Today was the first official day in the hospital, after being snowed out last week. It was definitely trial by fire, but I guess there is no better way than learning how to adapt to patient's needs than by just doing it.
Here is a brief list of the things I survived!
* A 5:15 am wake up call via 2 different alarms, one being far enough away to make me get out of bed
* A most unfortunate looking uniform- White scrub pants, a navy blue w/ gold trim tunic (that feels about 2 sizes too big), all white tennis shoes and a lab coat (which is the best part of the whole get up)
* A very fiesty, hallucinating patient
* Assisting another student get her patient out of bed. (Please remember those hospital gowns barely close in the back and I got to help from behind.)
* The dreaded bed bath. Lucky for me he was able to do a lot of it himself. (Whew... lucked out on that one!)
On a lighter note, there were a couple different versions of McDreamy and McSteamy resident's on our floor :-) Looking forward to next Wednesday!
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Congrats on a successful first day!
ugh...congrats and more power to ya. I have lots of respect for the nursing profession...I could never do it.
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