I'm a first semester nursing student, and in my school, the first 6 weeks, you don't have clinical, but you learn skills and practice in the lab, then starting right after that, you go into clinical. We have two clinical rotations per semester, and tomorrow is our last day of our first one! I can't believe it!
I had the clinical instructor who is notorious for being the hardest, but also the best to start out with because you'll be prepared for being with every other instructor and be ahead of the game for everything too. I was on a telemetry/med-surge floor which was kind of cool, and I think a pretty good place to start.
Starting next week, I'll be with the most relaxed of the clinical instructors on a renal floor, so I'll definitely have a lot of different stuff...probably a lot more catheters haha!
As much as I love my current instructor, I'm really glad that we get to switch because it gets intense having to be at a higher level than everyone else and therefore having to do so much more work! Plus, since my program tries not to put you with the same instructor twice, wherever I end up next semester, it'll be in a place that's a happy medium since I will have gotten both extremes this semester.
Any of you done with a rotation right now? How's your semester going?
We don't start passing meds, hanging IVs and catheterizing pts until our second semester.
First semester we're responsible for vitals, bed baths, oral care, dressing changes (after we do our competency), recording I+O, assessment, documenting the things that we do etc.
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We don't start passing meds, hanging IVs and catheterizing pts until our second semester.
First semester we're responsible for vitals, bed baths, oral care, dressing changes (after we do our competency), recording I+O, assessment, documenting the things that we do etc.