October 23rd,
2012
To My Fifth Week of Nursing School,
I can't seem to confidently and precisely measure blood
pressure as I would like. My simulation professor said I have good technique,
but I'd rather be more precise and within the 2 mmhg required for next week’s
midterm evaluation. I'm debating on getting a better stethoscope to see if I
could hear the blood pressure pulses clearer and get a better read. I decided
to skip out on Pathophysiology lecture this week because I wanted more time to
study for the Professional Nursing quiz. I ended up doing better than I thought
on the quiz, so maybe skipping wasn’t such a bad idea? Unfortunately now I have
about 6 hrs of lecture podcast to catch up on for the Pathophysiology midterm
in 2 weeks. I also ended up not going to the Making Strides for Breast Cancer Walk
as I had previously planned because I wanted to spend more time studying for
today's Adult and Elder midterm. I went into the test nervous and tired and
came out wishy-washy and tired. It seems this is a consistent state I fall into
when it comes to exams
I've noticed that no matter what I
just cannot sleep the nights leading up to an exam. Since we have had at least
one exam every week, several nights I'm only been "sleeping" for 3 hr
intervals. Maybe, it's because I’ve started drinking tea and diet coke in addition
to my everyday coffee. My increased caffeine intake and anxiety over tests is
wearing me out. I wouldn’t say I’m stressed over the difficulty of the material
covered in our program, but it’s has more the accelerated aspect of the program
that is difficult. I can’t seem to catch my breath. It’s kind of crazy, but
even though the work is piling up and my subconscious is keeping me awake, I don’t
believe I am consciously freaking out just yet.
In on campus clinical we went over
medicine administration and learned how to give subcutaneous/intramuscular
injections on dummies. I was excited to do injections because I felt like this
was my territory, being diabetic and giving myself 3+ injections per day and
all. Surprisingly I learned something new! I had no idea that drawing air into
the syringe and injecting the air into the vial would create a pulling pressure
to fill the syringe to the needed dosage. Of course adjustments for air bubbles
need to be made, but overall the technique was eye opening. Unfortunately it
doesn't seem to work with my insulin syringes. I think it might have to do with
the fact that my syringe is much smaller than the syringes available in the lab.
I'm disappointed because I found that I won't actually be allowed to give
injections in the hospital setting until next semester after the dosage
calculation exam and enrollment in pharmacology. Bummer…
Goodbye Fifth Week
of Nursing School,
Clos3tGirlyGirl
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