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 …
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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 …
Completed
Both this weeks and next weeks assignments for school are done and turned in. The first assignment was writing 4 NCLEX -RN style questions to turn in. They had to be good so I hope they are. I would post them but someone might use them and then there might be trouble. The second assignment …
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 …