CLINICAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Early day to start, but thankfully I got lots of sleep the night before... yeah... right... I survived on coffee!! You know those stress dreams you get right before a big day (usually the first day of school for me....). Yeah, I had some of those.
Anyways, I got to the hospital right on time (0650) to allow enough time to get up to the floor for morning report. We got reports and our patient assignments (6 of my group mates were paired up because of low census; I was by myself--scary!!). I had a patient who had severe COPD. We were supposed to spend some time talking to our patient to gather their social history and past medical history. Unfortunately, my patient (who was set to go home) had some severe deterioration and progressed to where he could only say one syllable at a time. I did what I was assigned to do (took two sets of vitals, monitored Is & Os, did a quick head to toe assessment, and charted), as well as a few additional things (got him coffee, made sure RT was called for breathing treatments, and got him a change of pajamas). Overall, I was pretty happy with the day, although there was one or two things I messed up on. I promise you that I will never mess up on those again, though!!
At the end of shift, I had to report to my patient's nurse. I was glad she paid attention to my well-delivered report... yeah... because one can pay attention while doing a crossword puzzle and not making eye contact..... Nurse's eat their young.
After clinicals, I came home and crashed for about 5 hours.... I didn't really do anything to make me tired; I think it was just because of such a buildup of stress and anticipation for the clinicals and then to have it over with really took a load off my shoulders!!
Anyways, nothing else planned for the weekend, except to study, study, study. Four exams next week!!!
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