I was busy in the emergency room Right away this morning when I got to work. Registration was starting at 7am and it was five til and I had two nebs and an arterial line to put in. What is a girl to do? I started the two treatments and while I was waiting for …
Clinicals
Clinical Catch up
Wow, I haven’t said much on this blog since my exam. I don’t recall if I said I did poorly on it or not. Well, I did according to nursing school standards my score is failing. (76). I am ashamed an nervous about the rest of the exams.(2) My last day of clinical was kind …
Not so good
I essentially failed my last exam. The grades came out today. What is a “C” for normal college students is an F for nursing students. (anything below at 77% is an F.) I got a 74.67%. That leaves my average as a B. If I do very well on the other exams and my other …
Clinical Update Day 7
Clinical Day 7 was a pretty busy one for me. I had two patients with similar stuff going on but they were very different and they kept me busy all day. And we didn’t even give medications! This coming week we will. I had done all my nursing diagnosis for the one more needy patient …
Clinical update – Day 7
This week was my 7th patient clinical day. This was the first week that we took two patients. I felt ready to do that. I picked two what I thought to be interesting patients. they were in rooms next to each other and of different age groups. Both with abdominal pain diagnosis but for different …
Update -clinical day 5
Not a great day. My head really wasn’t in it this morning. I had my ass in a snit about something entirely unrelated. I woke up this morning and for whatever reason it was eating at me. This situation has since been resolved. My patient today was difficult. Wasn’t wanting me to do anything to …
Clincial update – clinical Day 4
My forth patient clinical day was pretty low key. My patient was fairly easy. No foley, no PCA, no IV fluids. I didn’t know this when I picked him. He had a foley, a PCA and IV crytalloids running when I chose him. He had an interesting case and one that I thought would have …
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, …