Intermission, er, Intercession

This week has been full of mid-term items; mid-term eval for clinicals/skills, 3rd test of 6.
Now we’re on a three week break.
Actually, about 2-1/2 weeks, the last week the school is having remediation and enhancement seminars.
Plan to put some posts up on here that have been nothing but vapor up to this point.

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Would OnStar Have Helped?

Consider this scenario:
You are a floor nurse in a hospital and you have a client who is not quite with it.  They are able to do things and converse, but the thought processes aren’t all working together.  In addition to checking in on your client every hour or two, you administer antibiotics about every four [...]

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First Clinical Follow-up

My first real-world clinical was an excellent experience.
First off, and most importantly, no one died!
I figure that’s always a priority.
We spent the morning in the new born nursery followed by discussions and debriefing after lunch.
Most interesting things:  The babies so easily choke on their own spit, and there are quite a few babies born [...]

First Ever Real Experience

Today is my very first ever, real life clinical.
Wish me luck!

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Status Update

It’s been a busy couple of weeks.  A week of labs and lecture, then a week of simulation labs and lecture.  Now we have our second test coming up on Wednesday morning.
Add in that the Labor Day holiday isn’t so much of a holiday as far as school goes.  We had Monday off but they [...]

Blogus Interruptus

The website was down the last couple of days due to issues at the hosting company.
They gave me about a one hour notification that they would be moving my site to a new server, and then of course it didn’t work on the new server…
But, hey, I’m back.
Updates on the last weeks activities and more [...]

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