Class began at 8 today. Toooooo earrrrrllllly, haha. There just don't seem to be enough hours in the day, and it's only week one. Theory lecture again for med/surg, although much less somber. Today was about pain and the perioperative period. So, we learned all about what the nurse's role is prior to surgery and after surgery, and the various roles nurse can have in the operating room. As surgery is something that interests me (among a few other things), I found this pretty good information, although if I were to choose a role, I would choose anything BUT the circulating nurse. They don't actually get to scrub in it seems, but they just run and grab whatever the surgeon needs, scratches his nose if he needs it, etc. An important job, I'm sure, but not something that I would find challenging and interesting every day.
That is the beauty of nursing, though -- if you don't like what you are doing, you can move into another field.
More dimensional analysis today, too. More complicated than the last time, though. It was more about IV fluids and figuring milligrams per kilogram and how many milliliters that equates to. It's good information, although I'm not sure we really need to devote 4 hours to it; most of what the instructor teaches is right out of the book. They could perhaps just assign readings and homework assignments to turn in, since the biggest part of what we do on dimensional analysis days is practice problems.
Medication check-off tomorrow at noon!! I think I'm mostly ready!
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