Which clinical should I chose?

NoviceRN10 · Apr 8, 2008

I think I would start off with women's surgical care. Not sure what day of the week. I guess it depends on what your lecture schedule is.

Abishag · Apr 8, 2008

I am staring Nursing school in a few weeks and am reigstering for classes on Wednesday. We only have 1 clinical this semester (Technologies of Nursing) and I get to pick where I want my first clinical to be. Can someone please give me some insight as to what to expect with each place in the hospital, and which you would you recommend for a beginner? I tried to look up the places in the hospital online to get an idea, but could not find much information. I was thinking about the Neuroscience one because it sounded most interesting, but I'm not exactly sure what to expect there either. Here are the places....
-Neuroscience
-Women's Surgical Care
-Intermediate Medicine
Also, we have the choice to have the clinical on Tuesday or Thursday from 7-4. For those who have had experience with clinicals, you would recommend doing the clinical early in the week or later in the week? I plan on taking Wednesday as my day off.
THANKS SO MUCH FOR ANY INPUT!

I honestly have no idea since I'm not in NS yet but my suggestion was going to be to go with the one with the MOST work and MOST difficulty first. Its always easier to get a "Bruised ego" when you're new than when you've been doing it for several weeks and THEN you get thrown the curve ball. Also, try to get as much experience as possible right away. If you have clinicals that get checked off, go with the clinical that will get you the most "checks" (??) (remember this is coming from someone that has no idea what goes on in NS so if I'm making assumptions that are wrong please understand).

I would think based on the above that neuroscience would probably provide you with the most opportunity to work and with the most difficulty?? (I would think you may get patients that can not do anything for themselves in neuro so you probably could get thru a lot of scenarios quickly). JMO. Not sure if its the right one?? :bugeyes:

Am I sounding confusing?? It made sense in my head... :lol2:

ffweste · Apr 8, 2008

I am really not sure - given my field of interest, I would suggest Women's Surgical Care. But your decision should depend on what you think may interest you when you graduate.

If it was me, I would choose Tuesday - I never really had a choice in the days, but I would think earlier in the week, especially with Wednesday off would be better for me.

FLAtoNYC · Apr 8, 2008

I would suggest going with the intermediate medicine. What you learn on the floor is most likely to coorelate with what you will be learning in your lectures and actually seeing things in person will help you a great deal wiht your exams. Good luck and let us know what you chose.

NurseJeanB · Apr 8, 2008

Okay I don't know which one you should pick, but if you have a choice in days, I would pick the days that you don't have classes. For our first on site clinicals we had a choice and many people wanted to squeeze clinicals and classes in together on the same days so that they had more days off, but these people found it was very hard to go from an early morning clinical straight into a class and take midterms. The whole class average went down. At first I felt like I got the short end of the stick because I ended up having clinicals on days opposite my classes, but I quickly discovered it worked out better. Good luck to you.

casi, ASN, RN · Apr 8, 2008

I personally would pick what I'm most interested in.

CT Pixie, BSN, RN · Apr 8, 2008

Which of them jumped out at you and you thought "humm bet that would be interesting!"

Do you have a specialty you are thinking about? If so, do any of those choices corrolate with your chosen specialty? Take that one.

As for which day/time, I'd pick a day that I had no classes or anything else going on.

If it were me, personally, I'd take women's health since I am very interested in OB/GYN and NICU. I'd stay away from neuro since any talk of brains and skull contents gives me a headache (seriously :lol2: ) I know that neuro isn't JUST the brain but that word always tends to come up in neuro lectures :rolleyes: