The Clinical Instructor
Hello. Welcome to missy-nurse.blogspot.com where I rant and dump my thoughts working as a nurse. I would like to share with you an incident that occur today. I have recently be given a role as a clinical instructor (CI) and oh boy i find myself asking my past self you idiot, why did you volunteer to be this role? If you don't know what actually a CI does. Here's what our job entails: Clinical instructors supervise the clinical practice of students, newly recruited nurses and ancillary staff. They assist the nurse educators in the overall training of students and trainees. (source: https://www.nhcs.com.sg/patient-care/specialties-and-services/pages/nursing/clinical-instructor.aspx) When I was a student nurse, I was grateful to have had wonderful CIs from different places who have guided me amongst other teenagers who like me, landed in the nursing diploma course either because: A) they don't know what to do after they have graduated from secondary sch...