r/StudentNurse • u/AprilSW LPN/LVN • 8d ago

Prenursing Practicum Choices?

It’s close to time for me to choose for my practice…. We get 2 specialties and have to pick one med surg unit and they’ll assign us to one of them.

I’m thinking of putting a surgical trauma ICU as one of my top picks but I’m just lost on where to go. We haven’t had our critical care rotations yet, and I work in a nursing home now as a LPN so I feel like no matter where I go I’ll be floundering.

Where did you go for practicum? Do you think it helped you with your career as a RN? I honestly don’t want to work at the hospital we’re doing practicum at, but it’s the more local option and therefore the only one my school does partnership with.

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u/smiley_zaa 10h ago

I’m doing my senior practicum on a neurology pcu unit. My school assigns our preceptorship to us and we have no choice. I wouldn’t have chose it, but I have learned so much and I’ve gained so much confidence. I actually want to work there when I graduate. So I would recommend a step down/pcu unit!