don't let that DVT turn into DRT!
I think I'm falling in love with Texas Medical Center. This place is just so amazing. I've driven around it before and whenever Joel comes in we drive in it and try to find new hospitals/areas we haven't discovered and always do. Now that I ride the UT shuttle every day, it's taken me more places/streets than I realized existed. I love how after a 3-4 lecture I can walk 4 blocks or so with friends down to Fannin where most of the restaurants are and get some lunch amongst a busy crowd of medical professionals. The only thing you have to watch for are the walk/dont' walk signs that give you literally 5 seconds to cross incoming/ongoing traffic. It's like, "Ok, come on... JUST KIDDING!" We've started to look like nursing school tards with huge backpacks running across the streets like excited little children. People know we're nursing students since we wear regular clothes. The Dental students wear light blue scrubs and the Med students wear scrubs and/or regular clothes but you can always distinguish between us from the way they present themselves.
I've made new friends here really fast. When you have to get at least a 75 on everything to pass you have baiscally become best friends with the person sitting next to you! I've also had to get used to learning an incredile amount of information in one week, not just memorizing, and trying to put it into use. So far I've learned my communication skills are lacking. Well, I've always known that... but now I really have to watch what I say to people/patients and be careful that it won't be taken in the wrong way. I didn't realize there were so many rules of "therapeutic communication."
That and charting. NOT CHARTED, NOT DONE! They realllllly, are pushing that into us. Basically a nurse's career is recording every little thing you assessed/measured/planned/implemented/taught/evaluated/and replanned/re-evalated on top of discharge planning, rehabilitation, and 83703 types of reports. I can't even record my own migraines for my Headache diary! I'm questioning my self-efficiacy right about now.
So I have to turn in my placement form of where I want to do my clinicals this semester. Since I live in the medical center I can easily do them at MD Anderson, St. Lukes, or Methodist. They are also offering a Precepted group at Memorial Herman in Memorial City where I am assigned a nurse and follow her around on her shifts but that means its various days of the week and could be 12 hours during the day or overnight.
I don't know if I can do that week's patient's care plan and continue to stay on top with my the rest of my studies. It's going to be too much. IT ALREADY IS TOO MUCH. ughhhhhhh.
I've already lost 10 pounds in like 3 weeks due to stress and I'm making myself ill. I really need to do something about my anxiety.
Watch me get shingles.
That's another thing. You know you are in nursing school when you think in the middle of lecture, "I think I have that!" Or in this case... will get.
I've made new friends here really fast. When you have to get at least a 75 on everything to pass you have baiscally become best friends with the person sitting next to you! I've also had to get used to learning an incredile amount of information in one week, not just memorizing, and trying to put it into use. So far I've learned my communication skills are lacking. Well, I've always known that... but now I really have to watch what I say to people/patients and be careful that it won't be taken in the wrong way. I didn't realize there were so many rules of "therapeutic communication."
That and charting. NOT CHARTED, NOT DONE! They realllllly, are pushing that into us. Basically a nurse's career is recording every little thing you assessed/measured/planned/implemented/taught/evaluated/and replanned/re-evalated on top of discharge planning, rehabilitation, and 83703 types of reports. I can't even record my own migraines for my Headache diary! I'm questioning my self-efficiacy right about now.
So I have to turn in my placement form of where I want to do my clinicals this semester. Since I live in the medical center I can easily do them at MD Anderson, St. Lukes, or Methodist. They are also offering a Precepted group at Memorial Herman in Memorial City where I am assigned a nurse and follow her around on her shifts but that means its various days of the week and could be 12 hours during the day or overnight.
I don't know if I can do that week's patient's care plan and continue to stay on top with my the rest of my studies. It's going to be too much. IT ALREADY IS TOO MUCH. ughhhhhhh.
I've already lost 10 pounds in like 3 weeks due to stress and I'm making myself ill. I really need to do something about my anxiety.
Watch me get shingles.
That's another thing. You know you are in nursing school when you think in the middle of lecture, "I think I have that!" Or in this case... will get.