Tomorrow is the first day of my last college nursing class- Patient Care Management Practicum. (for a while anyway.) This will be our 5th orientation, 6th if you count general nursing program orientation. We will start the day off with a comprehensive HESI exam at 0830. That will likely last about 2 to 2.5 hours. …
Nursing
Preceptor drama
I’ve had some trouble getting in touch with my preceptor for practicum. The story is this… I received her on Thursday and called the educator of the floor that I was given as a contact. We decided on a start day, March 14th and then she sent my preceptor and I the same email with …
Todays update
Feeling really stressed today. Pressing Family issue. Got my preceptors name and her corporate email address and I know my start date will be March 14th. I can’t get any other information. I guess I will have to email her to work out more of a schedule. I ended up with a B …
HESI EXAM
Todays HESI exam went very very well. It was not an easy test by any means. There was nothing that just jumped out at you as the correct answer with the exception of two questions out of 110 questions. This test required an enormous amount of critical thinking and I really felt like I did …
News!
I received my practicum assignment today! I only received the name of the educator for the floor so I have to wait for my actual preceptors name but I know that I will be on a Cardiovascular surgery floor. (Step down, Maybe?) I am pleased that I got my first choice though. I am feeling …
Last days of clinical
My last two days of clinical were this past week. Monday was my last clinical on the CHF/ Pulmonary Edema floor and Wednesday was my last mental health day. Monday went okay. The instructor ran it like practicum and I took a single nurse and her team. The day seemed really short but more like …
Snot is My Life
With a title like that I bet you all thought this might be an RT related entry. It isn’t although that would be a great title if I wrote an RT blog. 🙂 I went to clinical sick this week. I had a sore throat that came on Saturday afternoon and stayed through Sunday. I …
Looking toward the future
It was brought to my attention that I will be done with nursing school in 11 weeks. Wow, where did the time go? Last May, I looked at my long road ahead and it seemed like an eternity then. The many months of reading, studying, testing and clinicals seemed to drag in forever yet going …
Mental health day 1
I have to say that right now that I am so tired and reading about the neuro system is not coming easy today. I am sitting at Ford getting my car services and attempting to read and I don’t think any of it is going to stick right now, so I put the book away. …
Sickle Cell disease
Pathophysiology: Sickle Cell disease is a genetic, autosomal recessive disorder that results in abnormalities of the globin genes of the hemoglobin molecule of the RBC’s The BbS gene is the gene and it is inherited in people of African decent and to a much lesser extent from the middle east and the Mediterranean. This gene …