In my experience, the quality of clinical rotations vary greatly based on your clinical instructor. Some let us do much more than others. And some hospitals have rules about how many students can give out medications and what students can do. I'm not sure where your rotations are matter that much when applying for jobs, unless you have the option to do a rotation on a unit where you might want to work later.
My peds rotation was at Mt. Washington and I really enjoyed it, but I obviously can't speak for the other sites. There were a lot of young nurses there who seemed happy to have students and willing to give you work to do.
We did psych at JHH. There are apparently 2 psych floors; one is geri-psych floor, which is kind of relaxed... a lot of depression and pain management and the other one is more intense with patients with schizophrenia and such. So I'd look into which floor you'd get and consider what you want out of your psych rotation. I've also heard Sheppard Pratt Towson is pretty nice.
sassybunny
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In my experience, the quality of clinical rotations vary greatly based on your clinical instructor. Some let us do much more than others. And some hospitals have rules about how many students can give out medications and what students can do. I'm not sure where your rotations are matter that much when applying for jobs, unless you have the option to do a rotation on a unit where you might want to work later.
My peds rotation was at Mt. Washington and I really enjoyed it, but I obviously can't speak for the other sites. There were a lot of young nurses there who seemed happy to have students and willing to give you work to do.
We did psych at JHH. There are apparently 2 psych floors; one is geri-psych floor, which is kind of relaxed... a lot of depression and pain management and the other one is more intense with patients with schizophrenia and such. So I'd look into which floor you'd get and consider what you want out of your psych rotation. I've also heard Sheppard Pratt Towson is pretty nice.