Today is my last day of freedom till July 22, 2011.
School officially starts tomorrow and I am going to be a busy busy busy person. I will have time for school and school. Yep that is about it.
My schedule:
Monday:
1130-1230 - New Testament
1400-1500 - Microbiology
1515-1615 - Advanced Writing/Critical Think
Tuesday:
0700-1900 - Clinical
Wednesday:
0745 -0945 - Nursing 202
1015- 1115 - Nursing 205
1130 -1230 - New Testament
1400-1500 - Microbiology
1515- 1615- Advanced Writing/Critical Think
Thursday:
Not sure what is going on with this day ???
Friday:
0745-0945 - Nursing 203
1400-1500 - Microbiology
1515-1615 - Advanced Writing/ Critical Think
Doesn't my week sound like loads of FUN? I think not, however, this semester I am learning all about OB and Peds, which is what I want to work in so I am hoping that I actually like this semester nursing classes.
Well more to come on what I actually learn.
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Monday, December 13, 2010
YAHOO...
I made it!!!
I have officially made it through my second semester of nursing school. I am no longer a freshman!!!
Classes were way harder this semester but I do believe I am pulling off all A's which is an achievement. I think my favorite class this semester was Bro. Atwood's Psychiatric nursing class. He is a very nice, funny, and reasonable teacher. I actually wanted to go to his class (unlike my other nursing classes).
Christmas is almost here!!!
I get to go home on Thursday... no homework for 2.5 weeks.
I have officially made it through my second semester of nursing school. I am no longer a freshman!!!
Classes were way harder this semester but I do believe I am pulling off all A's which is an achievement. I think my favorite class this semester was Bro. Atwood's Psychiatric nursing class. He is a very nice, funny, and reasonable teacher. I actually wanted to go to his class (unlike my other nursing classes).
Christmas is almost here!!!
I get to go home on Thursday... no homework for 2.5 weeks.
Monday, December 6, 2010
State Hospital South...
So State Hospital South wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. Most of the patients on my Unit seem with it, however when I read their chart I see how bad they really are. It is really interesting to see what some people suffer from. Sometimes I can 't even comprehend why they think that way. I hope that all of them get better and are able to go on and live normal and happy lives like the rest of us.
All in all it was a good experience but I most likely will never work as a psych nurse.
All in all it was a good experience but I most likely will never work as a psych nurse.
Monday, November 29, 2010
Almost done...
I made it through my most difficult nursing class, however, I did not make the grade that I wanted it. She is a great teacher and I learned a lot but her tests were the most ridiculous things I have ever taken in my entire life and some questions on her test made me think "where did that come from?". So my grade declined because of these crazy tests that I spent many hours studying for and many hours crying after because of my grade.
Clinicals are going well. I finished my last day of med/surg. YAHOO! I do not like taking care of older people. I want to work in pediatrics or neonatal. For my last three clinicals I get to go to State Hospital South in Blackfoot, which is a Psych hospital. I am a little scared. People with these kind of mental issues give me the heebee jeebees.
Only 2.5 weeks to go till the end of the semester
Only 9 more test to go.
Then I will no longer be a freshmen
I will be a Sophomore
Clinicals are going well. I finished my last day of med/surg. YAHOO! I do not like taking care of older people. I want to work in pediatrics or neonatal. For my last three clinicals I get to go to State Hospital South in Blackfoot, which is a Psych hospital. I am a little scared. People with these kind of mental issues give me the heebee jeebees.
Only 2.5 weeks to go till the end of the semester
Only 9 more test to go.
Then I will no longer be a freshmen
I will be a Sophomore
Saturday, November 13, 2010
AH...
It has almost been a month since I last wrote. Holy cow! Just so you know this post is going to be very jumpy. I am going to change from one subject to the other.
School is going well, I am offically done with one nursing class. I took the final today and actually got a decent grade. I was very very happy.
Now this is the teacher that has been causing every one grief with her tests. I swear no matter how hard I study for them and even if I memorized the power points word for word, I still wouldn't do well. and it frustrated me so much, so with much sadness I will be recieveing my first B+ in my entire life. :(
I have one last 5th floor clinical for this semester! I am so excited! I do not like 5th floor really at all. Mostly it is filled with old old sick people. I am not to fond of old old sick people. I would rather work on pediatrics or even with people more my age, not these 70+ year olds. After I am finished with this rotation I get to go to a Psych hospital. (not looking forward to this) perhaps because I have been tainted with all the media telling me these people are... well there isn't a word for it really. I am concerned...
