Life of A Male Student Nurse
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Some cool developments!
on Oct 31, 2009 in clinicals vaccination skills lab drugs test Well, nursing school is going along fairly well. I had a skills check, which is essentially a 45 minute period of time in which me, my instructor, and a dummy are in a room and I have to practice my "skills" on them. These are the skills I was expect...
Sickest Patient Yet!
on Oct 23, 2009 in students hospital stress test After complaining that my patient's keep getting discharged my instructor this clinical gave me my sickest patient ever!My patient was a 94 year-old, tube-fed, dementia, and Alzeimer's patient with a C.Dif infection and a UTI. She also had stageThe o...
Drug Calculations Suck!
on Oct 17, 2009 in clinicals drugs test Good news and bad news.Bad news first. I failed my first drug calculation math test. How did I fail you ask? Because I wrote the answer to the hundredths place and not to the tenths place. 6.25mL, the correct answer, should have been written as 6.3mL...
Clinicals! Clinicals!
on Oct 9, 2009 in glucometer clinicals hospital CNA charting test Nursing school is becoming pretty insane pretty quick.I'm passing my tests (well two out of three taken I've gotten grades back on), yet I'm hardly setting the nursing world of academia on fire with my scores. However, I'll take the grades I'm gettin...
First Clinical Over; Test Tomorrow
on Sep 29, 2009 in clinicals stress family test blood pressure Well, I've been quite busy! I got a 97% on my first skills test and I'm friggin' excited about it!My first clinical is complete. Most of it was useless departmental training that I'm going to have to be retrained on next rotation in another hospital.
My Life has Turned Upside Down
on Sep 18, 2009 in nursing class students clinicals work preassignment family off topic blood pressure Nursing school just got a whole lot harder...My orientation was on September 4th, however, I got a phone call that morning that my father had passed away. It was a devastating loss, and I still am having a difficult time with it. Apparently, his hear...