Today was clinical orientation. I woke up at 5 thinking that I had to be at my clinical site at 7. Hahaha. I checked my planner and realized I had to be there at 8. Oops. I stayed up instead of grabbing another hour of sleep because I was too excited to go to sleep anyway. 6 a.m. rolled around and I started pulling myself together which consisted of a long shower. My scrubs looked nice, my hair looked great so everything was fine with the world.
Umm, lets see. I arrived at my clinical site at 7:35ish. Traffic was horrid, but okay for the most part. I didn't know if I was parked in the right place because I never received an email about parking from my professor. That was my own fault because I emailed the wrong woman three days ago and didn't realize my mistake until this morning. >.<
So I sat around in my car and waited until I saw some classmates. One showed up and I flagged her down. A few more showed up. Around this time I was beginning to feel a bit better about myself. Then we all realized we had parked in the wrong place (another student went and asked) so we had to climb back into our cars and move. We ran into our clinical instructor and she led us inside the nursing home.
The 4 hour orientation was a bit overwhelming. We played a scavenger hunt where we had to find where everything in the place was. This building was huge so it took me a while to find everything even WITH 6 other girls there to help me. He got trained how to use a gait belt and then after a talk with the other clinical instructor about how we'd be graded we got our patient assignments. I got to look at my first chart today. It was amazing and overwhelming at the same time. I never knew a chart could hold that much information about a person. The thing weighed about 8 lbs. LOL. We found out why our patient was there, what meds they were on etc. All in all it was very eye opening. I'll never complain about a mild headache again. These people are very, very sick. It's really sad, but it's my job to take care of them and I will. XD
So, yeah. That's my first day at clinical. It wasn't really eventful. Afterward I had another skills lab to get to, so after lunch at my sister's I went to that. When I finally got home I attempted to study, but instead I slept for 5 hours straight. I've never been so tired in my life. Nursing school is wearing me out. I literally fell asleep with my face pressed against my pharmacology book. I'm about to go study a bit more now so I won't fall behind more than I already am. Tomorrow I don't have class so I'll be catching up on all the web stuff I need to finish and these papers I need to write. This semester is almost over. I can see the light.
ONLY 3 MORE SEMESTERS TO GO!!
Me! XD
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