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i have a quick question for everyone. i am a 3rd year student going into my peds/ob rotation in the fall. i just found out today, that i have to get a central line put in because of medication that i have to get every 2 weeks on top of many different blood draws, and the doctors decided that it will be easier to put in a central line that poking me numerous times and leaving bruises and collapsing veins. my question is should i let my professors know about it? or should i keep it secret. you wont be able to tell because of the cut of our uniforms thank g-d, and i will be keeping it covered and clean, but should i let my clinical instructors know or not? my doctors told me today that it was up to me and i should be fine with everything i do, i just cant get it dirty. it still scares me because i dont want to get it infected. what would you guys do?

this is an amazing thread... my favorites: 1. OR/PACU 2. Oncology 3. ICU My least fav. 1. LTC 2. Rehab 3. Psyc

i am definitely doing the same thing right now. I am doing my nursing process report right now that includes a client profile, a gordons functional assessment, labs and medication reviews, and a concept map and 3 nursing diagnosis. I swear i cant concentrate today... so all nurses is keeping me off facebook, so i guess that is a good thing.... maybe?!?!

This semester is going to be different for me. Last semester for fundamentals we had class on mondays from 850-1050 and lab on tuesdays from 11-1 and clinical on wed from 8-230. This semester i have adults class on wed from 10-1230 and clinical tuesday and thursday 8-230 for 8 weeks (march-may) and then i also have gero- class on monday from 11-1 and clinical tuesday and thursday 8-130 (jan-march). I am kind of nervous about the adults because we dont have a lab with that class, and we never learned how to put in iv's or how to draw blood. I am going to be at a major medical center...and i dont want to look stupid. Also with my universtiy, you can choose to do adults and gero first or ped/ob... so there could be people in my clinical who are a semester ahead of me. I am so nervous...

for me i live only 20 minutes from campus. But for my clinical this semester i will be almost an hour on a good day, and with snow it might be about an hour and a half. we have to be there at 8 in the morning so that means i will be leaving my apt at 630 to make sure i find a spot in the hosptial parking and traffic. There are a few classmates of mine who live around me though so i think we are going to figure out something to do with carpooling.

My amazing this this week was that the first full day on the floor ever, we had someone pass away who was really sick. It was actually a very humbeling and amazing experience in itself. the family was relieved that the family memeber wasnt hurting anymore and passed away in his sleep. And my nurse and i got to prepare the body for the morge.... the first day i think i did pretty good at that one. No one else wanted to even come in and help or to see it. I know being a nurse it wont be the last dead person i see.. but it was wierd that my firsst day on the floor it was my first lol....

Hey Guys Quick question In my school we have to already be thinking about next semester. Since i am finishing up my sophmore level classes (first clincial) we have to pick out what we want to do next semeter in the begining of october. I am on a adult floor right now that deals wtih the gi and bariatric pts. What we are doing in clinical this semester is medications, surgical dresssing, ng tube, colostomy ect. We dont do anything with inserting ivs or anything. So with that said what would you guys do. We get to choose the order that we take the classes we take, which is ob/peds, or adult/gero. which would you take first and why? I am so confused because they dont tell us which to do first. Thanks so much for the help