Scenario is on friday! AH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am so very happy for Thanksgiving. I get to see my family. Then after that there is only 3 more weeks of school and then I am home for 3 weeks with no homework! YIPEE. I am so very sick of homework and tests. I take more tests in a week than most people take for one class over the whole semester.
My life is crazy!
School is going well, I am offically done with one nursing class. I took the final today and actually got a decent grade. I was very very happy.
Now this is the teacher that has been causing every one grief with her tests. I swear no matter how hard I study for them and even if I memorized the power points word for word, I still wouldn't do well. and it frustrated me so much, so with much sadness I will be recieveing my first B+ in my entire life. :(
I have one last 5th floor clinical for this semester! I am so excited! I do not like 5th floor really at all. Mostly it is filled with old old sick people. I am not to fond of old old sick people. I would rather work on pediatrics or even with people more my age, not these 70+ year olds. After I am finished with this rotation I get to go to a Psych hospital. (not looking forward to this) perhaps because I have been tainted with all the media telling me these people are... well there isn't a word for it really. I am concerned...
Scenario is on friday! AH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am so very happy for Thanksgiving. I get to see my family. Then after that there is only 3 more weeks of school and then I am home for 3 weeks with no homework! YIPEE. I am so very sick of homework and tests. I take more tests in a week than most people take for one class over the whole semester.
My life is crazy!
Monday, October 18, 2010
Long time...
Hey so it has been a couple of weeks since I last wrote... sorry about that.
Skills day:
So I participated in skills day on the 8 of October. I was hoping to get NG tube insertion, foley catheter insertion, something like that but not IV fluid stuff. Well guess which one I got. IV fluids. Now this skill isn't difficult at all, but I however, recived a not so great score because I forgot one thing... a right. In nursing we do this thing called the 5 rights: right patient, route, time, amout, and med. This 5 rights is supposed to be 3 times. I did the first two outside the room but I forgot to do the 3rd check, so I was docked big time (even though the patient wouldn't have gotten the wrong fluids). Ticks me off just a little bit!
So the whole skill goes like this: I walk into the room, introduce myself, check their name band, and wash my hands. Second I tell the patient that IV fluids are ordered, so I check the EMAR or MAR (medication administration record) against their wristband to make sure it matches, then I check the meds against it. If all are correct I can continue. Next thing I would do is to check the IV saline lock (which is just a fancy name for an IV line in the arm/hand that doesn't have fluids attached). I would flush the line to check for patency. I would then get my fluids and prime my tubing. (priming is filing the lines with the solution). If everything we well I would then attach the fluids to the IV in the hand/arm.
Now that skill doesn't seem difficult now does it, but let me tell you it gets a whole lot harder when a person in a white coat is watches, when you know you are being graded and when it is timed. I just got so flustered that I forgot one thing and it was killer on my grade. Grrr....
OR:
The OR is awesome!!!!I quite enjoy it.
I have had the opportunity to watch hernia repairs, cholecystectomys, appendix removal, hysterectomies with bilateral salipingoopherectomy(ovaries and tubes removed). Awesome! I also had the opportunity to scrub in and help with one the hysterectomies. The one down side to OR is that my back tends to hurt a lot.
Another thing that interests me is being a Nurse Anesthetist. I find that being anesthetist would be a good job. I wouldn't mind being that, however, it is a lot more schooling.
School:
School is going well, most of the classes aren't too hard. I am pulling decent grades. I may not receive all A's this semester. The one class has some of the most ridiculous tests I could go insane. I learn a lot in her class but her tests really don't have much to do with what we learned.
Still no man in my life... no like I time for one anyway.
Skills day:
So I participated in skills day on the 8 of October. I was hoping to get NG tube insertion, foley catheter insertion, something like that but not IV fluid stuff. Well guess which one I got. IV fluids. Now this skill isn't difficult at all, but I however, recived a not so great score because I forgot one thing... a right. In nursing we do this thing called the 5 rights: right patient, route, time, amout, and med. This 5 rights is supposed to be 3 times. I did the first two outside the room but I forgot to do the 3rd check, so I was docked big time (even though the patient wouldn't have gotten the wrong fluids). Ticks me off just a little bit!
