We had our first exam this morning. This test was no joke. Some of my classmates said this test was hard. One was even said to be “eating away her depression” at Johnny Rockets. My friend 95% of the time does a few points higher than me on many of our exams. I don’t think …
Marie
Clinical update: Clinical Day 3
Clinical update: 3rd clinical day. This day was pretty good too. There even earlier, prepared, checked on the patient in their room, check on the am labs (none), and then sat down in pre conference. I reported off my patient and then left pre conference to start the day This week was supposed to be …
Clinical Update -2nd clinical day.
Wow haven’t been over here writing in this blog for a while now. Not since my disastrous start to my first clinical day! My second clinical day, was great. I brought my A game, was on time (early even), prepared and ready to go. My patient was one with a ventral hernia. The patient was …
Bad first day
Ever find yourself on mental overload? That was me this week- total mental overload. I worked all weekend and was able to get some “learning questions done” while at work on diabetes. I got 10 of the questions done In a couple of hours. Great, ahead of schedule. And yes I literally scheduled my week, …
Adult health hospital orientation
This week has been kind of stressful for me. I had Clinical hospital orientation last Tuesday. We spent a lot of time sitting in various conference rooms for 8 hours listening to the enormous list of expectations they are placing upon us. When I say enormous I mean ENORMOUS, I don’t exaggerate. I found myself …
School is open!
The new semester of nursing school has started. This semester is until Dec 14. We had a long and for the most part boring Adult Health orientation. We did have a fun time showing the teacher our assessment skills on each other and clowning around with the manikins. (I got some fun pics) We also …
Last Day
Today was the last test and the last day of the semester for nursing school. I did okay on the achievement test and will end up with an 87.18in Maternal Child Health. Not too shabby So yay! I survived the first semester of nursing school!! I am very proud of myself. We lost one classmate …
Exam 2
So I took that exam 2 for Maternal Child Health exam today. It was heinous! Worst test I’ve taken in recent memory. I know that I messed up on the acyanotic heart defects. However someone gave me a little tip for the CYANOTIC heart defects. The Three T’s for cyanotic: Tetrology of Fallot, Truncus …
Fluid Maintance Pediatric
To figure out fluid maintenance for 24 hours time take the childs weight in Kg and : For the first 10kg: 100ml/kg For the second 10kg: 50ml/kg For remaining kg: 20ml/kg Add total ml’s to calculate total fluid needed for 24 hours. Divide by 24 to calculate ml/hr rate. Example 25kg child 10kg x 100ml …
Clinical day 6
Today was the last day of clinical for the semester. I was at Arnold Palmer on Tower 6. I had a 2 year old patient with failure to thrive. Cute kid. The day was simple and easy. The classmates and I went over to Legends Bar and Grill for lunch. That was fun. I have …