Just started my OB rotation...

[Plutonium261]

I just started my OB rotation last week, and what perfect timing, ironically my wife is due any day now with our first child! I'm so excited, and a little nervous. The best part about this so far though, is that everything we've learned in our couples newborn classes, and everything we're going over in my OB theory classes, has (in combination) helped tremendously. Some of the little things we've gone over just click a little better or a little easier while my professor (who's great by the way) is going over them in class or tutoring. Even better is that I start my peds rotation immediately after this rotation (as I believe not all but many nursing programs are like), which I also can't wait for, and think it will help out a little while entering this new world of raising a child. Pediatrics also coincidently is one of the main specialties that led me to nursing in the beginning. That and critical care. So as tough as I'm sure it will be, especially with raising a newborn, I can't wait for my peds rotation.

I've heard multiple times how hard the pediatrics rotation is, but how I look at it is, I've also heard, before every term, that "this term" or "that term" is the hardest term in nursing school. And though some of them may have been correct about a couple of these terms (thus far, intermediate med-surg was definitely a tough term), I've gotten through those terms and lived to talk about them. Haha. Everything/every subject is different for everyone, you can really only take what people say with a grain of salt (or I should say take the "glass half empty" kind of thinking with a grain of salt). By all means, listen to the alumni, the vets, and even the people who've just recently gone through it, but don't let negative comments get to your core, because you never know, something that someone else may have struggled with, or struggles with, you may shine in.

With that being said, if anyone has any words of wisdom, tricks of the trade, or ways of studying these dense specialties that have helped you, I'd love to hear them. Thanks!