Laboring patient is standing by bed, vomiting spasmodically all over floor. I support her shoulders in an effort to keep her from falling over. I am sort of holding her at arms’ length, trying to keep her upright without letting her puke on my shoes. I hear chuckling behind me, and whip my head around. [...]
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The wonders of technology
Posted in school on May 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So this is it
Posted in school on April 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday was my last day of school. Ever. (Well, unless I decide to become an NP someday, but that’s not even on my radar at this point). I walked across the campus after my test with a goofy smile on my face. I walked into the nursing school office with a grocery bag of obscenely [...]
Unexpected
Posted in school on April 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Nothing quite as wonderful as walking into a room, thinking I am going to help prepare a patient for an urgent c-section for fetal distress, only to watch in awe as, three minutes later, the mom delivers a healthy, squalling baby with Apgars of 8 and 9. Today was a good day. I wish all [...]
So glad
Posted in Motherhood, school, tired, work on April 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Do you like it here?” One of the nurses asked me in the break room yesterday. “I like it,” I said, and she glanced over at my preceptor with this amused look that said, “Your student is lying and is clearly not City Hospital material.” So I expounded on how I have signed up for [...]
Confessions of a sloth
Posted in Motherhood, school on April 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I read something interesting recently about how parenthood doesn’t automatically make us better people. (somewhere over here, don’t remember exactly where…) If we are selfish, lazy slugs before having a child, we are not automatically transformed the moment parenthood happens. This is definitely the case with me. I remember during my pregnancy, how I wondered [...]
Just showing up
Posted in budget, school on April 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Wow. I was hoping that the last few weeks of school (all of which are clinical, no more classroom stuff left to do) would be easy to get through. But I am finding myself getting really antsy, just knowing that all my classmates are pretty much done as of two days from now, and I [...]
Juggling babies
Posted in breastfeeding, school, tagged breastfeeding, school on April 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Okay, I had a lot of thoughts stewing around in my head this morning as I chugged my coffee, and now that I’m all caffeinated, I have received a phone call not to go to the hospital because my preceptor is calling in sick. I may as well get all these thoughts off my mind, [...]
