Clinical update: 3rd clinical day. This day was pretty good too. There even earlier, prepared, checked on the patient in their room, check on the am labs (none), and then sat down in pre conference. I reported off my patient and then left pre conference to start the day This week was supposed to be …
Month: September 2011
Clinical Update -2nd clinical day.
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 …
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 …