Slept from 11 am to 2 pm today after pulling the first night shift. I don't feel amazing, but I feel rested enough. At least the first night wasn't crazy -- most of my patients went to bed after 10 pm meds and only one was febrile. I'm sure I'll have nights when it'll be a bit worse, but for a first night, that wasn't horrible.

Saw a left radical mastectomy, laproscopic cholecystectomy, and laproscopic gastric bypass today. The two lap procedures were performed by the same surgeon. For the cholecystectomy, he did his part in 35 minutes, boom, done. The bypass was done in about an hour ( Read more... )

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One of the school organizations sent out an e-mail inviting people to make pink ribbons in two weeks for Breast Cancer Awareness month ( Read more... )

There are days when I feel as if I'm one of the townspeople watching the Emperor walking around naked in "The Emperor's New Clothes." I can see that something's wrong, but I don't want to say anything for fear of being called too judgmental or not minding my own business. It's even trickier when you're a (student) nurse and are constantly being ( Read more... )

1) Brought my health forms and proof of US citizenship to school. Since going to Downstate is literally a 20-minute bus ride, it's easier to bring things over myself and make sure somebody received and logged them rather than sending it by the USPS. I even have to go back there tomorrow since when I mentioned that I didn't have the orientation ( Read more... )