Hello I am a surg tech student in my 2nd semester. Today my class did our lab finals and we all barely passed. Our instructor told us she is not comfortable sending us to clinicals and frankly none of us feel comfortable going either, I don't know what to do. That was our last lab day before summer break and after summer break we start our clinicals. The problem is as a class we are bad on time, not confident, still unable to anticipate what our surgeon needs. Many things as a whole we need to work on. I may be able to come up to the lab during summer break but that mostly depends on the instructors availability. I feel like we struggle so bad because we have 1 lab day a week and there are 10 of us so there so one week some people get to go and some don't and skip a week of practicing a set up. We have amazing teachers so I really think the biggest issue is only having one lab day. Either way I am extremely stressed because I do not know how I can improve without consistent practice but we are now on summer break.
Also I can't work right now because it is hard to find a sitter for my son and daycare here is insanely expensive. By the time I graduate he will be old enough to start pre-k so that won't be an issue then. So I can't go get a job in sterile processing or as a PA in the mean time to learn.