...to becoming an RN.
This is my last semester in nursing school and we are
starting all the critical care.
My greatest fear was the ol' IV push.
You use the port closest to the patient to push medications
straight into the blood stream very slowly (sometimes over 2-5 minutes).
Reactions happen pretty quickly (if there are going to be any).
The words "calculate correctly" and "or else death" come up a lot in this semester... :0
which is why we only give meds with our instructor or our nurse.
Yesterday I gave my first IV push!!! No reactions,
the patient tolerated it well and it helped control her pain! :D Yayyy!
whew.
It's all about (safely) facing those fears!!!
Here's an example of what it looks like
(though this is a flush with normal saline- we do that before and after pushing a med)
Photo from this blog
I'm super excited to be in this semester.
Because we'll be graduating soon, they really emphasize how we
are the nurse and should be providing total patient care.
It's good!!
So... I might be a lil' preoccupied with this topic for a bit.
I'll try and mix it up some ;)
Off to study hemodynamics and septic shock :D
xx,
Nicky
8 comments:
so cool. You are SO born to nurse. I could never, but I totally admire "your kind" :)
congratulations! You're going to be great! I've had some terrible IV insertions - the worst was a lady nurse who was joking around, saying "stat" all the time, she tried to get a paramedic to do it, and he (in front of me) said, he wasn't confident and didn't want to do it...and she was all "it's easy, you'll be fine". He refused, then she tried it, and totally missed any veins, once, twice, thrice. She got in big trouble with the doctor - not for the bad IV but for forgetting to tell me that I wasn't meant to drink or eat anything (I had an emergency appendectomy). BUT you won't be like that!!!!!
congrats! you are gonna do great, I would love to have you at my bedside, smiling, maybe cracking a few jokes. The few times I've been at the hospital, the nurses have been amazing. When C. cut his finger in Cali last year, the nurse was so funny and sweet and comforting (and didn't treat me like I was super silly for crying and crying). Not only was she great at her actual job, she made both of us feel at easy, and explained things in a way we could understand. After that experience I have had such respect for folks in that field. I'm so happy you're one of them. I'd love to hear more on this topic.
you will be the best nurse in the world. i am terrified of having blood drawn and have gotten a little more used to it, especially because of one lady at the lab at the hospital where i've gone. she is so sweet and funny and talkative and down-to-earth, and talks to me about my pregnancy and my hair and any other subject until i'm done! i still make darin come too though :) anyway i could just picture you being that fun, easy to talk to, wonderfully relaxing person making the patients feel that much better about whatever predicament they are in. and i'm with milla, i'll hear as much as you'd like to post on this subject! i couldn't do it either but i sure admire and respect you nurses!
you're almost done! i'm so excited for you! i think it's awesome that you will have a career that you actually like, which isn't the case for so many :D
Way to go Mama! Brigit's recent post really made me think about mothers and careers and everything. You are awesome for doing this for yourself and your family. It's so much work too, going to nursing school, I'm proud of you for pulling it off :-)
That's so awesome Nicky! It must have been such a rush to have faced you fear and pulled it off and to have actually helped someone in the process, everybody wins, yay! You are going to be such a wonderful nurse!
Awesome Nicky!
You will be wonderful.
As for me, I don't like needles but really admire nurses and I love it when I feel comfortable and safe in their arms ;)
ps. I had plasmapheresis over two weeks a couple of years ago - that was Nasty! So hopefully that never happens again!
xoxo
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