Day off

My group and I did not have clinicals this Thursday. This is the first full day off (for a while) and I wanted to enjoy it but unfortunately, my refridgerator/freezer stopped working overnight and things were already defrosted and going bad. My husband and I went to buy a new freezer but the stores that we went to could only deliver saturday or next week and we could not wait that long. Eventually we found one at Lowes and they agreed to deliver the next day. Meanwhile after calling all over Tallahassee for a same day service and I had to wait almost all day for the appliance repair person to come and repair the broken appliance. It was an interesting day.

I enjoyed my lab on friday although I am getting a bit panicky. It seems to me that it is taking me a bit longer to do the math than others.  God will help me.

Week 4 Lab

As I earlier wrote, I had a good clinical day at TMH rehab. However, for some reason during my Lab the following day (Friday), I do not know what the trigger was - but I started recalling (reminiscing) my experiences at NICU and PICU at TMH over ten years ago. I choked up for a momment particularly when we were doing transfer of patient from bed to stretcher (something I experienced with my son's almost lifeless body  several times) and as we stood aroung the bed/stretcher, I had a vivid recollection of the nurses, emt etc standing around the bed ready to transfer him. Amazing. Now I am more determined on this program.

Clinical day 2

What a day! I have enjoyed my second day of clinicals. I was able to meet my goals for the day and made 4 beds as well as took vital signs with relative ease. I was not as nervous as I was on clinical day 1. However, i was not able to do any baths on the patients as most of them had already had their baths before we started. I was jealous of my team members on the other side of the floor as they had to do a few baths - both complete and assisted. I would havd liked to have gained that experience. I am now looking forward to the next clinicals.

2nd week blog

Thank God I have survived the first two weeks of school. I have to re-take the math quiz as I missed more than 1 question. I was so nervous for some reason and somehow did not get the correct answers to fairly straightforward questions. I needed more time. I think the time (20mins) alloted for the quiz was too short. Anyhow, I have surely enjoyed the weekend and look forward to next week.

Theresa