tips for sophmore going into clinicals

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i start my first clinical in a couple of months and am already freaking out! i just bought a ipaq for school and am hoping that will help! i have no idea of what i am going into or what to expect. any tips or suggestions?! thanks! :)

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What area do you start in????

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What area do you start in????

well as far as the hospital that we are assigned too, i dont know yet. somewhere in nw indiana. and i dont even know what type of work i will be doing, prolly mostly cna stuff? i think.

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What kind of a floor will you be on? We started out on a med-surg floor and practiced basic skills- transfers, vital signs, bed baths, etc. It was mostly CNA skills. I'm in a 4-yr BSN program. Clinicals didn't really become interesting until the junior year. I would suggest taking time to relax right now. You'll be busy before you know it. The school should inform you of any supplies you will need.

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Our first clinicals started with taking vital signs, giving bed baths, and doing basic assessments. We started in Long Term Care and moved to OB and then Med-surg, ED, ICU, Home Health/Hospice and so on. Clinicals got really challenging and interesting in the last 2 semesters, really, when we were expected to take a bigger load of more complicated patients and handle their various complicated pathophysiological problems.

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