eomLPN2016

Yes I truly empathize: many years ago as a CNA, one client of mine died midway during his bedbath. I even remember the "death rattle" I heard the morning prior. I finished the bed bath and dressed him up to show my proper respects. Importantly, you held his hand until the end.

Yes that's true...I believe every new stressor with school augmented for 2 weeks until I had to release! I left lab twice that morning to go week on the bathroom by myself!! Even contemplated leaving early. But I went back in, performed sterile technique, catheterized my "patient", collected that urine and documented smoothly!!

I get pretty uptight during skills lab when I don't get it right the first time. In my mind, if I stink in lab trainong, then I'll stink during the actual rotations!!

I appreciate that! It's been a new dimension for me as far as learning. Unlike memorization in anat&phys, the approach for the PN program is intensive and all conceptual. Total culture shock..yet I can tell a difference after 7 lectures in my critical thinking skills. I want to go back to my home health care background, assisting senior citizens. My confidence level was at zero because I felt other students caught on much faster than I. What kept me going was my perfect father insertion skill! But I panicked over heel wraps!!!

I need a moment to vent. These first 6 days of clinicals have truly been challenging. All that I thought I knew was knocked down one-by-one. Today, I just broke down and sobbed while practicing sterile gauze wrapping. Never before have I felt so lost, especially when others carried on. The day got better as I passed catheterization procedure. Anyone else felt on edge during skills lab?