Don't Trash Your Program In Clinicals!!!

I would like to share this bit of advice given to me by one of my clinical preceptors.

During one of my clinical rotations a group of us were standing in the hospital hallway talking.  A couple of students were busy bad mouthing our program.  Our preceptor heard the students, and said that when students stand in the hallway talking badly about their school the nurses on the unit hear you.  And when the nurses on the unit hear that kind of talk, your school gets a bad rep.  And if a school has a bad rep then the students get a bad rep.  And if students from a particular school have a bad rep then nurse managers won't want to hire them.  There is a kind of snowball effect.

There's nothing wrong with bitching about school with your classmates.  Everyone that has ever stepped foot in the door has done it.  Just try to be selective about where you do your bitching, and who you are doing your bitching in front of.