How do you pick your clinical assignment?

[HyperRNRachel]

In the past we were allowed to sign up for a certain teacher, but did not know the actual clinical site until days before our first clinical day. This semester we sign up for a section number, without knowing the instructor or clinical site. I disagree with this new type of registration. I would like at least a little bit of information, especially when it comes to my education.....the education that I am paying for. The office has been kind enough, only if you asked, to inform us that a particular section is an hour away so we know to not sign up for that one. The instructors must be sworn to secrecy, because they are not saying anything. Its seems to me the office will be left making different types of concessions for all the students who blindly sign up for clinicals that may be up to an hour or more away.

Does anyone know the reasoning behind doing it this way??

[maire, ASN, RN]

I didn't read all the replies in this thread, so sorry if I am just repeating what everyone else has said. When I sign up for classes, I pick a section - meaning day clinicals or night clinicals. I don't know the location of the clinical site or the teacher until maybe 2 weeks before the class starts (that's different this semester; I found out about a week after my last class was over). It did suck on a few occasions when the hospital I was assigned to was an hour away, but it wasn't bad overall.

[jschut, BSN, RN]

The only thing we're allowed to choose is the town we have our clinicals in from a choice of 2. Otherwise we have to do whatever they tell us to.

[All_Smiles_RN]

Ouch, I already drive an hour north to get to school. I hope clinicals aren't another hour north... that would be one heck of a drive home! I'm not sure how it works, hopefully I'll find out at orientation in 3 weeks. Directly next door to my campus is a trauma center, wouldn't it be sweet to get clinicals right there?

...Jennifer...

[JudithL_in_NH]

Hi, Whitney--

I'm at NHCTC in Manchesta. Most of the clinical sites are between 35-45 minutes from me--plus you have to add in another 15 minutes since they make the students park in another county and walk to the site!

(I used to teach English at Riv--hope you enjoy it there!)

[Ruylupez]

Picking clinical assignments is easy in my school...The instructors take the list of available clinical locations and then go down the class list assigning students to the times and locations available. The only adjustments they will make is to avoid conflicts with class schedules.