Dec 22 2008
Student Nurse, Part Ten: the long and winding road - via BC Transit.
Student Nurse is an amalgam of several nursing school classmates experiences during their time of studies together. It is presented in a journal format; the writer of the journal is fictional, but the experiences are all real.
Friday, November 20th, 2008,
On of our head instructors handed out our practicum assignment locations today; I wasn’t able to get my first choice of practicum location. This is a big deal for me because of location. in fact I got one that will make my commute almost three hours long - one way! To get to it on the North shore, I will have to take the West Coast express Train, the seabus, and then a bus up the hill to the facility. That is a lot of transfers to make there and back everyday. The instructor didn’t even consider my request for re-asignment. Gee, thanks. Even though I know people in the class who live closer to that North Shore location they were not assigned there. It makes no sense. Why didn’t they make the location requests by postal code or something? It just doesn’t make sense. It’s not so great to have an instructor that doesn’t seem to have any empathy or understanding. It’s like 50 km from my house - I don’t even have a car. I used to but not anymore. Why not? i had to sell it in order to qualify to get a student loan. Yes that is definitely ironic. i don’t even want to get started on how the Government expects you to cash in all of your RSPs before you can qualify for a student loan.
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