Clinicals :)

I really enjoyed clinicals this week. I had an awesome experience and I got to do some things I've never done before. I really enjoyed oncology more than I thought I would. I feel invigorated and ready to soldier on with nursing school..such a blessing since I had been letting my nerves get the best of me. Now I'm ready to study for all of the upcoming tests in the next 8 days and then go back to clinicals :)

Open Lab

I really like to go to Open Lab. Every time I do, I find it to be really helpful. Today I went to practice IV Push (which I thought I knew how to do) and then discovered that I was really fumbling with it. So the instructor walked us through it and I feel much better, but I'm going back in the morning to practice some more before clinicals.

The thing that I really took from the experience though was some really good advice. To go in to testing and tell the instructor exactly what I'm doing. How much medicine I drew up, how much normal saline I mixed it with, how long I'm going to infuse it, and that I looked it up in the book. To BE CONFIDENT and act like I have it and I will do fine with it.

So that will be added to my current personal goals of the semester, which are to be more confident at clinicals and to have the assessment memorized so that I no longer need a cheat sheet and I can just do it from head to toe.

I'm just trying to take it one day at a time and remember that every day is a gift. ;)