Study Break

I'm taking a quick study break to update the blog. So far, things have gone well. We've FINALLY gone into the hospital for my clinical group. Our clinical instructor is still on vacation and won't be back for another week or so..go figure. So, we have a "substitute clinical instructor"..who is pretty cool. However, we're kinda behind the other clinical groups, especially the days program..since 2 times we were let out early because our sub instructor didn't show up. I think it was a matter of miscommunication..but still...

We started pharmacology last week and I can tell I'm going to like it. Granted, this semester, it's only 1 credit..and I won't be getting too deep into it..but I can already tell...learning about drugs will be interesting!

Last Thursday was our first time in the hospital since the nursing assistant course and it was cool. We didn't do any patient care but we were assigned patients and had to record almost everything about them..history of admission/illness..allergies..past health history..psychosocial/family history..medical management, etc. Then there were a million questions we had to answer - Did the patient develop further complications during hospitalization? How were they addressed? What is the patient's condition now? What are the important assessments to make? Yadda yadda ya. It's cool though..because I had to get really familiar with the chart! The hospital I'm doing my clinical rotation has computer charting too..but they also have the paper ones. Which is good and bad. Since I don't have full access to the computer charts, it's more bad!

We also started lab, which counts as clinical time. We basically got an introduction to lab last week. The lab instructor is HILARIOUS..I know I will enjoy the lab time well.

Well, that's all for now. The clinical paperwork is due on Wednesday but since I have awful handwriting, I'm re-writing all of my work. *sigh* Might as well get a start on it now..