Scrub In Baby!

3rd semester in Nursing school: Med/Surg rotation! After watching too many episodes of ER/OR dramas, I'm way excited to be on the floor rotating through same day surgery and the Operating Room. To prepare me for my first clinicals in the hospital, the program requires what they call "front loading" labs. These are mandatory labs that are 4 hours long. Missing any labs, especially front loaders, is not an option. They're actually pretty fun. Fridays 7:45-12 noon. First one, scrub in! Surgical Asepsis, it's actually really hard to get in all that gear in a sterile manner.

Surgical Asepsis Lab--I'm 3rd to the right--in the blue

Front loading lab #1 part II included: IV therapy: drink lots of fluids so your veins will be nice and plump, and eat a good breakfast. Watch the instructor, practice on Mr. arm, then pick your favorite class mate and poke around until you get blood return--what a happy day if you did because you only get one try. I didn't. I was bummed, no blood return for me. So I knew I'd have to go it to open lab, or try again in clinical rotation at the hospital on some lucky pre-op patient :) 

This is just for labs on Fridays. Thursday is clinical day 6 to about 3:30 in the hospital. Wednesday is Nursing Research and Scholary Inquiry, Tuesdays is Care of Adults with Acute and Chronic Illnesses, then Pharmacology. Mondays---no classes---but tons of prep assignments. Thank goodness for Mondays!!

All my books I use almost on a daily basis. Cody likes it
when they're all lined up like this instead of sprawled across
the desk- It just doesn't make sense to him that I would
possibly really need 10+ books open at one time. 

Me, I miss pathophysiology this semester, luckily Pharm includes some of that. I think I need a bookshelf for all my books--I use all of them--really, I do. Someday, in my house, I'm going to have gorgeous floor to ceiling bookshelves with all my favorite books, all organized like.