So work has been going especially well this week. I don’t know whether its because they placed me on a floor with all new and younger nurses so I’ve been getting along with everyone very well, or because I’ve been very busy. 

But yes, I was placed on a new floor (They change me depending on where I am needed) All the nurses on that floor are either new grads or graduated last year. So they’re all pretty close to my age. I enjoy talking with them about school, and they’ve been giving me little tips about what NOT to do after graduation (This one new nurse explained that her patient was on a tele and something went wrong on it so she went to go check, but when she went in, her patient appeared unconscious so she called a rapid response and it wasn’t until after calling the code did she realize that the patient was just sleeping and had pulled a cord loose lol)

I’ve also been pretty busy on the floor. I had 3 patients with C Diff and 4 MRSA patients. So I spent all day gowning up and down and scrubbing my hands. It was enjoyable though. I got to work with a lot of different patients and talk to them about how they are doing. 

OH! There was also this very cute guy on the floor who was a year older than me haha. He was sweet but I know hospital procedure :/ Too bad haha. 

Hope everyone is having an enjoyable summer so far!

YOU KNOW YOU’RE A NURSING STUDENT WHEN:

1. You’re walking around looking like a marshmallow in your stiff, unstructured, stark-white scrubs.
2. You are more excited about drawing blood than all the vampires in Twilight put together.
3. Prepping an IV piggyback is fun.
4. You’re more excited about giving shots than you are taking shots, and your non-nursing friends don’t get it…
5. People look at you weird when you throw medical terms into your daily conversations.
6. You’re banned from talking about your day at the dinner table because you’re family gets grossed out 
7. Getting to wear colorful scrubs for the first time is the highlight of your year!
8. You check on your patient every 20 minutes with “How are you feeling now?” and “Is there anything else I can get you?” until they’re almost sick of you.
9. You perform physical assessments on your family: listening to lung sounds at every cough, bowel sounds with an upset stomach, and every time someone has an ache you ask them to rate it on a scale from 1-10.
10. Consequently, you’ve become the “resident nurse” at home and you’re now expected to be able to answer questions about mystery diagnoses and know how to treat every ache and pain.
11. You volunteer to clean up and bandage your niece/nephew’s boo-boos and owies.
12. You try to diagnose all kinds of symptomatology based on the chapter you just read – and you think you’re coming down with every disease in the book, including the mental illnesses.
13. Sadly, every time there’s a code-blue, even though you’re really scared and anxious, there’s still a small part of you that is excited to see what happens.
14. You try to convince your friends to go into nursing.
15. The night before clinical you’re so anxious you can’t get a decent night’s sleep, and until you’re 2 hours into your shift your stomach is in knots.
16. You can take a morning break, but you don’t want to because you might miss out on some big experience.
17. You’ve become a professional vital-sign-taker (even if you constantly check to make sure their within normal limits!).
18. And a professional accu-checker.
19. You watch Grey’s Anatomy and Nurse Jackie and comment through the whole thing about how that would NEVER happen in real life.
20. You vent to your family about how overwhelmed you feel with all the papers due and tests to study for, but for some reason, you wouldn’t trade it for any other career out there.

So I’m finally done for summer! Finals killed and I pretty much lived in the library for 2 weeks. To make it better my laptop died in me so I’ve been trying to keep up on my tumblr from my phone (which is hard).

Anyway, my med surg II final was 25% of my grade and covered 15 chapters. It was difficult to say the least. I spent weeks studying for it and reading my book. If any of you guys have the Iggy book or have seen the Iggy book, you know what a pain it is to read! But after this entire year, I feel like I’ve read a good majority of the book and its a solid 2000 pages haha. I ended up getting an 80 on my final with an overall grade in the class of an 85. I’m happy with my grade, its a B!

My other nursing class I somehow pulled a 90 on the final with an A- in the class overall.

Math was my weak point this semester. In my school were required to take an upper level stats class for our program, however….I suck at math. I managed to get a B- in the class with hours of studying. I’m happy to be done.

So now I’m relaxing for the summer until my pharm class starts up. Wish me luck in it and ill be posting my journey through pharm for you guys.