I have 5 more weeks of clinical and I'm using every inch of my positive energy to get me through!
It has not been a good semester, in case you couldn't tell by my excitement for it to be over.
My first day. Clinical instructor says "Be here at 0645." I show up at 0645. Clinical instructor says "You were supposed to be here at 0615." Okay, then.
Clinical instructor calls me on her office phone for some information. I think it's her cell phone. I save the number as her cell phone and proceed to spend the next 5 weeks texting her office phone number during clinicals. She wonders why I'm not calling her to give meds and do skills. I can't figure out why she isn't responding to my texts in a timely fashion.
I take home paperwork on my patient, and in my hurry at the end of the day, I forget to cut off the patient's name from the MAR.
Then I hand it in that way to my instructor. That landed me with points off my assignment, a paper on HIPAA, and 4 Unsatisfactories for the day. If I get one more, I fail out of the program.
I forgot a due date and ended up getting a big, fat 0.
Today I decided to be AMAZING in simulation lab. I studied. I prepped. I obsessed. And then I did almost everything I was supposed to do. Except I got so caught up in what I was doing, I forgot the people watching couldn't tell what I was doing (like assessing, which was the majority of this scenario) and didn't think to yell out things like "I'm doing the Glaskow Coma Scale! I'm checking for allergies!" So instead of credit for what I did, I got nothing. Oh, and I referred to the mother of the patient as "mom," instead of by name. I didn't even realize I did it until I watched the video. But apparently that's a cardinal sin.
That landed me with points off my assignment, a paper on HIPAA, and 4 Unsatisfactories for the day. If I get one more, I fail out of the program.