Nurse

As with all hospital-based placements my current placement requires a lot of communication with nurses. On the first day myself and another student spoke to the nurse looking after the two patients we had been allocated to organize a convenient time to see these patients. We had been told that this is especially important on this ward. I approached the nurse in what I thought was a friendly manner and addressed her as her name was written on the board. She walked off and said to the other nurse ‘I just shouldn’t answer that should I?’ I thought she must have had a problem with the way that I had addressed her but she was annoyed that I had pronounced her name wrong. She then corrected me and informed us that her name was spelt wrong on the board. I didn’t think that this was a huge issue but apparently to her it was. We tried to organise a time to see the patient but she was not being helpful at all. This just really annoyed me and demonstrated to me that even though we may try and do everything right there are some nurses that are still not going to be helpful and do not like us.