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I’m in my last 6 month of school. Sometimes it’s stressful. We are almost always in one of the ICUs or sometimes the ER so our patients are never really ‘well’. I still pick up shifts at the satellite hospital where Chris works. That pace is a lot slower, but I’m also a lot more…
We had clinic at the big city hospital the other day. I’d say about 75% of our clinical experiences are at this hospital.. it’s the hospital where Jeremy works. It’s always good to see him. Anyway. I was working in surgical ICU on this particular day. Surgical ICU is a good place for students because…
We’ve been having a lot of rain lately per usual, but for whatever reason, it seems to have a little more intensity behind it this spring. We have clinical scheduled on Thursdays and our class is split up and assigned various practice sites. One of our classmates jokingly asked if clinical ever got ‘rained out’….
Clinical is usually pretty boring. To be fair, I’m not sure how I’ll feel about a bunch of neophytes working under my license– once I get it. Most clinicals involve doing very mundane tasks under watchful supervision. It’s rare that something exciting happens. And if it does, I’m usually pushed aside for the more experienced…
My last shift at the hospital was….ummmm, interesting. Very interesting. It started around 2p, when I’m doing my rounds. I go into the room of a post-op patient. He’s struggling a little to breathe, but in his defense, he up moving around. I check his vital sighs and they are out of range. Heart rate…
We have this classmate. Since her last name is McDaniel and mine is Montgomery ,we are ofter placed in the same group. In every class someone has to be first and someone has to be last. Kate, our other friend Amanda, and I are first. As of now, all three of us are straight A…
“Hey. Do you want to go to El Jalisco again for lunch?” Kate asks. We are supposed to be studying gas laws, capillary action, density of air and water, and other science-y stuff when Kate asks me this seeming innocuous question. “You remember what happened last time?’ I responded without it trying to seems like…
ElizaMarie, future RT ElizaMarie, student RT’ Ummm hey, My name is ElizaMarie. All three are variations of an introduction I’ve use at the hospital just this week. I have a hard time speaking up when it’s needed. Idk why I’m like this but it’s been an issue my entire life. There are so many people…
I don’t like rules and I don’t always follow them but call it what you want to and sometimes RULES are just RULES, and these are the rules. The Rules 1. The Night Shift is a work of fiction. Realistic fiction. Fiction so real you may think it’s real. But fiction nonetheless. Even the main character,…