Personal Narrative: My Clinical Practicum Site

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My clinical Practicum site for this semester is St. Joseph’s hospital, Tampa. The previous semester I worked with a very supportive preceptor and crew at the USF, this semester was not much different. I have a well experienced clinical educator, who is highly reliable and a well-behaved enthusiastic group of students. I have spent 41 hours so far at my clinical site with my preceptor and the students. Our day starts at 6.30 am, taking students to different departments/floors. We usually have a huddle discussing the plan for the day prior to dispersing the students to different floors. We (myself and the preceptor) will make the rounds to each floor to check on each student throughout the day. We usually ask questions to students on our

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