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 …
Clinical
First exam in Maternal Child done
First Exam in Maternal child health is done!! I didn’t think it was murder like some of my classmates say but it was difficult. I think I did alright though. The grades have not been posted yet. I did make the mistake of rounding up on a gtts/min calculation but whatever. I got the other …
2nd Day of Clinical
Today was a great day in clinical. I was assigned to a postpartum nurse and we had three patients. Two in the beginning then we added one when we were discharging one of the other. I was able to two two head to toe assessments of newborns and one head to toe assessment on a …
First Day of Clinical
My first day of clinical was mostly uneventful. I was assigned to OB triage and had one patient. I helped out with giving a baby an IM injection of the Hep B vaccine right in it’s little Vastus lateralis which is one of the meatier parts on a newborn. I watched also an assessment …