😏 Clinical Misconceptions

When I begin the semester I was so excited about starting clinical but I was a nervous wreck. I was scared and nervous because I didn't know what to expect or what was going to be expected of me. I just wanted to be great, learn, and do well while in my clinical's. When I began to speak with nurses who had Med/Surg clinical's they would explain that Med/Surg is going to be hard. I was told it would be the hardest, most difficult clinical in my life. That Med/Surg patient's are not pleasant, they give a lot of push back and don't want to be compliant at all. On top of that the nurses and doctor's would also be a lot to handle. I was basically told many don't survive in the Med/Surg clinical's but the good thing about it is that it teaches you structure and organization. I find that it can be challenging in the Med/Surg clinical but it's not as horrifying as the nurses portray it to be. I think it's all about the nurse or nursing students preference of the type of patient or nursing area they are interested in. I personally enjoy the Med/Surg clinical because I have had experience before so I know how to be with my patient's. I believe it's a misconception about Med/Surg, the horrible clinical site can be the Psych clinical or the Maternity clinical. It's just about what that nursing individual's likes, interest are, and comfort level during their experience's in the clinical setting's. I just say Don't be afraid of new adventure's and experience's, embrace them fully and whole-heartedly. It's good to get advice and a head's up of what may be to come but you must take some thing's and not apply everything to your experience. We are all different with different mindsets and feeling's, so how one may feel is not how you may feel. Be you and great things will happen. Signed the happy, nervous, open, adventurous nurse to be. 💋