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Hey Everyone,

Sheeew…I have been so busy! Remember it is crunch time for me. Today was officially my last day of clinicals for this semester…YAH! I can’t believe it…school is flying by and I am so loving it. Monday of course I had class. Tuesday for my care of adults clinical I was on a cardiac step-down unit and it was fun. I got to access PICC lines and give medications through a PEG tube by gravity. I also got to do A LOT of full body nursing assessments and I seen my first case of pitting edema. I really had to look for it…I always thought it would be really easy to spot but the only reason I found it was because I was feeling for pulses in the feet. It is so cool. You press hard on it and it sinks in. Its like the pt has gel under their skin. My pt had pitting edema 2+.

Wednesday was my day off and I studied the whole day. However, I did manage sometime to go and do laundry at the laundry mat which is another down side of living in an apartment without washer and dryer hook-up. I have been doing my laundry at the laundry mat for about 3 years now and I am so ready for my own washer and dryer darn it. Each load of laundry costs $1.75…it use to be $1.25 but inflation increased it.

Today, which is Thursday, I was at the Primary Care Clinic where I drew blood all day and gave flu shots. I had a wonderful time today. I think it was my favorite clinical by far. I feel so much more competent in drawing blood and it is actually really fun. There is nothing like finding a good vein, sticking it, and seeing a blood return. I swear I get excited every time it happens LOL. I also gave like 50 flu shots today. That was really fun too. I did have some patients that were wasted away and didn’t have much muscle in their arms and the needle did hit the bone…..however they didn’t complain. I haven’t got my flu shot and I don’t know if I will??!! So as of today I am done with my clinicals for the semester WOOHOO!!

Tomorrow I have class from 815-1115 for care of older adults. Oh yeah I got my test results back and did really good on it. I got a 92 on the test YAH!! I have another wretched test on Monday over renal system and heart…it is going to be a doozy! I hope everyone has a great week!

Until next time,

Sarah

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Hey everyone,

Great news!! Okay while I was at clinicals today on the cardiac floor (remember I want to be a cardiac nurse) the floor nurse manager asks me if I would like a job and I was like well what do you mean job? She said that she had a nurse intern position open for me if I wanted it and the thing was that I was already thinking about applying for it but talked myself out of it and thought it would be too much to handle so I quit thinking about. However, today it was brought up again and I was actually being recruited for the job. So I was like yeah. First of all the pay rate is AWESOME. I can work whatever hours I want. If I work at least 20 hours a week I can qualify for health insurance (another major plus). So she told me to put in an application and to call her after I did. When I got home from clinicals I immediately did it and called her. She said that she will be calling me back sometime to set-up an appointment time to meet. So cross your fingers I get it. I really want the experience and to get my foot in the door because that is the floor I want to work on after I graduate in May. Not to mention I am been praying to God about it and of course everything will go as He wants it planned.

Well I am off to do my careplan (blah blah). I hate careplans…so time consuming. Oh yeah check out my twitter thing in the left hand corner…cool huh?! You can always check here to see what I am doing. Have a great week!

Until next time,
Sarah

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