Clinicals at Health South?

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Specializes in Critical Care RN.

I will be entering SPC's nursing program this January. I am so Excited. I got my schedule, and it says my clinicals would be held at Health South Hospital in Largo. Has anyone attended SPC's nursing program and done clinicals at Health South? What's it like?

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Hey, I will be starting in Jan. at Health South!!! Are you in the day program? If so, we'll be together :yeah:

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Specializes in Case mgmt., rehab, (CRRN), LTC & psych.

I am employed at a Healthsouth facility in another state. The facility has a variety of skills to learn: wound care, suture and staple removal, IV therapy, administration of blood products, medication pass, CPM machines, bladder scanning and training, bowel stimulation, and so forth.

The patients are also varied: some are elderly and debilitated, and others are there for rehab after major CVAs (strokes). Others are postsurgical cases: hip and knee arthroplasties, laminectomies, kyphoplasties, CABGs (coronary artery bypass grafts), bowel resections, colectomies, fresh colostomies, urostomies, fresh PEG tube placements, limb amputations, etc.

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Specializes in Critical Care RN.

The Commuter: Thank you for your response

VKF3: I'm in the night program. I know we don't go to clinicals for the first bunch of weeks. Do we report to the HEC on those days? At what time? I'm a little confused. Btw holyyyy book list! Good luck with your day program. So exciting!

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At testing, the proctor said that we report at normal time the first day (which is a lab or lecture day, not sure) and they will tell us from there. They said its usually the first 10 weeks of clinicals that are in class for check offs of skills. Good luck!! You'll graduate one semester before days, awesome!!!

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