Send A Man To Nursing School

Let me just start by saying that any one day on the floor as an NA is easily worth a week of clinicals in school!
I have completed my orientation and have also had my first two days on my own.  Orientation consisted of two days with an RN (skills check off I presume) and two [...]

And that’s not just a saying.
First real bad poop case on Saturday afternoon.
Last day of orientation tonight.
Hope to get a recount up on here in the next day or two…stay tuned.

Finally received my schedule yesterday for the second half of my floor orientation.
Working this Thursday through Saturday and then again Monday night.
Weee
The best part is that all of my orientation is on the ortho recovery unit where I was trying to get a static position anyway! YAY
Once orientation is complete I can be floated [...]

Today I will finish my hospital/health system orientation.
By Monday I should have my schedule for the unit(s) orientation that will occur over the next 10-14 days.
In some ways I feel “WOW, this is so cool and wonderful!” and in others it’s “OMG, they are really going to put people’s lives in my hands??  How silly [...]

SU is laying in the dentist chair.
The lidocaine is starting to take affect when she has the realization that it feels like she could have an allergic reaction (though it doesn’t).
Wit that she looks up at the dentist and hygienist and asks, “Is any one here ACLS certified….besides me??”

Today starts the week long orientation for the PRN NA job at the hospital.
Getting paid to sit and listen to the things they have to tell me so I can’t say “They didn’t tell me!”
LOL

Backstory 1:  During one of the last post-clinical conferences of our first semester the clinical instructor, Mrs. Marley, goes around the table and has each one of us give report on our client and discuss their issues and talk about RN Dx’s.  Mr. B.A. White (who, btw, is anything but timid) is giving discussing his [...]

If I didn’t have a calendar in front of me I’d swear it was August.
I haven’t been able to finish half of what I had hoped to accomplish these past couple of weeks between the rain, heat, and mainly the HUMIDITY.  It’s horrible out there.
I kept debating on whether to put in a garden this [...]

Pt admitted for, among other reasons, detox.
Pt is confused and oriented X 1 at best, and RN is trying to orient them to time.
RN: What do you do at night when you are at home?
Pt: Play cards
RN: And what do you do after you play cards?
Pt: Screw
RN: Um, yeah, OK….
Let’s play [...]