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<\/a> For some clinical groups from my cohort, they’ve been alternating day shifts and afternoon shifts? My group, not so much. The first week we met up at 9am. It was blissful<\/em> as I actually got to sleep in (!) as I normally have to be at school at 8:30. After that, we met up earlier (7am). Next week, which is also the first week that we’ll be at the hospital two days a week, is when we get there at 6:30am (or rather, 0630 – everything in military time!) and we get to\u00a0 participate in rounds. I’m excited for it, but also apprehensive. It’s two days a week (!) in clinical, but it also means that we’re kind of “done with” sim lab for this term. The sim lab is great, but I like actually getting to talk to real patients<\/em> so much more. That said, I still have skills lab, where the dolls aren’t as intricate (no bowel sounds, no heart beats, no pulses, no lung sounds) and cost a lot less. Which is probably why we’re allowed to interact with them without much supervision during open lab time [1. For the clinical skills class, we’re required to do a minimum of 3 hours in the open lab. I’ve done 2.5 so far.].<\/p>\nTwo days a week in clinical means:<\/p>\n
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- More patient research to do on Monday nights<\/li>\n
- I get to be with the same patient for two days in a row<\/li>\n
- Get to build more of a rapport with my patient, and my assigned nurse<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
I’m excited thought. Nervous, but oh so excited.<\/p>\n
This weekend I’ve done a lot of school work and studying. I finished a paper last week, but took a few days away from it before editing it\/proof reading it as best I could before submitting it online. They don’t use TurnItIn (which I hate<\/em> because it picks up the stupidest phrases and thinks you plagiarized from someone; that and my old school would require us to use TurnItIn twice<\/em> which means the second time around, it thinks you plagiarized 99% of your paper), which is fantastic. But it’s also this weird uploading system. You upload it, and then you have to press submit again in order for the file to be properly uploaded\/sent to the instructor’s inbox. That said, my instructor is a complete and utter failure at using computers. So who knows how long the turn around time for that assignment will be…<\/p>\n
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