Archive for August, 2009

Tain’t Cheap.

What’s not cheap? Being an “adult”. Being in nursing school. Owning a home. Having a family. Not having a trust fund back east. Being an adult in nursing school with a home and a family and no trust fund back east really takes the cake though. (Although medical bills, emergencies, car troubles, etc etc would [ READ MORE ]

Names?

Working in a hospital, you see tons of names. Every day all day. And some of those names are less conventional than others. Nowadays, people are trying to be as creative as possible with names. One of my coworkers is pregnant and we were looking at some names online. Some of those were names I [ READ MORE ]

Result

So I didn’t pass the test. But, apparently only 6-7 people in our class made over an 85. I got a 79 which is the best you can do when failing. Bah. If only I had got one more question right. It’s okay. They said it was tricky and a complete different format than we [ READ MORE ]

Simulation Lab

Well, today I’m at clinical in the simulation lab at school. I have to be honest, the Sim. Lab frightens me to know end. Why? At the end of last semester, we had a simulation lab without ever being told what one was or what to expect. We actually didnt even know we were going [ READ MORE ]

Some other blogs.

So, I was online last weekend at work during a slow patch and have been finding so many nursing/medical blogs out there on the worldwide web. On the right hand column I’ve put links to a few of them. Feel free to check them out! Nursing blogs for mental health, LPN’s, emergency room…its all totally [ READ MORE ]

My brain is dead.

Soooo, I probably bombed that first test. Things aren’t looking promising based off of that group test. Ughhhh. How unfortunate. Like mid-70s is what I’m thinking. Or hoping for. I think around a 75? If its worse I’ll just curl up in the fetal position. Anything below an 80 is failing. Screw you first test [ READ MORE ]

Test #1

Tomorrow is our first test of the semester. It’s covering operating room (pre-, intra-, and post), cancer, fluids, electrolytes, and acid-base balance. All that smushed into 50 questions. fmylife. It’ll be okay, right[ READ MORE ]

No, [I,You,We] Can’t.

It’s a Saturday which means I’m in the PICU. Today is somewhat busy, but not in the sense of admissions. More in the sense of crazy family members. Being in an ICU, we get the normal, worried, upset parents, etc. But being in the ICU, we also get the crazy ones. So here’s who I’m [ READ MORE ]

You know you’ve been in nursing school too long when…

Yesterday was a full day of clinicals. Got out at three and worked on my paperwork and then gave my brother-in-law a ride home. I got home finally a little before six and studied until Ishaq got off of work. We had a lovely dinner date at PF Changs and then went home to watch [ READ MORE ]

Leads!

Memory tools are ever-so-useful. So here’s a quick way to remember the correct order to put on the leads that hook a patient up to the monitors. There are five leads in various colors and when in a hurry, it can get confusing. So, here’s the nitty gritty. White on the right Snow over grass [ READ MORE ]


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