The whole doctor/nurse relationship again..
They are two very different careers, with the patient being a common ground. Nursing is as much a vocation as is medicine, and the majority (there are always the exceptions) of people go into nursing because they actually want to be nurses!
We are not jealous of you, our priority is patient care, and sometimes this is forgotten by the medical team. It seems very silly, but sending students into take a history from a patient over meal times, means the patient misses the one chance of a hot meal they may get. So we might get a bit annoyed when we have to go round the ward evicting students and docs in order to feed our patients.
I welcome the medical students on my ward, and always make an effort to talk to them, show them around, and even feed them chocolates, but sometimes it is like drawing teeth trying to get a conversation out of them! They come into the ward, huddle in a group of 2 or 3 and run in the opposite direction when you try speaking to them!
Basic things to remember to do:
Avoid protected meal times
Clean up after yourself (especially when doing bloods)
Introduce yourself to the nurses on the ward
If anyone has a problem with you, remember its not personal! Everyone has bad days, and some people have attitude problems. Its not necessarily related to being a doc or a nurse!
I can't wait to get on the wards as a medic! This is going to be fun...