not_batman

I feel like the school really dropped the ball on our community clinical We're last semester BSN seniors, and they're got us doing two things hospice rotations and traffic safety with schools. Isn't crosswalks, crossing the street, and such really the realm of public safety? We're working with a division of a global non-profit, which I won't name, to take 4-5 weeks of our clinical rotation to assess dangerous traffic patterns (mainly u-turns and mid-block crossing in front of the school) during drop off and pick up at a school; teach kids about crossing the street safely; and put on a assembly for the students in order to get them to sign a safe crossing pledge. I feel like this is the realm of the police and public safety. Are we doing real good and service to the community? Yes. Are we acting as free labor and brain power for this non-profit, under the facade that this is "our project"? Yes. Would my time be better served following around a public health nurse, school nurse, doing something with the health department,, working at a free clinic or something similar? I think so. Sorry about the rambling ranty-ness. Maybe I'm not conceiving of community and public health nursing in the right way? I'm feeling very conflicted, we're doing a good thing, but I'm feel I may not be getting the education and clinical experience that I should receive as a BSN student.