I am a fisrt year student, and my goal is to do ER or pediatrics and I currently work in an ER as a tech. My school is giving us the option for next term to go to the state psych hosptial or do a med-surg rotation for clinicals.
My inital feeling is I don't want to go because I dont want to be a psych nurse, but because I want to work ED I feel that mabey I should go because at least 1/3 of our pts in the ED are for psych.
I think that the psych rotaion would only be for three weeks and then three weeks for med.
I am concerned about if I will get to practice enogh clincial skills during the psych rotation, as my last clinical experience the most that we got to do other than ADLS was passing PO meds and I guess that I am worried that psych might be similar to LTC in terms of the amount of skills that I would be learing.