Discrepancy: What I Learned In School

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Thank you for your well informed post. According to Masters (2017), there will be role discrepancy when there is a disconnection from what we have learned in school to what we actually face in a real life situation. This is described as reality shock. I have experienced this when I worked as an volunteer in the hospital after my graduation. It seemed that I knew nothing on the first day of my voluntary job. I found that the practices in the reality setting deviated from that I had learned from the school. For example, there was one time that I followed a nurse to administer medication to a patient, the nurse only told the patient the name and the type of the medication without explaining the possible side effect to the patient. I learned from