ALMOST...

Today's our last day of clinicals...for real this time. I'm seriously glad today's our last day of nursing school clinicals. Don't get me wrong, you couldn't be a nurse without the clinical experiences, but it gets to the point where you're just "free labor." Those classmates of mine whom work, like I do, feel the squeeze when we're doing clinicals on a unit and we know good and well that we could be getting paid to basically be doing the exact same thing. Now, I am all for building up rapport etc, but why would you choose to work for free at something that someone else is perfectly willing to pay you for ??? Ya...that creates a quandry about this last quarter of nursing school. They're trying to "teach" me how to "manage" multiple patients. Um ya, I've been doing that since January of 2005...Thanks to my experiences in the ER. I guess that's why I'm working there, because I'd rather work there for free "managing patients" than be doing "clinicals" supposedly "learning how to manage patients." Oy veh...we can do anything if we put our minds to it. Hmmm, only 4 more hours to go....whoo...calgon take me away. The end is so near I can almost taste it.