PAmom

I did just 3 days for PSA and I hated it. You are basically a babysitter with higher rate of paying. it is very hard a) emotionally - kids are really sick with little hope to ever get better and parents are exhausted, b) physically - you do have to carry kids around because unlike adults, even if they are sick, they do want to play, c) intellectually - you are not learning anything, you do not have contact with anybody except parents who are often not even home...It is very routine care...I would suggest gettring into either clinical trials or hosptal administration.

I could not find any suitable externship either. Probably I left it for too long - sent e-mails in a hope someone would contact me and they did not...Should have called earlier...Not easy to fing phone numbers, though. And when you call, you only get answering machine, and they did not call you back...Anyway, I wanted L&D or NICU/pediatrics and could not find any. Others probably were not choosing me beacuse I put it in my resume as an objective (pediatric/L&D). Got one interview, they wanted full time Sat/Sun included, and not 3-12, but 5-8! Too much for the summer - what would I do with my own kids? They did not make an offer anyway...That was it...Did not apply to nursing home - I know somebody has to do it, but I've done enough bed baths and enemas this year at my med-surg and cardiac, wanted to take a break at summer...Any advice? I would now take any externship if it is part-time, even med-surg...but not nursing home...