Surviving

I survived my first two days in clinicals! OK, sure they were just lab days but they were long (12 hours in a lab/classroom setting is killer!) and I had some wicked strep on the first day. I went the  first day with a 100 F fever when I was on tylanol (I took a short break to visit my PA who told me a bad case of strep).  Zombie walking through my fist 12-hour day actually made the second one a lot easier. It went by a lot faster and I was actually involved in classroom discussion, since I was in a fever fog the first day and was feeling like a Typhoid Mary. I shouldn’t have even been there, but there was no way for me to make up the hours. Overall we worked on communication techniques, basic vitals, lifting and transporting, and more practice on focused assessment. Next week: Shots, bathing and hospital orientation.

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