Where do you go for field trips?

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I'm looking for ideas where you go and where you like best for field trips.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,

Sandy

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I'm looking for ideas where you go and where you like best for field trips.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,

Sandy

I hope that I don't sound dense but field trips for who or what??? Is this for kids? SG

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Specializes in LDRP.

i was going to say that the last field trip i went on was to the pumpkin patch wiht my son's preschool class.

i have never even heard of a nursing school field trip. if we ever actually went on a field trip here (not gonna happen) we'd have to write a 20 page paper about it, lol

love, rose

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One memorable one that I went on was at the county morgue. (but we didn't really call it a 'field trip', but more of a tour) And yes we did have to write a paper about it.

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I didn't get to go to a morgue but did go to a funeral home, a cardiac rehab and dialysis center. One class even went to a exhibit called Body Worlds...

http://www.bodyworlds.com/en/pages/home.asp

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Specializes in School, Camp, Hospice, Critical Care.

We did a funeral home! It was fascinating. The director instructed us on how death certificates are filled out (nurses can pronounce in NH for most hospital deaths), when the ME needs to be consulted, and talked a lot about how they prefered to see post-mortem care done vs what the school was teaching us (his preference was "less is more"--that they really would rather do nearly everything themselves). Also talked a lot about dealing with families in crisis. Got a tour and were able to see the crematorium. We even got goody bags with info on cremation and nail files!

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Specializes in NICU.

We call those clinical experiences, but field trip sounds so much more fun!! :chuckle

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Yeah, does clinical count?

I'm so excited - next semester for our pysc clinical, we get to go to the state mental hospital for two days in a row. (We will usually have a clinical at a local site one day a week, but this is like a "special" week.) This place is so far away and our clinicals are 7-7 both days so most people just get a hotel room nearby for the night. It kinda reminds me of high school band trips...at least that's how I picture it, but I KNOW it won't really be like that. I'm thinking of it as one big fun nursing sleepover - right. :rolleyes:

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Specializes in Cath Lab, OR, CPHN/SN, ER.

We went to a dialysis center this semester. It was fun, except having to be there around 0530 to watch the first round patients. We watched the tech hook up the patient, felt the thrill and listened to the bruits, and toured the water treatment room. Very interesting. And we got a free stress relief ball out of the deal (was shaped like a kidney, right with arteries and urterers!). -Andrea

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We went on a "field trip" today! Instead of clinicals, our whole class went to a conference on "Religious Views on Death, Dying and the Afterlife" It was a long day and some of the speakers were excellent, some weren't. Overall, it was a very good experience. We heard speakers from the following faiths: Hispanic Evangelistic, Catholic, Protestant, Hindu, Muslim, Christian Scientist and Judaism. So far, we haven't been asked to write a paper about it, but I'm sure they'll have us write something in our clinical journal.

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Thanks for the answers so far. Sounds like these trips are called by many names and some have been very interesting for everyone.

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Thanks for the answers so far. Sounds like these trips are called by many names and some have been very interesting for everyone.

And we got to pick--1 student to 1 observation for 1 day.

But I'll have done 5 observations by the end of term:

Cardiac Cath Lab (loved that!)

OR (loved that!)

Diabetic Ed, then follow my clinical instructor around (okay...)

I will be doing:

Ostomy/Wound Care

TCU

I did sign up for ER, but that fell through.

Other options were: Dialysis Center; AIDs clinic; student health service.

(maybe some others, those are the only ones I remember off hand.)

NurseFirst

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