Nursing Updates

It has come to my attention that I am in nursing school and never talk about what I'm doing so here is a little recap of the semester thus far...

I am now doing clinicals and it is crazy busy but super fun. I love being in the hospital! I have been on the medical floor where I have placed catheters, given IV's, wiped bottoms, been exposed to the swine flu (millions of times), gotten the swine flu, wiped more bottoms, infused blood, given my own blood (and almost puked at the size of the needle), had patients dies, had patients get better, been yelled at by cranky old people for smiling too much, and creeped past prison inmates.

I have also been in the operating room and recovery. I have seen knees replaces, been hit in the face (mask) with shards of bone, I have been splashed with a spinal block when it blew from an osteoporosis vertebrae, I have watched a baby be born(c-section is very violent) and tubes tied. I now know exactly what they did when they removed my gallbladder, and helped people recover from nicked bladders. The saddest thing I have dealt with is a little child waking up from anesthetic screaming because they don't know why they are in so much pain.

I have learned a lot and can't wait for more and more to come!