Clinical Sheet Sign Up Madness

mattsmom64 · Nov 11, 2008

I can't believe that your instructor let people sign up the way they did! I went to MCC and we had a more structured process. We always would have to submit our 3 choices for clinical locations. All selections were due at the same time and then the results were posted later. They did this to ensure that the students received a good variety of different clinical experiences (ie one semester with and adjunct instructor, the next with a ft faculty member) as well as to avoid cliques (sp)...It sounds like a practice that your school should adopt.....

boomerfriend · Nov 11, 2008

The immaturity of your fellow students is showing. Unfortunately, you cannot change the way this is done. However, you can speak to your instructor(s) about it privately.

Our school let us put down our preferences but we always ended up getting whatever they decided to assign us. We were asked about carpools, day-preferences, etc. It was done in an orderly manner and the sign up sheet was passed around with no one getting preference based on who signed up first. That's bad on your instructor's part to set it up that way.

azscot · Nov 11, 2008

Seem like it is more organized at Mesa.

I hate when they pass stuff round the class thats important. Study sheets etc. Someone always get stiffed!

Maybe its just me as I am no good at pushing to the front.

My kids tell me I should start practicing line jumping at Costco with the food samples. The skills will come in handy!

caliotter3 · Nov 11, 2008

My school did not do it this way. Not good at all. We had a big meeting where a lot of stuff was hashed out. They held a lottery or came up with another means to determine which number "group" you would be in; usually had to do with your last name and the alphabet. Group 9 might be letters G through L or SSNs ending in 9. That group would have clinical placement such and such with such and such as the instructor. I think I remember there being exceptions, such as the RNs being able to pick their groups or something like that. Anyway, it was pretty much fair. Nobody could complain. Your school's method is plain wrong. Not fair at all. I'm surprised that the admins can't do better than that.

Multicollinearity, BSN, RN · Nov 11, 2008

I'm surprised some of you have sign up sheets or choices at all. We don't.

jschut, BSN, RN · Nov 11, 2008

We had it that way in our classes too. Unfortunately, the group I was in usually was "stuck with" the ones that didn't want to do their share.

After a few times of this, we learned to get right in there and get ourselves signed up too! (Yes, we had a group, but we liked to work together and we were all friends...), but I like caliotter's idea too!

asgirl · Dec 1, 2008

We used to have to log onto the internet and select from the preferences there, and whichever one you selected you got into, of course if you wanted to be guaranteed of a good one (Or a local one) you had to get on as soon as it opened at midnight because usually within a few hours all the good ones were taken (I remember one placement, one site was gone within an hour -6 places), this process was also used for class/timetable selection. However the placement signup has changed so that now you log on at a set time put down your list of preferences and then after the closing time they randomly allocate people to their placement sites depending on preferences but their is no guarantee that you will get a prefrence. The only way of guaranteeing getting a placement you want is to put in an out of town placement request form. Not many people like the new system compared to the old one though.