Random Ramblings

I am so happy to be almost finished with OB. We have our last lecture on it today with our testing on Monday. Not that it wasn't a fun and interesting rotation. I actually loved it. But it is another milestone conquered in the happenings of nursing school. We are left with Peds for the rest of the semester, and I am so very thankful to have completed that clinical rotation. We all know that caring for sick children can be very demanding. In fact, it is probably the parents that can make the experience even more difficult. I just know that I am not cut out to be a Peds nurse at all, ever.

Census is still down at the hospital, so it seems on the weekends anyhow. Or at least there haven't been too darn many critical patients. In a good, perfect world, that is really is a GOOD thing, right? But man does it ever make my paycheck stink. I need people to be sick enough to be in the ICU so that I can work and learn, don't they know this? It is times like this when I wish that I would have just stayed out on the floor instead of being a little hot shot and transferring over to the unit. I know I made the right decision for myself, just perhaps not my paycheck. I love working in the unit though, and I wouldn't trade the experience for the world.

What do you say to a fellow student who thinks that she is the know all to everthing, talks over you in clinicals, interrupts when the instructor is asking questions to answer the question that was asked of you? Do you just let her go on and make a fool of herself because she doesn't know when to shut up? What do you tell her when you are going to do some patient education, and it is her wish to follow you, knowing when she gets in there, she will take over and mark it down as her accomplishment? Well I let her talk over me in front of the instructor so that the instructor could see what she was doing, but when it came to my patient, I politely told her, "I think I am going to do this one by myself, thanks." Yeah, it pissed her off pretty good. She won't talk to me, heck she won't even barely look at me. I don't see how this is my problem anymore :) I know she is sensitive to matters like that, and I am sure that she took it personally when I said I wanted to deal with my patient by myself, but that is what we are supposed to do! I certainly didn't follow her into her room and interrupt her whole educational session with her patient. I know she just wanted everyone around to know that she knows everything. Well, now she can go bother someone else because I am sure she won't bother me anymore.

have to run to class in a few to get our last OB lecture. ciao.