Should I miss clinicals for...

[NurseLoveJoy88]

my bridal shower ? earlier in the year i posted a thread about me deciding whether to miss clinicals for my wedding or not. needless to say i did push my wedding back to august which is after my nursing program is finished. it was just way too risky and getting up 5 am on our honey moon night was not appealing to me at all. so we pushed it back to august 1 about a week after my pinning. my friend is throwing me a bridal shower in july however it falls on a clinical day. the shower is around 5:30 and clinicals is over around 4:30pm and it'll probably take me an hour from clinical to my bridal shower destination. so my question is should i go to clinicals and be an hour late to my b.s. or should i miss clinicals and focus on me for the day. also this will be the second to last clinical day for the class. if i do well i may use my critical u's on missing that one clinical. idk guys, what do you all suggest. oh before you ask... my friend already mailed out the invites so my b.s. day is final.

well, it's never a dull moment in the life of a nursing student....

[hiddencatRN, BSN, RN]

Thanks for reading. Now lets see who else yells at me even after I've come to my senses.

Maybe you could put an edit/update to your original post?

[MEDICJOHN]

An absoloutly absurd question. To even CONSIDER missing clinicals for something as fleeting as a shower is insulting and ridiculous!!!! U should have looked at the calendar before deciding to have the shower that day. Very poor judgment!

[beth66335, BSN, RN]

Thanks for reading. Now lets see who else yells at me even after I've come to my senses.

Unfortunately, people reply without reading to the end of a thread. I always try to skim through a thread to see what the OP has said before I reply...sorry people are still yelling, lol:heartbeat:heartbeat

[wee_oneRN]

An absoloutly absurd question. To even CONSIDER missing clinicals for something as fleeting as a shower is insulting and ridiculous!!!! U should have looked at the calendar before deciding to have the shower that day. Very poor judgment!

Yes, well nurse ARE allowed to have a life too. The level of stress in the replies is quite comical. I arranged to go to a friend's wedding on one of my clinical days (my husband was bestman). I simply switched to another day of the week with another instructor. It was no big deal. I do not think it counted against me, was just good time-management. This depends on your instructors of course, and which semester you are in. If there is no flexibility for your clinicals, then I think you have no choice but to be late.

However, it is very unhealthy to think that you have to completely set yourself and your life aside to be a good nurse. Good nurses take care of themselves too.

Congrats on your wedding and good luck!

[pharmgirl]

Don't miss clinicals, be an hour late. There isn't going to be a single person there that won't understand!! and btw...........CONGRATULATIONS!!!

[Silverdragon102, BSN]

OK I am going to close this as people are still commenting without reading and noticing that the OP isn't going to miss clinicals and that she did have some input on the date just didn't realise that there was a clinical day.

We all make mistakes we are human