Send A Man To Nursing School

Today was the very last clinical day for second semester. YAY
Not sure how I feel about the way they are wrapping it up though. We get our clinical evaluation and final grade from our last clinical instructor.
The way that my rotations fell, my last instructor is someone I had for two half days. [...]

Scenario:
You’re the RN.
Patient is end-stage something or other which causes severe pain.  They are DNR and are asking for pain meds.  They are aware that the dosage needed to address their pain could be lethal.
You know that administering this dose will most likely lead to their death.
Is this providing comfort?  Or is it euthanasia?
Do you [...]

Me, carrying two armfuls of, well, just about everything.
Fellow student: Looks like you have an armful.
Me: Yep.
Fellow Student: If I hear a crash I’ll come running….
Me: Thanks. It’ll be too late then.
lol

What a relief the day after Angels Among Us is.
1. It feels great to run a 5k. This year I ran the entire length (last year had to stop a couple of times d/t side splints).
2. Being done with all the work it takes to run a team is a HUGE relief.
For [...]

Today is(was) Earth Day.
The day we acknowledge how important the earth is to our being and try to treat her a little better.
One day versus the other 364…
Me thinks we have this completely backwards.

Item on list of RN school goals:
Ace a test - Check!!

Unit IV exam done.
Project presentation is finally gaining form and participation.
Video taping of prerecorded segments is scheduled for Thu/Fri of this week.

The unit exam tomorrow covers screening exams for adults.
While studying I flashed back to the lecture that covered this material. One of the screenings covered is a colonoscopy, and being RN students we are not only concerned with the “why the test” and “the how’s of the test”, but required preparations and monitoring/assessing post [...]

This week continues the Sim Labs in lieu of Clinical.
Tomorrow is Adolescent.  Thursday is a dehydrated toddler.
We’ll be dealing with an adolescent with ADHD and a substance problem.
{I’ll take heat for this…but}
Which begs the question: ADHD, a real disease or just poor parenting?
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Teen’s and two’s - Part 2
Yesterday was less painful than expected, but [...]

They have taken the “real” L&D clinical rotation out of our program and we now have a couple of days of L&D simulation lab. Today was day 1. I was the midwife. I tried to be the laboring mother, but no dice.
Some insights about birth plans:

They should be made 10 months before [...]