Hello Everyone: My name is Hudson and I'm an instructor in a VN program. I have taught both clinical and didactic, but currently I'm only in the clinical setting. One of the challenges I encounter in clinical is getting some students to use common sense. I believe there must be a foundation of common sense before one can develop critical thinking. For example, a former student was walking down the hallway of our clinical site. I was following behind her, but she didn't know I was there. She was carrying a cup of coffee to a patient's room (not her assigned patient). As she passed her assigned patient's room, I could hear the patient yelling "Help! Help!" The student didn't stop. She kept going down the hallway and delivered the cup of coffee. Once I checked on the patient and made sure she was okay, I took the student aside and asked her if she had heard her patient calling for help. She said yes, and I asked her why she didn't stop to check on her patient. She gave me a confused look and said, "So, I shouldn't deliver the coffee?" We then had a conversation about appropriate priorities of care and which task would be more important. I wasn't sure what else to say to the student. I felt the correct choice was obvious, but maybe I'm missing something.