Hi my name is Katie and I'm a first year nursing major at SWOSU! One of my friends inspired me to start this blogging thing after I read her blog. Maybe I'll tell you which one is hers later but I'll keep you in suspense for now... Anyways, I thought it might be a good idea to record the many adventures I have while learning how to be supernurse and blow off some school related stress in one go. Seems like a good idea now, we'll see where this goes... I just finished my first nursing class ever!! Fundamentals of Nursing was surprisingly....fun lol I learned a lot of the basic nursing skills and spent about 6 weeks working in a nursing home with 7 very awesome girls and a pretty fun instructor. We spent most of our time talking to our patients and probably annoying the CNAs with our constant search for something to do. Usually that consisted of feeding, transfers, bathing, and taking vitals. We were each assigned a patient and got to get to know them and develop care plans... Mine didn't seem very interested in talking so I often left frustrated. But I admit, while I spent most of the time frustrated, I was a little sad when it came to an end. But guess what?? I start my next round of clinicals next week! I'm so excited to start learning how a hospital works and get to use some of my new skills. As far as I can tell, med-surg nursing is the type of nursing you see in the medical shows...taking care of patients after surgery and keeping them comfortable type thing. I hope I get to see and learn a lot this next 8 weeks.
So aside from being crazy busy and learning tons, I've gotten to meet a bunch of awesome people. We went to our first convention last week and I got to see a different side of a few of my nursing buddies...some of them have...interesting taste in music lol. After spending a couple nights as the only 4 girls in a scary hotel, I feel very close to them. Close enough to let them practice sticking IVs in me. One for each hand. It was super scary and one of them blew a vein! It kind of hurts, but one of my instructors said if I kept icing it, it should be fine. I can't be too upset about it since I missed the poor girl's vein entirely...don't worry! I'll have it figured out before I try again :)
Well that's about all I can think of to say for right now. I probably said too much lol but I'm new at this. Let's hope it works out!
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