Nurses are not knowledgeable after graduation

Not all though. I have to admit that nurses need a lot more work even after graduation. They still need guidance as they go on training. I see a lot of factors why this is happening. The population of nursing students is one. There were just so many students and not enough hospitals to go on training to. The nursing students as they go on duty, they are in a group of about 10-12. And in a shift, not everyone has the chance to practice. Another thing is, a lot of patients would not allow the students to be involved with their delivery. Applying for a training program is also hard these days. The tests are harder and the waiting time is longer. Some even say that tests from hospitals are way harder compared to the board exam. I am just puzzled why there is so much to be sacrificed to become a nurse. Not to mention that the pay is nothing compared to the demands of the job.

well i guess that is why in the hospital where i work, nurses have a separate training and they are to be thought again for another couple of months on the job... while they are still called as aids not as nurses even if they passed the board exams in the country. NUrsing and related jobs do require more internship, actual experiences and not only what they have learned in schools.

I beg your pardon. I am a nurse and I have been assigned in the Delivery room for 5months during my OJT. We're the one clamping the cord, we are the one catching the baby after delivery, suction the baby. And nurses have clerkship for 2 years cause it starts during the 3rd year to 4th year of the course. plus after graduation being a nurse is a continued learning process. we still undergo some training and physically browse back the lessons we had during college. Maybe the nurse that you have encountered came from a school that doesnt have good standards, or you have encountered a nursing aid and not a nurse.

Hi mimiang, Do not know the condition in your country but here in India there are mushroom growth of Nurse Training institutions and their main motto is to pile up money. Afterwards when these girls complete their nursing here or there anywhere they get an entry and cut a sorry figure. Actually the job of the nurse is more demanding than that of the doctors. But who cares? Besides after they have graduated, they are finished, I mean there is no further study on th subject. If a nurse does not keep herself updated how would she maintain their job?

I think maybe there are difference between your place and mine. In my place, nurse have to learn many things before they graduation. They also have to do intern for 2-3 semester to learn how a real hospital works. So, although new nurse are not good as a elder nurse, they still have most of the skills they need.

I think the problem is magnified in recent times when the demand for nurses rose. Nursing schools were sprouting here and there with no proper preparation and capability to train nurses. Then there's the problem of shortage of clinical instructors who are themselves well-trained. A lot of clinical instructors nowadays are young, inexperienced nurses who become instant trainers without sufficient training as hospital staff themselves and armed only with units in masteral studies in nursing or are yet to finish masteral studies. Masteral studies without hospital experience is difficult because these instructors cannot model to students the proper nursing interventions, etc. Coupled with immaturity for some of them and the small age in gap between student and instructor, it is really difficult for new nurses to learn properly in this setting. Some nursing schools on the other hand do not screen well their students taking the opportunity to get more students enrolled. They become lax with passing requirements because of this kind of thinking also, not thinking of the implications to future patients. Some recent graduates on the other hand do not take advantage of learning during their student years, unwilling or unafraid to do procedures (with supervision), not willing to become soiled, etc. but these can be corrected if the nursing school with their staff encouraged these kids to try out procedures. Question is if the young instructors also were able to perform these procedures or are they confident of doing them. Sometimes, wrong information is even passed by supposed clinical instructors. It is really unfortunate that these problems come as a result of a mixture of factors. I say the school should be strict in their training and not just see the education of nurses as a money-making venture. I say there should also be interprofessional education, not exactly same training between nurses and doctors but a special training for doctors to be familiar with doctors' jobs and concerns and vice versa. I cannot really single out the nursing profession as the only one having this problem, for this problem you mentioned may also happen to medical graduates with the wrong learning attitude in their medical school years or to medical schools who are to lenient to their students with regards to medical training.