pedirn57

I am on line at Northern Kentucky Univerisity, I have been very pleased with the program and the faculty has been great check them out at NKU.EDU

try the public health clinics and federally funded clinics, thats what i did trying to get a tprivate practice site is hard. mosth of the public health clinics and federally funded clinics get lots of students from medical school, np schools etc. i have also found that you see more variety in these settings. also you get to do alot of teaching which i find fun to do:heartbeat:cool:

I had quite a varied background. mostly peds. a little adult med surg a brief stint in NICU, I am claustrohobic so that was not a good place for me, now I am working at a peds clinic, as far as school goes I am enjoying my program I am doing an online program with Northern Kentucky University, some semesters are more stressfull than others, but no more than undergrad

Yes kids can be scary, I am in a PNP program and sometimes they scare me, on the other hand adults terify me , I started out in an FNP program because that seemed to be the way to go half way into my second clinical I realized it was not for me I was unhappy and it showed in my clinical so I quit took some time off to reflect and decided to go with my true passion. You will find that kids are pretty resiliant, some times they are uncooperative and yes the parents can be a pain in the keister, but rememeber it is only for a short time, and who knows your may actually have alot of fun with them.

Thanks to everyone who responded now one more question, how many patient's a day should I be expected to see on my own at first. If any one remembers I had started clinicals earlier, and it was not a good fit and she had me going in to see 20 patients a day, honestly by the time my day was done my brain was mush,

Just curious to those who are doing or have done clinicals, what was the expectation of your preceptor, did you follow her/him, or did you just jump in. My preceptor wants me to just jump right in on my own the first day, I am already nervous and this is kind of adding to my stress level.

no just quits with this precepter, and actually I spoke with a nurse I used to work with, to get some precepter suggestions and she gave me a list of pediatricians in the area who are well thought of at the hospital she works at and she then said what ever you do dont have Dr. XXX because that Dr. is very hard around the edges and is known to put nurses down, and doesnt like to be questioned, I did not mention that I had already done 5 days of clinic with her and that it was not a good fit. I dont want to burn my bridges so to speak, it would not be wise for me to say anything against the Dr. as it would easily get around , she is very smart, knows her stuff, but it was not a good fit for me, so I am moving on:redbeathe

Thanks, my preceptor is an MD, I realize she has much more knowlege and I do respect that, and I do appreciate every ones input, but I have pretty much decided to call it quits , I dont see the point in continuing to drive myself nuts over this, I dont see how this could be a good learning enviroment when I only get stressed going to clinical

Thanks everyone for your support, I did call the preceptor yesterday to let her know that I was not coming back, I did thank her for her time, her response to me was well I have precepted alot of students, this was supposed to have been a fun thing to do, considering I dont get paid to do this, but I was totally exhausted after a day in clinic with you I dont know what your problem is. I spoke again with my advisor and the only thing we could come up with was when she would ask me a question I would reply with what I had learned in didatic, such as dosing of amoxicillin for OM, I learned it depended on certain factors such as is the child in day care, the same with motrin, I learned that it depended on how high the fever was, etc, etc, when she would tell me what she does I would respond oh, this is how I was taught, I guess she took this as being argumentive and defensive, that was not my intent, I just wanted to let her know why I responded the way I did, we were talking one day about Tamiflu, and that a mom had heard that there were reports of psychiatric side effects, I told my precepter that I had just read an article on that and that this had happened in Japan, she told me that I had to be carefull of where I got my informaition, I replied that it had come from the CDC, she gave me a look that said yeah right, well later on the Tamiflu rep came in and my preceptor asked her about it and the drug rep replied oh yeah you have last years insert, and there was reports of this but it only happened in Japan, did my preceptor bother to acknowldege that I had told her the same thing earlier NO,so tell me do I sound argumentive or am I just a NP student trying to clarify information, sorry this is so long but now that I am over the humiliation of being told that I am uneducatable which I know I am not I can think more clear about things that happened in clinic, and any suggestions for improvement is appreiciated, I got the feeling with her that I was in dog obedience school,but with out any praise for the knowledge I do have.

Help after 5 days with my preceptor she told me I was argumentative and defensive this happened after I asked why she chose not to taper steroids, her comment to me was you can do what you want but this is the way I do it, she that stated I was argumentative and defensive and she was getting mad, and that I was uneducatable:angryfire I spoke with my advisor and she was pretty upset and told me to cut my losses and find another preceptor, should I just quit altogether or what