stories of saving babies and the wizard of oz
it'll make sense later in the entry.
so i have been working my ass off at work. this whole orientation thing is the real deal...not that i thought it would be easy, but it's been pretty crazy. i constantly have a patient, because i'm the one that's supposed to be learning and working. even on monday morning when there was only one patient on the floor...yep, i took her. last saturday i had a 20-something year old bio-med grad student who wanted to go natural. and by god she went natural for 24 hours before she had her 9 pound baby after pushing for 3 hours and 45 minutes. it was beautiful though. she and her husband were really great and i felt really comfortable and independent doing everything i needed to do with the delivery. except at the end the baby was having trouble getting rid of all the gunk in his lungs, so i was kind of worried about him but he ended up doing great. he had to go upstairs to the transitional nursery because he weighed so much though. little baby zachary tyler.
then my patient on monday morning was a physician from jefferson, and her husband was too. she had just finished her residency in plastic surgery and he had just finished in orthopedics. she was so smart and knowledgeable about everything but also had a lot of questions that i absolutely loved answering for her because it made me feel real. she had a baby girl named hailey...she probably pushed for like 2 minutes, seriously. it was the easiest labor ever. except when she almost hemmorhaged afterwards...yeah that was not fun. for some reason all my deliveries have something wrong with them, whether there is meconium (baby poop) in the amniotic fluid or the mom is bleeding afterwards or something. yesterday my patient was really hard too but she didn't deliver on my shift. that also happens a lot. i haven't actually gotten to do many deliveries.
i can't wait until OR orientation when i get to actually participate in c-sections and like hand the doctors stuff when they ask for it...like "scissors! clamp! forceps! knife!" WOOHOO!!
also i took the nclex today. :stabs herself in the eye: i thought it was going to be a lot different than it was. i thought it was going to be like a huge room with hundreds of people in there all at their own little computers and it would be really busy and crazy. well...it was a small office with 12 computers and there were like 3 people in there when i got there. so i was an hour and a half early...and i brought a book and my ipod so i could sit and wait for my appointment time, but the guy just like did my registration stuff when i got there and i was really rattled. i thought i was going to be able to sit and relax but nooo i had to just go and start! after i got fingerprinted and like my picture taken and crap, he sent me into the next room which seriously was like the room that the wizard is hiding in in the wizard of oz, and the dude in there looked like the fortune teller/guy who says "well that's a horse of a different color!" so that made me happy. also i'm sure it's his job to do this...but he made me so relaxed and comfortable...he was asking me about my job and my school and everything and i just liked him a lot. so thanks, bob.
then i went in and sat at computer #9 and took the test. and that is all i will say about it right now.
when i got home i felt weird just sitting around and not studying. i have been studying so much that i almost feel guilty now that it's over and i'm lounging around. hopefully it will have all been worth it.
so i have been working my ass off at work. this whole orientation thing is the real deal...not that i thought it would be easy, but it's been pretty crazy. i constantly have a patient, because i'm the one that's supposed to be learning and working. even on monday morning when there was only one patient on the floor...yep, i took her. last saturday i had a 20-something year old bio-med grad student who wanted to go natural. and by god she went natural for 24 hours before she had her 9 pound baby after pushing for 3 hours and 45 minutes. it was beautiful though. she and her husband were really great and i felt really comfortable and independent doing everything i needed to do with the delivery. except at the end the baby was having trouble getting rid of all the gunk in his lungs, so i was kind of worried about him but he ended up doing great. he had to go upstairs to the transitional nursery because he weighed so much though. little baby zachary tyler.
then my patient on monday morning was a physician from jefferson, and her husband was too. she had just finished her residency in plastic surgery and he had just finished in orthopedics. she was so smart and knowledgeable about everything but also had a lot of questions that i absolutely loved answering for her because it made me feel real. she had a baby girl named hailey...she probably pushed for like 2 minutes, seriously. it was the easiest labor ever. except when she almost hemmorhaged afterwards...yeah that was not fun. for some reason all my deliveries have something wrong with them, whether there is meconium (baby poop) in the amniotic fluid or the mom is bleeding afterwards or something. yesterday my patient was really hard too but she didn't deliver on my shift. that also happens a lot. i haven't actually gotten to do many deliveries.
i can't wait until OR orientation when i get to actually participate in c-sections and like hand the doctors stuff when they ask for it...like "scissors! clamp! forceps! knife!" WOOHOO!!
also i took the nclex today. :stabs herself in the eye: i thought it was going to be a lot different than it was. i thought it was going to be like a huge room with hundreds of people in there all at their own little computers and it would be really busy and crazy. well...it was a small office with 12 computers and there were like 3 people in there when i got there. so i was an hour and a half early...and i brought a book and my ipod so i could sit and wait for my appointment time, but the guy just like did my registration stuff when i got there and i was really rattled. i thought i was going to be able to sit and relax but nooo i had to just go and start! after i got fingerprinted and like my picture taken and crap, he sent me into the next room which seriously was like the room that the wizard is hiding in in the wizard of oz, and the dude in there looked like the fortune teller/guy who says "well that's a horse of a different color!" so that made me happy. also i'm sure it's his job to do this...but he made me so relaxed and comfortable...he was asking me about my job and my school and everything and i just liked him a lot. so thanks, bob.
then i went in and sat at computer #9 and took the test. and that is all i will say about it right now.
when i got home i felt weird just sitting around and not studying. i have been studying so much that i almost feel guilty now that it's over and i'm lounging around. hopefully it will have all been worth it.