So, Monday the 12th. This day brought an abbreviation quiz (the last one!) which went pretty well, although I disagree with the one question I got wrong. The test was structured as doctor's orders and we had to answer questions about it, centered around what the abbreviations were. The one I got wrong was regarding a cardiac patient who was put on BR (bed rest). The question was: can this patient get up and go to the bathroom? I said yes, because I figured it wouldn't be too much stress for the patient to get up and go to the bathroom, but apparently this is not the case.
Following this, we lectured on the cardiac and peripheral vascular system assessments. The hardest part about the cardiac assessment is listening to the chest, especially with a female. They don't really teach you how to work around modesty for a female patient and especially with large-chested women. Other than that, it's just a matter of remembering where you hear each valve best.
The professors let us out a bit early today, which was nice because we had the White Coat Ceremony! They said they were "cloaking" us, but really, they just helped us into our white jackets and then we all said the nurse's oath and we got to take a picture with the Dean of the School of Nursing. This is a more modern version of a hat ceremony; I guess before major concerns with organism contamination, student nurses were given the traditional nurse's white hat as a welcome into the nursing profession.
Families were given the opportunity to write on a card for their student, which was then placed in the pockets of that student's white jacket. My mom gave me two cards, each with some wisdom and motivational stuff. She also included the Nurse's Prayer:
Dear Lord,
grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
the courage to change the things I can, and the
wisdom to hide the bodies of those Doctors I had to kill because they pushed me too far....
Following the ceremony, I had to attend a support group for an assignment. I went to a support group for stroke survivors. It wasn't really what I thought of as a support group, where everyone sits around and speaks about their experiences. This was more of an educational session, and the topic of the evening was living in the moment (not fretting about the past or the future). It was very informative and was a great group of people! There was a lot of positive interaction before and after the lecture, which was good to see.
So, that was about it for the day. A good evening, overall :)
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