on my last Clinical placement I have the comment that I spend too much time "doing my own thing" I refused to sign that I agreed. I wrote two sides of A4 on how I belive that by actually talking to my patients I hope to gain more insight than simply reading the notes alone. I was a Care Assistant in a Nursing home, then a Auxiliary in a ED, and it seems the days of being caring are over, after all apparently I am training to be a "Staff Nurse" not a "carer, psychologist, friend, volunteer or anyone who should have actual 'hands on contact apart from nursing interventions' " Makes me mad