JamesRed

Great ideas! I’ve realized too that my assumptions about clinicals haven’t helped my situation either.

I loath clinicals. I’m a middle aged second career student who made the mistake of telling my clinical instructor that I have no prior medical experience and that made me nervous. What has resulted is I have been the only person excluded from anything. I consistently get assigned patients that are awaiting discharge. There are no IVs to do. No catheters to assist with. Literally no opportunity. I failed to realize that people see low self confidence as incompetence. So I’m about done. My fellow students are learning a host of new things and are working in busy wings. I’m sitting by the nurse station waiting for lunch deliveries. We get assigned patients so just wandering around isn’t an option. I’m trapped. I've just emailed the clinicals instructor over my frustration but it pretty degrading to have to ask why I’m out out to pasture.