Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Fall Semester~ Get to work!


Fall semester is the back end of our nursing program. It essentially takes the entire nursing program and puts what we learned into action. We are put back into the community in public health settings, psychiatric inpatient and outpatient settings, management and preceptorship nursing practicum, essentially where the whole thing ends (the icing on the cake of nursing school).

I picked a community health site that appealed to my sense of stepping outside my comfort zone. It is a transitional homeless shelter program.

My psych clinical site is a locked 16 bed facility. Patients are voluntarily admitted, or admitted on legal holds. Some are on conservatorships. It is a whole different level of theory and clinical that is bent more on service and safety.

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