Community health experience bad experience

These clinicals are part of the curriculum for the BSN program.  Once a week does not sound bad at all for your clinical. Have you tried looking for a different care center? Only thing I can say is just tough it out until it's done.

15 hours ago, adamastor said:

I'm a RN, I have to take time off work to be able to attend those "clinicals", and still charged a large tuition fee. I feel like I'm just there to do free labour and being demanded around.

My input regarding this comment is to get used to what you're doing now because the workload is gonna be more when you start your NP Program. You will more than likely be going to clinical at least twice a week and there's a bigger likelihood that you'll be doing more "work" albeit in a different matter and have a busy day, every day. I'm nearing the end of my NP Program and I would say I am doing probably 95% of the work for my precepting NP/MD (seeing patients, creating the POC, discussing it with the patient, education, and charting). Essentially, as an NP student you're basically working for free just like you are now as a BSN student.

21 hours ago, adamastor said:

Those tasks are extremely dry, tedious, boring and unrelated to the class I'm taking.

No, they are not unrelated.

You are serving clients who are having some of their basic health/survival needs met through community programs.

There is a wide range of community programs that are relevant and can augment your understanding of the health of your community (and the needs, the health disparities, the social determinants of health and more...)

It's unfortunate if you're getting zero opportunity to interact with the population being served, but it is what it is. You could try asking how to become involved in delivering the meals/riding along for that; then you would gain a little more understanding of the population you are serving. 

I thought public health was fascinating and yes, some of my time was spent working at a food bank helping to unload trucks and logging and storing donated food.

Is there an opportunity for you to find your own different experience that would qualify/meet your school's requirements? In my program we were required to have several different types of experiences and could not stay at the same place the whole semester.

Not sure what kind of NP work you're aiming for but community health generally has a good deal of relevance to the populations NPs serve.

Try to get the most you can from your opportunity.

Good luck~

On 1/22/2022 at 1:14 PM, adamastor said:

, I'm asked to type progress notes for each participant for a good 5 hours each time I go there.

If you are not seeing the participant, what patient assessment data are you putting in your notes?

32 minutes ago, londonflo said:

If you are not seeing the participant, what patient assessment data are you putting in your notes?

It sounds like the site is having the OP do their data entry for their records

On 1/22/2022 at 1:14 PM, adamastor said:

Those tasks are extremely dry, tedious, boring and unrelated to the class I'm taking. To make matters worse, the staff puts friendly pressure on me each time to complete work faster.

5 minutes ago, JKL33 said:

It sounds like the site is having the OP do their data entry for their records

I truly hope the OP realizes what the world is like for the elderly who do not have spouses or family to provide meals. We all want to be in a hurry to get to where we want to be....but if we miss the world our patients live in...how are we going to understand the ways we can help?

OP speak up.....go out with the drivers, connect with the recipients...Provide the objectives you are supposed to complete with this clinical.