What to do when your placement ‘doesn’t fit’
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What to do when your placement ‘doesn’t fit’

Lynne Pearce Health journalist

Students may not always want their allocated clinical placement. So can you refuse it, or ask to change if things go wrong?

You have been offered a practice placement that you are not keen on, or that is not working out for you. Can you ask for an alternative – and, if so, what might the consequences be? And what should nursing students expect from their placements?

Nursing Standard. 38, 6, 41-42. doi: 10.7748/ns.38.6.41.s20

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