I can't go to the ICU!

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    A little background: I'm just starting the final year of my nursing program. Our clinicals allow for us to have certain observation sites are various hospital units, one of them being the ICU. I have a very strong interest in critical care and would really love the opportunity to go here during school, even though it would just be a one day observation.

    So now today during orientation, as we were being handed our clinical site rotation, the teacher states that unfortunately, a conflict with another local school has lead to the ICU rotation site being removed from clinicals this semester. I'm extremely disheartened, the ONE place I was looking forward to is now gone all due to another school in another county getting the spots for its students first, or whatever happened. Am I overreacting, like I said, its just one observation day, but it was one I was REALLY looking forward to. I want to work in critical care, and I feel any way to get my name known in the ICU would help when job hunting, and one opportunity has already been taken away from me.
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    Yes you are overeacting. It's just one day out of your life. You will survive.One observation day is not going to make or break your career.It does not mean you will not ever get into the ICU.Make the most of the experiences you get offered and don't complain about what you didn't get. Life is full of disappointments.This small potatoes.If you think you will get into ICU as a new grad you will likely be disappointed.
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  5. I can see how you would be disappointed.

    I always disliked my observation clinical days. Talk about looking like the bumpiest bump on a log. You are spending half your day just figuring out where everything is on the unit.

    It was hard to impress anyone with just ONE day, anyhow. So don't take it too hard. Try to see if you can do your senior preceptorship there.
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    It was hard to impress anyone with just ONE day, anyhow. So don't take it too hard. Try to see if you can do your senior preceptorship there.
    Yeah I would absolutely love to have an ICU preceptorship next semester. I guess I was thinking that maybe this observation would help, in whatever little way, to get me a preceptorship position there.

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