The Second Shift
Dismissed: The Nursing Instructor on a Unit That Is Not Hers: E#20
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It is 7 AM on a busy med-surg unit, right in the middle of shift change, when a clinical instructor walks in with eight nursing students on their first day of the semester. The charge nurse looks up from the assignment board with three admissions coming in, asking her to keep the students out of the way. By 0945, a careful student named Hannah is still working through her 0900 med pass, checking…