Today was my 3rd day of clinicals for the semester. We only have 4 clinicals this semester because we will start practicum after Spring Break. Today I got to go to the ER for the 1st time. The girls that had went the last 2 weeks said it was boring & a long day for them...so I was a little worried. When I got down there it was a little slow going & I thought...this is going to be a long day. But, by 10:00 it was really busy & stayed that way the rest of the day. I got to see a lot of different things. This is not somewhere I would want to be everyday, but I did enjoy the fast pace & all the different cases that came in.
I have had a lot of people ask me where I plan to work when I graduate....well I am really not sure. When I started the nursing program my goal was to someday work weekends at the NICU in a bigger city. I wanted to start out in Labor & Delivery and when my kids got a little older try to branch out to bigger things. Well, the only problem with that is most hospitals in the area consider OB a speciality field & you can't work on a speciality unit until you have so many years experience after you graduate. So I am still up in the air about where I want to work & what field I would like to go into. I am not a huge fan of medical surgery, but everyone tells me this is where I will get the most experience right after graduation. I know for sure I do not want to work surgery! I guess everything else is still up in the air...but I have 3 more months of school!
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