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Foresthoney t1_jalturx wrote

Reply to comment by Allthefeels95 in New Hampshire ordered to phase out practice of keeping psychiatric patients in emergency rooms by greenhousecrtv

It was a semester whose clinicals were also split with maternity and unlike med surg 1 & 2 you didn't get to do much in the clinical portion; all I really did was take part in groups on the milieu and attend the team meeting. I also constantly heard that you should do at least one year in med surg before you think of specializing. I have my BSN so maybe it's different but gerontology was with community health clinical for us and pediatrics also had a clinical rotation.

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Allthefeels95 t1_jam8ujz wrote

The splitting is accurate in my experience too, though it’s still more than I’ve gotten for peds and gerontology. In my program we get either peds or maternity, not both, and the community health “clinical” was us packing medical equipment in a warehouse… Was med surg 2 considered high acuity? I’m in a BSN program as well. I definitely have my gripes with it, but I graduate this year so it’s almost over.

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Foresthoney t1_jan6i7y wrote

I did home health for my community health rotation and then my med surg 2 clinical was with a group of us for 1/2 the semester and then a preceptorship for the 2nd half, which was great because I was able to set a goal (carry a full assignment) and I was 1:1 with an experienced RN. A lot of the people in my program preferred to travel up to Dartmouth for their clinicals but I found I had better experiences at the smaller community hospitals.

Edit to say that my med surg one was on a skilled unit in a nursing home.

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