whoRyou Posted March 21, 2015 Share Posted March 21, 2015 I am assuming you all have had those sleepless nights right before starting clinicals or your first day at work. So, what are some of your worst nightmares? Did any of them come true? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will352ns Posted March 21, 2015 Share Posted March 21, 2015 I just hoped I didn't get a Delta Bravo as a preceptor. So far so good.....only had one and he wasn't that bad...just thought he was "Gods Gift to Medicine." I know a good provider when I see one...this guy wasn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UGoLong Posted March 21, 2015 Share Posted March 21, 2015 While people can act towards you anyway they want to, no one surrenders their dignity unless they agree to do so. Be professional, be teachable, learn what there is to be learned (it ain't all about medicine!), and remember you're only there for a month (or whatever it is at your school). I loved rotations; I wish there was a way to do it for a career! You see so much: patients, diseases, different preceptors, different offices, different styles, days, night, one SP vs many, etc. Don't expect this to be a nightmare; you can do a month of almost anything standing on your head. Go get 'em! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PACdan Posted March 21, 2015 Share Posted March 21, 2015 I just hoped I didn't get a Delta Bravo as a preceptor. So far so good.....only had one and he wasn't that bad...just thought he was "Gods Gift to Medicine." I know a good provider when I see one...this guy wasn't. I had to look that up. I like it. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sk732 Posted March 23, 2015 Share Posted March 23, 2015 I have a different nick name for those sorts of folks - "Fecal cephalic". All comes out the same in the wash. My trauma rotation had my first night on call start with a disaster alert due to a plane crashing into an apartment building 12 blocks away...the Code Orange went off literally during my first bathroom break of the day at 1700 (I'd been on since 0700)... SK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kayakr Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 I thought clinicals would be much more malignant than they were, unless for some reason I was just lucky. You'll be fine on rotations. You'll be pimped with some questions, but nobody is going to expect you to be an expert already. And if they do - they're just being jerks or are unrealistic. I dreamed a lot about work nightmares in my first year, but it gets better. Everyone has worries. It's a high stress sort of job, but it can be survivable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator True Anomaly Posted April 3, 2015 Moderator Share Posted April 3, 2015 My nightmare would be being knocked unconscious, dragged to Florida and forced to work in one of the many cash-only "pain clinics" highlighted in the OxyContin Express documentary to earn my escape back home Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medic25 Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 I have a different nick name for those sorts of folks - "Fecal cephalic". All comes out the same in the wash. My trauma rotation had my first night on call start with a disaster alert due to a plane crashing into an apartment building 12 blocks away...the Code Orange went off literally during my first bathroom break of the day at 1700 (I'd been on since 0700)... SK I was on the second day of an internal medicine rotation on 9/11. The hospital I was rotating at was advised to prepare for 100+ casualties, so we were sent down to the ED with our supervising resident to help dispo all of the patients (admit anyone immediately who needed admission, and send everyone else home). Once we cleared as many patients as possible, we set up every room to prepare for a trauma patient, and set up chairs, oxygen and nebulizer setups in the ambulance bay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boatswain2PA Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 That was a hell of a day. I was a bit busy myself a few hundred miles to the north of you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator EMEDPA Posted April 3, 2015 Moderator Share Posted April 3, 2015 I had an actual PA nightmare last night. (really). I showed up for a shift and had 2 new pa students waiting for me. both were 16 years old and starting their clinical year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmj11 Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 Oh . . . I thought you were saying this really happened, but you were saying the nightmare really occurred in your sleep. My nightmares are always me speaking to a huge conference audience and realizing that I'm in my underwear, or doing heart surgery alone in my underwear. Okay, where is Freud? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator EMEDPA Posted April 3, 2015 Moderator Share Posted April 3, 2015 if I woke up and found myself doing heart surgery I would be concerned about things other than my attire....and yes, I meant an actual nightmare while sleeping. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PACdan Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 I had an actual PA nightmare last night. (really). I showed up for a shift and had 2 new pa students waiting for me. both were 16 years old and starting their clinical year. Just start calling them "doogies". They won't even get the reference. ; ) Doogie Howser, PA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joelseff Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 I had an actual PA nightmare last night. (really). I showed up for a shift and had 2 new pa students waiting for me. both were 16 years old and starting their clinical year.:o Sent from my S5 Active...Like you care... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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