Re: attitudes to students
A couple of semesters ago I had a bit of a todo with my labour ward mentor. On occasion we don't really get on - not that we clash, just that she never really teaches much or talks to me, never gives feedback or anything like that. Anyway, we had just done a quick final interview, we had about 10 minutes at the end of a shift to do it. It was my last shift, and my mentor just wrote down some bits and then rushed off home. I got home and read her comments. Some of them were quite negative - just stuff like lacking confidence and not being fast enough with paperwork. She also put that when things got wrong I need to take more of a role. I was absolutley gutted and really disappointed that during the whole four week placement she had never once mentioned any of these things, and then I had several weeks before I was going back on there. For a few days I dwelt on it and got really down and depressed. It really knocked my confidence and I dreaded going back. I'm normally quite shy and quiet, but I decided I would go in to talk to her. I went in and said how I felt that she had never talked about it and never gave me feedback. She went bright red and said that she didn't want to make me feel bad. Since then, she has been great and regularly gives me feedback and says when I have done a good job and talks about things I need to work on. I just wish I had spoken to her sooner cos I would have developed a hell of a lot more quickly.
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 3rd year Student Midwife
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