Nursing School Level One

medications must be poured at eye level to be accurate...which at times can make you cross eyed

we start passing meds in a week I'm so nervous there's so much to know

drawing up heparin...must be very accurate (notice I'm not even looking at the syringe)

tied down... wasn't so bad

Level one of nursing school is almost over. in this level was fundamentals, geriatric nursing which i got the highest grade in the class on, nutrition, and pharmacology. it ends on the 30th of July with the final for pharmacology and a skills testing where we have to prove we can do a head to toe assessment on a person, insert a catheter using sterile technique, and check a persons blood glucose level competently. wish me luck. by the way for those who read this i passed my pharmacology practicum about 30 seconds after it began! Level two is medical surgical nursing. we start with integument system, respiratory system, and musculoskeletal system.

Pharmacology and Medications...

okay okay...i know its been a while but do you have time to be on blog spot and memorize over 200 drugs, what they are used for and how they work...yeah me either. so we have finished the drill part where we crammed fifty chapters of information into six weeks and one very small head (mine) but i survived and now i have two weeks to get on top of it before the final...the teachers say they will pound the meds into our heads until we are tenderized beefed up students. i don't know about that but there are times life is stinky and i need more sleep. i assume now I'm only going to sleep when I'm dead...lol! keep you updated as i go.

Clinicals

So clinical's are coming to an end...and we are moving as a group over to another area in santa ana. its with the military instructor and i have to say im scared to the bageebies. I see some of the most horrific things there. pressure ulcers the size of the persons back and if you don't know what a pressure ulcer looks like please let me give you a visual...this is a stage 4 pressure ulcer. the worst you can get. it has complete skin break down and the red you see in the center is muscle. this is caused by someone simply didn't do their job.

this is what i see and deal with on a daily basis. this is why i want to be a nurse so i can prevent this from happening to someone else. this is only the beginning of what i see.

the stress of clinicals

Okay so the stress of clinicals is starting to get to me. But i have to tell you i love my patients...it kills me to leave on Tuesday and come back the following Monday and see three of my eight patients gone. they went home becuase i work in the acute ward and really don't get to keep them more than 6-10 weeks. i have one new patient which gave me a totaly of only 5 so they felt that i did not have enough patients so they gave me 4 more. im exhausted and some of those people really need to stop pusing their call button every two minuets (literally). Lisa called today and we got to talk and i loved it she has been on my mind for almost a week and it started to really bug me. we talked about everything. It was so nice to hear from good friends. be back soon.

Just Some Pictures

Practicing Vital signs with Mrs. Cora, Ofie (the patient) and Jabeen

Mrs. Metoyer (very cool teacher) showing a duckbill prevention mask

We had to brush each others teeth not a fun experience

We were learning how to properly wear a mask

You know you love the Gown

Our Class Spring 2010

Apparently fire extinguisher training is required to work in a hospital who would have guessed?

Nursing and Fire Extinguishers

So, i had my first week of nursing school this week and it was well interesting to say the least. we got our uniforms Monday all of mine were extremely small and they will only take back two cuz i had to wear two and once you wear them they are yours for life! :( i can live with the shirts but not the pants they dig into my skin and create sores and bruises not fun. so this weekend i have to go and find the exact same pants from an outside source DEPRESSING. Monday was so slow and unorganized it was incredible. Tuesday wasn't bad they were better i have two teachers as of right now Mrs. wash (she scares the bageebies out of me) and Mrs. matoyer (nicest person if you don't piss her off with your cell phone-someone learned that the hard way this week and it wasn't me lol). Wednesday we did a special class on CPR for the professional rescuer and apparently I'm legally obligated to help someone now if i find them and can be prosecuted or sued or both in the event i get caught leaving someone at the scene of an accident or elsewhere without helping them until other emergency personnel arrives. Thursday we got to play with fire extinguishers. apparently as a nurse you must have special training and actually discharge a fire extinguisher in order to be considered safe to work in a hospital. Friday is not a mandatory school day but they call it success Friday so i went thinking i could get help with things i don't understand on my homework. WRONG we spent four hours talking and talking and talking i couldn't concentrate to save my life i doubt i will do it again it was a total wast of four hours. and now i have a bunch of homework to do I'll keep you updated at time goes on!