I finally got my chance to be in labor and delivery today! And it was the most amazing, beautiful, unreal experience!! I cried--and that is something I didn't see coming!
The father was so supportive of his girlfriend, cheering her on, holding her hand, and getting her water as she needed it. And, I was able to take some pictures and video for them, so that was great.
I felt kind of useless, but I know that just being there for them, silencing alarms, and helping hold the mother's leg when the nurse was busy was definitely a big help. And the nurse was AWESOME!! You'd have to be a really special person to work in labor and delivery and love it every day! There are good days and there would definitely be bad days. But she said this was a really good delivery to see--it could have gone so much worse, but considering all the risk factors, it actually went really well.
That experience took up most of the day, and I had very little time to gather my information for the labor and delivery assignment, so I stayed a little late today. That's fine--because tomorrow will be the first day in what feels like forever that I won't have to be up at 0500!!
I talked to my instructor, and she said I had too many nursing diagnoses, and that some of them I didn't have enough evidence or support for. So that simplifies my assignment quite a bit. I will be completing that and studying for the upcoming week! We have a new class that starts on Monday--Research! It's mostly a hybrid class, where we do a lot of work outside of class on the computer, and meet only a few times. This will be nice, since it's that same professor I am really struggling to like.
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