First clinicals tomorrow

[rubato, ASN, RN]

I'm soooooo excited! I have to be at the hospital and ready to go at 6:15 tomorrow. I have my dream assignment of oncology, but we'll mostly just be orienting and doing vitals tomorrow. This is the stuff I went to nursing school for, and the last 3 weeks have been hard to get through. So, I'm glad to finally have a day where I can just soak it all in and experience real nursing (not me, but the nurse I'll be shadowing). Anyone else getting ready for clinicals.

[BostonFNP, APRN]

I will never forget my first patient of my first clinical (I was also in onc) who was s/p a radical neck. I was so amazed. Enjoy it!

[edatri]

My first clinical is Thursday. We're in long term care. Since the only skills we've been tested on has been hand washing, I'm expecting to do a lot of interviewing and bed-making. I've been practicing making beds all week (the CNA's in my nursing lab were giving me a hard time since I can get A's on the tests and quizzes but can't make a bed). My family is shocked, since we are such a busy family beds generally just don't get made, lol.

[Camwill, ASN, BSN, MSN, DNP, LPN, APRN, NP]

We start next Tuesday and I am so excited!! I am even more excited because we will not be going to nursing homes....I did that in Lpn school. We are going to med surg floor, for our whole first semester:)