I have a dream...

Last night, I dreamed that my clinical instructor gave us our assignments and my patient had 2 different injections each day. I got so excited in my dream. Oh how my concept of excitement has changed over the last 3 months!

I'm finally out for Thanksgiving break! I woke up this morning (Saturday) at 8:00 and MADE myself go back to sleep. I didn't want to get up at 8:00 on my first morning of freedom. I wanted to sleep in! So, I got up at 11:30 instead. Boy, it was nice. I've gotten some laundry done this morning and am going to the grocery store at some point. We have our church Thanksgiving meal tomorrow, so I'm going to cook for that. I think I'm going to spend some of today throwing things away (less stuff is less stuff to keep clean). Maybe cleaning out my closet. (Maybe my eyes are bigger than my watch). This week, I'm making Jacob a new cape. Some of you know about the A-1 cape I made when Jacob was about 3 or 4. Well, now Jonah has taken it over. Jacob has requested a new one. I'll post a picture when I get it done.

Leslie has headed home, so my partner in crime has deserted me for a while. Let me tell you, I sure have LOVED having friends not associated with my church. Some of you have met Leslie, but for those of you who haven't, she's one of the coolest chics I know! VERY different from me, but hey, that keeps things exciting. Have fun in ole' Carolina--say Hi to sugar daddy for me!

Okay, I just heard the washer stop, so I have to go! Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

And then there were none...

I finished my hospital clinicals of nursing 1 today! What a feeling! (...keep believin'...sounds a little like Flashdance) We're off next week for Thanksgiving and then the week after that, I rotate to watch an EKG monitor for an hour and a half and then to a post-op care unit at a surgery center.

Today was a good day! I checked off on my handwashing requirement (I would hope so, by now...) and also my SQ injection. I didn't do another SQ, but she still checked me off b/c I did one a few weeks ago and wasn't going to get a chance for another one. Bummer.

I have been trying for several clinical days to get her pinned down and talk to me about anemia and reading labs so that I can determine the type of anemia a pt has. Every time, she's run out of time because of other clinical group members. Well, today, maybe b/c she got sick of me asking, maybe because she felt like she had time or maybe b/c this was my last clinical day with her, she took time. She sat down with Leslie and me and talked about EKGs and then about my anemia labs. It was a really good learning time. I just wish we had more of them.

FREEDOM!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay, so I haven't blogged in a while--sorry. I keep saying I'll try and do better, but I'm just SOOOO tired!

So here I am to catch you up on everything! Several big things--I got checked off on giving meds!!! Hooray! I don't have to stand around waiting for my instructor to listen to me read orders out loud and then watch me pull out my meds then go to the pt's room and watch me give them. She still checks before I go to the pt's room, but I do everything else without her.

When last I wrote, we had begun the CV (cardiovascular) unit. Now we've had our first test--and got it back today. I made an 88!!! Hooray again! I was a bit concerned about this test, but overall, as long as I passed, I was okay with whatever grade I got. I also turned in my last assessment paper for Nsg 1. What a sense of freedom. I was up until 2 am last night finishing it, but finally, I'm done with my papers. Now all I have left to do is one more unit test and the final. I think I can handle that. I tend to do pretty good on the tests.

Today in class, we covered dysrhythmias. Talk about overwhelmed. That was A LOT of information in a VERY short time period. I wasn't as prepared for class as I should've been since I was up last night working on my paper. I'll catch up over Thanksgiving.

Tomorrow's clinical patient is pretty boring--nothing too exciting. I'd really like to have a pt with some IM meds or SQ meds. Now that's my idea of a good time!

People are starting to drop out of class now. We stuck pretty constant all semester and now I think grades are falling and people are leaving. I'm interested to see how many we start Nsg 2 with.

Stay tuned....