no reason and every hour complain my facilater

Is there lots of essay? During your 1st year?

I have diagnosed PTSD from my last clinical 👌

Are you speaking Gaelic? The lip movement is not in sync.