Every professor acts like ending up in a nursing home is a career failure. We spend weeks on pediatrics but barely touch on gerontology. Why is long-term care so stigmatized in academia?
Half my cohort got jobs as ER or ICU techs, and I'm stuck here in a long-term care facility. I feel like all I do is change briefs, feed residents, and document vitals. Is this actually building clinical skills that will help me when I become an RN, or am I just wasting my time doing grunt work?
I start my 12-hour clinical shifts tomorrow morning. Honestly, I'm already an anxious mess. What are the unwritten rules of a nursing home? I don't want to be that annoying student that the regular staff hates
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