First clinical day as an NP student tomorrow :)

[HikingEDRN]

First clinical day tomorrow as an NP student (health assessment class). I'll be in a pre-op assessment area. Any advice? I think I have the obvious ones down - be nice, ask questions, don't say "well where I work, that would never happen..." - lol. Little nervous but excited too :)

[HikingEDRN, BSN, RN]

Just out of curiosity how many days out of the week do u have clinicals and what are ur hours?? I am starting my masters next month and I haven't received my clinical schedule yet.

This clinical was only two days (10 hours each) for the whole semester for my health assessment class. I then have some radiology hours (maybe 9 total) and the GU for male/female hours (6). I start my acute care cohort this fall and believe it will be 1-2 days per week.

[HikingEDRN, BSN, RN]

I did my assessment clinical in a group of students (5 of us I think) with a single preceptor in a busy ED. The preceptor worked upstairs and decided she'd rather go back to work, so we just hung out by ourselves all day and tried to find a patient to talk to. It was a total waste of time, though I did learn something about how an ED works.

TammyG, what a letdown. Sorry that happened to you I know preceptors can be difficult to find but five students with one preceptor seems a bit ridiculous.

[phea]

That sucks! we have a limit of 2 students per preceptor.....I hate it when they do that how are we supposed to learn anything! I hope you have better luck in the future and find someone willing to teach!