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Nursing School week 2/#9
Mar. 25th, 2012 12:21 amI was good and spent most of the day doing homework, but I think I've now passed the point of productivity...
Our first week back from Spring Break was a little easier than other weeks, but we had an exam on Friday that cast a bit of a pall over the rest of the week. We were assigned to new clinical units with new instructors (though the groupings of students doesn't change). I'm now one floor down and in a different wing than I was before--I'm on a standard "med/surg" floor now. (Meaning, it takes both medical--ex: heart failure, diabetes, pneumonia) and surgical patients. This floor also has its own telemonitoring station for patients on heart monitors, which my last floor didn't have. Occasionally, we'd have a patient on a monitor, and we'd have to pick up a red phone handset--which is directly wired to the telemonitoring department--to find out what the patient's heart rhythm was. Interestingly, there were several rooms on this floor marked "contact precautions"--which might include patients with MRSA. So, apparently not *all* the MRSA patients ended up on my previous floor. Our new instructor seems nice, and has worked on this floor for a little while, which is a help.
Our classes (other than clinical) haven't changed, so we just got back to work in most of them, including an exam in Psychology as well as the nursing exam on Friday.
Our first week back from Spring Break was a little easier than other weeks, but we had an exam on Friday that cast a bit of a pall over the rest of the week. We were assigned to new clinical units with new instructors (though the groupings of students doesn't change). I'm now one floor down and in a different wing than I was before--I'm on a standard "med/surg" floor now. (Meaning, it takes both medical--ex: heart failure, diabetes, pneumonia) and surgical patients. This floor also has its own telemonitoring station for patients on heart monitors, which my last floor didn't have. Occasionally, we'd have a patient on a monitor, and we'd have to pick up a red phone handset--which is directly wired to the telemonitoring department--to find out what the patient's heart rhythm was. Interestingly, there were several rooms on this floor marked "contact precautions"--which might include patients with MRSA. So, apparently not *all* the MRSA patients ended up on my previous floor. Our new instructor seems nice, and has worked on this floor for a little while, which is a help.
Our classes (other than clinical) haven't changed, so we just got back to work in most of them, including an exam in Psychology as well as the nursing exam on Friday.
