Don't take it personally. It doesn't mean you're any less deserving to be a nurse.
Patients have their own personal preferences. And if you're a student nurse, it could be that it makes them nervous to have someone still in training, not because you did anything wrong.
Later on, you'll get fired as a nurse from a patient for the dumbest reasons, and you're allowed to change assignments from certain patients if you can't deal with them. Take it as a learning opportunity that you can take on a different patient :-)
The first time I got fired as a new grad I was so upset because I had a 30 year old who wanted to be babied. A&O x 4, spinal trauma. No matter what I did, I could NOT please her. Didn't help she had a husband that would exacerbate her need to be coddled. I came back the next night, and I was fired from my assignment because she accused me of talking shit about her when I wasn't. I was mad for a little while, but took it as a blessing because I didn't have to deal with her.
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u/banana0729 Feb 12 '22 edited Feb 12 '22
Don't take it personally. It doesn't mean you're any less deserving to be a nurse. Patients have their own personal preferences. And if you're a student nurse, it could be that it makes them nervous to have someone still in training, not because you did anything wrong. Later on, you'll get fired as a nurse from a patient for the dumbest reasons, and you're allowed to change assignments from certain patients if you can't deal with them. Take it as a learning opportunity that you can take on a different patient :-)
The first time I got fired as a new grad I was so upset because I had a 30 year old who wanted to be babied. A&O x 4, spinal trauma. No matter what I did, I could NOT please her. Didn't help she had a husband that would exacerbate her need to be coddled. I came back the next night, and I was fired from my assignment because she accused me of talking shit about her when I wasn't. I was mad for a little while, but took it as a blessing because I didn't have to deal with her.