Nursing School week 3/ #9
Oct. 20th, 2012 11:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pantsheadOur new rotations have begun! No clinical this week, but lots of orientation and lectures.
Tuesday was our orientation day for Maternal/Neonatal care. We had lecture in the morning, and then met with our clinical instructors and toured the labor and delivery floor of the hospital. My group will be starting in L&D and then move to the post-partum floor (where mothers and their babies stay for a day or two before discharge). We start on this floor next week--the hope is that we'll all get to see at least one birth. Unfortunately by next week we won't have actually covered labor and delivery in lecture, which means we have some extra reading to do this weekend.
Wednesday was our orientation day for Mental Health. This was a shorter day, because we didn't go tour the clinical unit. We started learning about some of the statistics regarding mental health (as many as 50% of people will experience some form of mental illness in their lifetime) and also some of the barriers to receiving care (lack of insurance coverage and stigma being two big problems). We will do clinical for this class, too (I start the week after next). The clinical takes place on a locked floor of a nearby hospital. Mostly, we'll just be talking with the patients....and writing about it a lot. The floor is a locked floor mostly for the protection of the patients (not the protection of 'society').
Thursday and Friday we had lecture in both classes. Unlike Community health (last rotation), these are both 3 or 3.5-credit classes. This means 2.33 hours of Maternity lecture each day, and 1.8 hours of Mental Health. By Friday, the Mental Health lecture seemed sort of interminable... we were all just tired out! Unlike last rotation, we don't have quizzes everyday! And there's only one group project, due at the very end of the semester and not worth very much of our grade! We do have plenty of other work--including our first exam coming up next week already--and more-detailed write-ups to do from our clinicals.
In other news, we were excited to hear that PoC's family is hoping to come out here for Thanksgiving. Still hashing out details, but it would be nice to have them!
Tuesday was our orientation day for Maternal/Neonatal care. We had lecture in the morning, and then met with our clinical instructors and toured the labor and delivery floor of the hospital. My group will be starting in L&D and then move to the post-partum floor (where mothers and their babies stay for a day or two before discharge). We start on this floor next week--the hope is that we'll all get to see at least one birth. Unfortunately by next week we won't have actually covered labor and delivery in lecture, which means we have some extra reading to do this weekend.
Wednesday was our orientation day for Mental Health. This was a shorter day, because we didn't go tour the clinical unit. We started learning about some of the statistics regarding mental health (as many as 50% of people will experience some form of mental illness in their lifetime) and also some of the barriers to receiving care (lack of insurance coverage and stigma being two big problems). We will do clinical for this class, too (I start the week after next). The clinical takes place on a locked floor of a nearby hospital. Mostly, we'll just be talking with the patients....and writing about it a lot. The floor is a locked floor mostly for the protection of the patients (not the protection of 'society').
Thursday and Friday we had lecture in both classes. Unlike Community health (last rotation), these are both 3 or 3.5-credit classes. This means 2.33 hours of Maternity lecture each day, and 1.8 hours of Mental Health. By Friday, the Mental Health lecture seemed sort of interminable... we were all just tired out! Unlike last rotation, we don't have quizzes everyday! And there's only one group project, due at the very end of the semester and not worth very much of our grade! We do have plenty of other work--including our first exam coming up next week already--and more-detailed write-ups to do from our clinicals.
In other news, we were excited to hear that PoC's family is hoping to come out here for Thanksgiving. Still hashing out details, but it would be nice to have them!
