Well I just got back from my first med-surg clinical. Preconference starts out with my professor telling us that we'll walk on the floor and stand around wide eyed not knowing a thing. As we walk on the floor, I look around. Sure enough, he was right. We all had no clue what was going on. Fortunately, the nurses were awesome and helped us out. We did basic patient care today--no meds or IVs or anything to make us run screaming into the plains of western Oklahoma. By the end of our shift, it was much more manageable and we're all looking forward to seeing what the med-surg floor has in store for us tomorrow....except for me....I will be waking myself up at 0530 and presenting my bright and shining face in the OR by 0630. That's right, I get to observe and hopefully participate to some degree in my very first surgery! Depending on the day planned, I'll get out early or stay later. Either way it should be full of adventure and experiences I'll look back on and laugh at how silly I was 10 years from now. Now on to what all I did.....
After walking wide eyed onto the floor, I poked my head into my patient's room...who was asleep...at this point I'm thinking it's going to be a similar experience to my nursing home days. BUT once she was awake, I can quite honestly say she was amazing. I'm always amazed by the strength and resilience of the human body. This woman was so patient with us. Especially when the BP cuff started acting up. All this automatic stuff is awesome, but so prone to malfunction. There's nothing like knowing you can do it yourself when the machine fails...I digress...in addition to basic patient care, I got to watch the nurses give meds, including an IV push. They were really patient with us and helped us figure out what was going on amidst the chaos that is the med-surg floor....even though we spent alot of time looking for things to do...
In other news, I have my first med-surg test Monday. So off I go to catch up on my readings.
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