The drug cards are for pharmacology class, which has proven a little easier than pathophysiology! I am enjoying it (never thought I'd say that) and it's going pretty well. Clinicals have actually turned into the funnest part of school. I dreaded them at first but I've gotten much more comfortable with the responsibilities I have and it's fun at times. I go to the hospital once a week and have my own patient for the day. I work with their nurse because there are some things I can't do -- anything IV related, anything related to meds except injections (don't ask me why!).
The clinical assignment takes a lot of my classmates 8-10 hours to do, sometimes longer. I'm not sure how long it takes me but it can be painstaking to list out meds when the patient has 30 of them, and you have to cover a lot of different factors (IE, name, class, action, therapeutic effect, contraindications, life threatening complications, dose, and nursing implications). That can take a LOOONG time. I've discovered, though, that if I work on the more creative part of the assignment first and do meds last it turns out much, much better. Otherwise by the time I'm done with meds and labs I'm just too tired of it to think of good care planning.
Life just goes around and round. I go to school in the mornings, Porter goes to work in the evenings, weekends (which don't always line up on the same days) come and FLY by, and the weeks and months seem to just fly. Aftasie keeps us happy, entertained, amazed, etc., (except when she wakes up Porter with raw eggs in bed that she took out of the fridge, then I'd say it's more like she keeps us on our toes and awake at all hours!)
Checking out the computer.
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| One of many messy breakfasts. I remember not caring how neatly I ate! (And some in the house might argue I still don't...) |
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| I dressed her up for halloween. |
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| Always liking to be in the picture and on the computer. |
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| Porter bought a ball cap and she came to me saying "Hat!" with it on her head like this :) |
