Last clinical day!!! And let me say, it was amazing.
I was the 6th of 8 people to arrive for clinicals, and because we didn't have assignments given to us, we apparently got to choose the patient we wanted. First come first serve. I looked over the remaining three patients, and opted not to choose my patient from last week, figuring I'd try someone new. I chose a patient who was in for rule out MI and was just transferred out of the ICU.
And it was a good choice. Although, I admit, I wasn't really sure what to do with such a nice, quiet patient who wanted nothing more than to be nice and polite to me. Goodness, I was wondering why he wasn't yelling at me!
Then, later on in the course of the morning, we had our evaluations with our instructors. They both told me they wanted to take a copy of the concept map and care plan I had done, because it was the most perfect one they had seen. They only took off one-quarter of a point!!
I was very excited and humbled, though, when they told me that I have been a pleasure to have in clinicals. They told me that I respond well to their advice and apply it immediately to the clinical setting (as opposed to arguing and grumbling about it), as well has maintained a very positive attitude even with very challenging patients and duties to perform. They then told me they had two options on the evaluation form, Satisfactory and Unsatisfactory. But, they felt it would not do to lump me in with the rest of my classmates by selecting satisfactory, so they put "highly" next to it and created a new category.
HAPPY!!!!
Don't worry -- I'm not letting it go to my head; I'm incredibly humbled and grateful that I did as well as that. I knew that I couldn't have done poorly, but I honestly did not think that I did THAT well.
In any case, it was an amazing, fulfilling clinical experience this term, and I look forward to more next term!!
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