I recently, in the last 4 months, started working in the local jail infirmary as a nurse. My previous experience as a nurse has been mostly hospital but recently some nursing home experiences. Nursing is a rewarding but sometimes thankless and stressful profession. In the hospital, nursing is all about Care planning, coordination of care …
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 …
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. …
I went to my mental health make up day today. Even though I am very interested in mental health disorders I was less than enthused to be going there today. I don’t know if it was because its almost the end of semester and I’ve had some time off where I did nothing nursing. Or …
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 …
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 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 …