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 …
Health and Education
Today in lab.
Today I was able to get three check off’s done. One Major (NT suctioning/ Trach care) and two learning assistant check offs (Administering Eye/Ear drops and Rectal/Vaginal suppositories and transferring a patient with a lift.) I was not nervous today about the check off. For the major check off you only had to do one …
Lab time today
Did some Lab time with Ria today. She’s so funny. She’s very real. She doesn’t give a shit what people think of her. We practiced the NT suctioning and the trach care with trach suctioning. She went over Ear drop/ Eye drops/ anal and vaginal suppositories. I think we actually have to jam a suppository …
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 …
Keeping a Sterile Field
I had always thought that not touching something that is sterile keeps it sterile. Apparently even placing your hand or arm above a sterile field (unless your sterile) contaminates the field. I never knew that. I found this out when practicing packing a wound in class yesterday. I found some info to back this up. …
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 …
Second Day –Orientation Day 2
Today was less overwhelming than yesterday. I brought my own computer today and actually used it instead of the school laptops. And that worked out really well. We spent most of the morning on learned how to use the online library of my college. The showed us how to access the books, E books, data …
First Day- Orientation day 1
Today was my first day of nursing school. I’m in an accelerated course basically putting 2 years of nursing school into one. We had so much information thrown at us today during the nearly 8 hours we were there. We did the syllabus for our Transition into professional nursing course. It was very detailed and …
Climb on board!
In just a few days I am going to embark on a journey through an accelerated nursing course which will hopefully yield another associates degree and the RN after my name and a better future for my husband and I.