I totally forgot about the main thing I really wanted to touch on...
Schedule all of your clinical time early
My program doesn't allow students to begin ride time before hospital clinicals are completely finished. I am way behind where I wanted to be, mostly because it took more time than I was expecting to talk to the people I needed to and schedule time in the departments that I needed too as well.
I just assumed it was going to be as smooth for me to schedule time in the Cath Lab, L and D, ICU, and Pysch as it was for me to schedule time in the ED.
I was very wrong. It sometimes took me weeks to get in touch with those I needed to speak with, so ultimately I had weeks that were lost. Had I begun to schedule my time back in July, then I'm sure things would've been sorted out early. But it took me a 6 weeks to finally get into the ICU, and I ended up having to schedule my L and D time at another hospital.
Plan ahead....like...way ahead.
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