So the whole skill goes like this: I walk into the room, introduce myself, check their name band, and wash my hands. Second I tell the patient that IV fluids are ordered, so I check the EMAR or MAR (medication administration record) against their wristband to make sure it matches, then I check the meds against it. If all are correct I can continue. Next thing I would do is to check the IV saline lock (which is just a fancy name for an IV line in the arm/hand that doesn't have fluids attached). I would flush the line to check for patency. I would then get my fluids and prime my tubing. (priming is filing the lines with the solution). If everything we well I would then attach the fluids to the IV in the hand/arm.
Now that skill doesn't seem difficult now does it, but let me tell you it gets a whole lot harder when a person in a white coat is watches, when you know you are being graded and when it is timed. I just got so flustered that I forgot one thing and it was killer on my grade. Grrr....
OR:
The OR is awesome!!!!I quite enjoy it.
I have had the opportunity to watch hernia repairs, cholecystectomys, appendix removal, hysterectomies with bilateral salipingoopherectomy(ovaries and tubes removed). Awesome! I also had the opportunity to scrub in and help with one the hysterectomies. The one down side to OR is that my back tends to hurt a lot.
Another thing that interests me is being a Nurse Anesthetist. I find that being anesthetist would be a good job. I wouldn't mind being that, however, it is a lot more schooling.
School:
School is going well, most of the classes aren't too hard. I am pulling decent grades. I may not receive all A's this semester. The one class has some of the most ridiculous tests I could go insane. I learn a lot in her class but her tests really don't have much to do with what we learned.
Still no man in my life... no like I time for one anyway.
Saturday, October 2, 2010
Resource Nurse...
The hospital that I do my clinicals at has a Resource Nurse, and this nurse has more training than the average nurse, they are basically just go from floor to floor checking to see if anyone needs any help and I got to spend the day with him.
We started off the day checking every floor to make sure things we going as expected for 0730 in the morning. We were in the ICU when the Code Blue rang out and guess what.... the resource nurse goes to code blues. So off we rushed down to the ER. Now a resource nurse does whatever is needed when a code is called (ie. start lines, chest compressions, give meds...) and because he had me with him, I was able to participate in the code. I performed chest compression on the man. Holy cow! that makes a person really tired really fast. I felt such a rush of adrenline. It was intense. However, once it was over I was shaking so bad. I couldn't believe that I just experienced a code. I just helped save a life. Then another man came into the ER and a code was called (I didn't do anything there). After that man was stable enough we moved him up to the ICU where the MD was going to put a central line in. When all of the sudden he coded again. Everyone rushed in and he was back.
So in summary I was able to participate in 1 code and witness 2 others. WOW! all these codes happened before 1000. So my day was packed full of excitment. However, I am not sure if I could do that day after day. Guess it's a good thing that I want to be a NICU nurse and not an ER nurse.
P.S. I am really sore from doing those compression. Yes I may be a little out of shape, but that man was huge and I had to push down far and really hard.
We started off the day checking every floor to make sure things we going as expected for 0730 in the morning. We were in the ICU when the Code Blue rang out and guess what.... the resource nurse goes to code blues. So off we rushed down to the ER. Now a resource nurse does whatever is needed when a code is called (ie. start lines, chest compressions, give meds...) and because he had me with him, I was able to participate in the code. I performed chest compression on the man. Holy cow! that makes a person really tired really fast. I felt such a rush of adrenline. It was intense. However, once it was over I was shaking so bad. I couldn't believe that I just experienced a code. I just helped save a life. Then another man came into the ER and a code was called (I didn't do anything there). After that man was stable enough we moved him up to the ICU where the MD was going to put a central line in. When all of the sudden he coded again. Everyone rushed in and he was back.
So in summary I was able to participate in 1 code and witness 2 others. WOW! all these codes happened before 1000. So my day was packed full of excitment. However, I am not sure if I could do that day after day. Guess it's a good thing that I want to be a NICU nurse and not an ER nurse.
P.S. I am really sore from doing those compression. Yes I may be a little out of shape, but that man was huge and I had to push down far and really hard.
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