Week In Review

OB clinical this past Wednesday was interesting. I was assigned two patients in the nursery. A boy and a girl. Cute kids. I REALLY relied on the skills I've earned as "Poppa" to my two boys. The little boy was borderline jaundice so we had to keep a closer eye on him. The baby girl was as fat and cute as could be... but fussy! They both were good eaters although the baby girl would not go to sleep for anyone else in the nursery but me.

Overall, I didn't really see anything I hadn't seen before until the offer came to witness a C-section. I jumped at the chance. It was quick but interesting. There were no surprises... I recognized every part that was being manipulated (which is good since I've invested umpteen zillion dollars in A&P classes). The OB performing the procedure was very gracious. The scrub nurse was equally gracious. The patient had elected to have tubal ligation performed. That too was interesting to watch.

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Med-Surg clinical, this past Friday, was fairly uneventful. I picked up my patient assignment Thursday afternoon for the following day. Friday clinical started and I had all my paperwork ready that included a care plan and 15 new drug cards (important to mention that I stayed up the night before working on it). And then I arrived to find out my patient had been discharged earlier in the day. Happy for the patient but it sucked for me.

So I got my NEW patient assignment minutes before having to start her assessment. Just rolling with the punches!

But, I shouldn't complain. She was a sweet lady. Poor thing had a stage 3 decubitus ulcer on the lateral aspect of her LLE (translation: crater on the outside of her left foot). I liked her especially because she asked me to turn the thermostat down as low as it would go! She won major points with me on that request.

Despite her wound she turned out to be a walkie-talkie so I didn't get to do too much for her.

During post conference my instructor informed us that she was giving us a few extra days to tweak our care plans (since we hadn't received feedback from our first care plans until just then). It was a nice gesture. Would have loved to known that for reasons I stated earlier. But that's life.

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Halleujah!!! I have all of next week off. Our dean scheduled the coming week as a break to give (as one instructor stated) "time for the students to blow off steam... and the instructors NOT to kill the students!"