StudentNurse
Thursday, September 14, 2006
First day of clinicals
I just barely crawled out of bed, took one of my allergy pills amd now here i am. My head is killing me. But i'm trying to be strong as always.
I was nervous and anxious yesterday as my first day of clinicals. And guess what? it went great! I got assigned to a pt, who's a retired RN and who my nurse thought was nasty. okie the pt gets easily agitated but when i walked in there she was polite and said hi. She is a fall pt. She fell at home and broke her L hip. She had surgery done and a fixation of the hip was done. She's in excruciating pain :( She's on foley cath b/c she can't ambulate. She's on IV and also P.O. The day shift nurse i was assigned to, J was great. She let me do a whole load of stuff and also showed me how to chart on the hospital's computers. Computer's are different in each hospital but it's nice to at least have an idea. It was really interesting b/c she showed me how to look up meds info. If I don't have a clue what a certain med is i can look it up. I got most of my case recording info, almost all of it from the pt's file and talking to her and the nurse.
We got there at 3pm. Kinda lounged abit and went upstairs to 7th flr to meet charge nurse, L, who oriented us and showed us where each of the items/places on our scavenger list were and she gave us the codes for access to different rooms. It was all interesting, then we sat in the lounge and went through the different sections of a pt file. After that we took a break until 5pm. At 5pm is when we met our assigned nurses, each of us had one who we were suppossed to 'shadow' for the next whatever number of hours until the PM shift came in. At 7pm we had our dinner break and went out, grabbed something for about 45mins and got back at about 8pm. We came in to find the PM shift nurses already in. We kept the same pts but different nurses. I waited on my PM shift, S who was at first not very receptive but after a while she gave in to me and let me shadow her to almost all of her pts. She was very kind, she introduced me to her pts, walked me through what each pt had and what she was doing to them and even let me do some of the procedures. She let me take a listen to the pt's lungs, stomach, heart and chest sounds, am now doing it hands on it's so fascinating. I also emptied a few caths and talked to some pts who were really interesting. It feels good to be there for others who need us and be able to offer some kind of help :) At the end of the shift i walked a pt who had her op that morning and it was interesting too. S also showed me a fistula :)
The floor we are on is basically a fracture ops floor. At 10pm we had our post-conf w/out lab instructor. Everyone went on and on about how their day was and how their assigned nurses were. We left at 10:30pm. L.I gave me a ride to the T.S.. I was at the T.S. alone at 11pm, twas all deserted and scary. It's getting pitch dark now with winter coming. I got home at 12am. I started my driving classes w/ G yesterday and it was so exciting i was nervous at first but she's really great teacher so i relaxed. I keep moving towards the curb don't ask me why b/c i don't know. We'll do some more today. I really need to get my DL please help me God.
Today i'll get my info for the care plan paper i have to write and get all the NANDA stuff i need.
I'll make a cup of coffee and go back to sleep, i feel pooped and my headache is still on, ugh. I got pretty bad news from my bank, tuesday night, but i called them yesterday morning to sort it out, hopefully by end month i'll be fine.
Go me!
I was nervous and anxious yesterday as my first day of clinicals. And guess what? it went great! I got assigned to a pt, who's a retired RN and who my nurse thought was nasty. okie the pt gets easily agitated but when i walked in there she was polite and said hi. She is a fall pt. She fell at home and broke her L hip. She had surgery done and a fixation of the hip was done. She's in excruciating pain :( She's on foley cath b/c she can't ambulate. She's on IV and also P.O. The day shift nurse i was assigned to, J was great. She let me do a whole load of stuff and also showed me how to chart on the hospital's computers. Computer's are different in each hospital but it's nice to at least have an idea. It was really interesting b/c she showed me how to look up meds info. If I don't have a clue what a certain med is i can look it up. I got most of my case recording info, almost all of it from the pt's file and talking to her and the nurse.
We got there at 3pm. Kinda lounged abit and went upstairs to 7th flr to meet charge nurse, L, who oriented us and showed us where each of the items/places on our scavenger list were and she gave us the codes for access to different rooms. It was all interesting, then we sat in the lounge and went through the different sections of a pt file. After that we took a break until 5pm. At 5pm is when we met our assigned nurses, each of us had one who we were suppossed to 'shadow' for the next whatever number of hours until the PM shift came in. At 7pm we had our dinner break and went out, grabbed something for about 45mins and got back at about 8pm. We came in to find the PM shift nurses already in. We kept the same pts but different nurses. I waited on my PM shift, S who was at first not very receptive but after a while she gave in to me and let me shadow her to almost all of her pts. She was very kind, she introduced me to her pts, walked me through what each pt had and what she was doing to them and even let me do some of the procedures. She let me take a listen to the pt's lungs, stomach, heart and chest sounds, am now doing it hands on it's so fascinating. I also emptied a few caths and talked to some pts who were really interesting. It feels good to be there for others who need us and be able to offer some kind of help :) At the end of the shift i walked a pt who had her op that morning and it was interesting too. S also showed me a fistula :)
The floor we are on is basically a fracture ops floor. At 10pm we had our post-conf w/out lab instructor. Everyone went on and on about how their day was and how their assigned nurses were. We left at 10:30pm. L.I gave me a ride to the T.S.. I was at the T.S. alone at 11pm, twas all deserted and scary. It's getting pitch dark now with winter coming. I got home at 12am. I started my driving classes w/ G yesterday and it was so exciting i was nervous at first but she's really great teacher so i relaxed. I keep moving towards the curb don't ask me why b/c i don't know. We'll do some more today. I really need to get my DL please help me God.
Today i'll get my info for the care plan paper i have to write and get all the NANDA stuff i need.
I'll make a cup of coffee and go back to sleep, i feel pooped and my headache is still on, ugh. I got pretty bad news from my bank, tuesday night, but i called them yesterday morning to sort it out, hopefully by end month i'll be fine.
Go me!
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