It’s been a long couple of days. On Wednesday, we had our first exam. We had to be on West Campus (35-40 minutes away at that time of morning) and in our seats by 0650. Ria arrived at my house at 0520 and Jennifer Ria and I left my house at 0530. We arrived …
check off
Booted from Lab –oops!
Went into the lab today with Ria to practice for the check offs tomorrow. It will either be Central Venous Catheter Dressing change (with Cardiac assessment) or Female Catherization with abdominal assessment. (We get to flip a coin to see what we have to do so need to be prepared for both.) I got booted …
First Check off.
Today was a bit of a tough day. I spent 3 hours in the nursing lab yesterday (Sunday) preparing for this wound dressing change. It was a wet to dry packed wound dressing change -a sterile procedure. I went over and over the procedure and the critical elements. We have a little acronym to help …
Day three – lab orientation
Today was lab orientation. We went over the entire lab manuel and got loads more information thrown at us. My brain is on serious overload right now. We were introduced to the labs today. There are several “patient rooms” that are set up like old wards with 4 patients to a room. One had a …