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 …
Clinicals
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 …
2nd clinical day- APH
My clinical on Tuesday was good. I had a pretty simple patient who was there for vomiting and diarrhea. A baby. All I pretty much did all day was do vitals, weigh diapers, change a bed sheet, pain checks, did q2 IV site checks and hung some Rocephin (200mg delivered over 30 minutes) Cute kid …
3rd and final day of OB clinical
Yesterday was my 3rd and final day in the OB clinical. Today I followed a patient from C-section, through recovery and back to the unit and I also took care of her baby. I was able to watch the c-section because I wasn’t with the baby nurse. I was with the circulating nurse so I …
2nd Day of Clinical
Today was a great day in clinical. I was assigned to a postpartum nurse and we had three patients. Two in the beginning then we added one when we were discharging one of the other. I was able to two two head to toe assessments of newborns and one head to toe assessment on a …