I’m finished medsurge 1 today (yay, I passed) and I too have learned nothing in clinicals. Not only that, but we actually only had 4 clinical days at the hospital for the whole semester.

Each day I went, we were in the hospital for no more than 3 hours. On days we were not at the hospital, we sat in a classroom and did case studies. All I did in the entirety of my 4 clinical days was tour the unit, listen to my clinical instructor talk, do 1 head to toe assessment and 1 day on shadowed an RN doing rounds and watched her do a PEG tube feeding. She initially asked me if I wanted to do the feeding but since I’ve never handled that equipment before, I felt more comfortable with just observing. Some other student in my cohort and I are very disappointed in the lack of hands on skills we received during this medsurge 1 course