Sunday Lab

It is 5:45 in the morning.

I just put a sour-cream streusel coffee cake into the oven.

At 8:00 my practical nursing life begins with our very first hands-on Lab day. Yes, school on Sunday... you didn't think they called it accelerated and only required school from Monday to Friday every week did ya? Oh good.

Following two full days (8am - 8pm) of lab I have my first clinical placement... I believe it is two days on the ambulatory surgical unit (out-patient surgery)... starting IVs, taking histories, vitals, etc... I'm a little nervous on the whole vein puncture thing... but its a skill I want to have and that I want to be VERY VERY good at. I know what its like to have a nurse who can't find a vein and it sucks... I don't ever want to be that nurse.

Many of my classmates come from all over the place. One is from Arizona and several are from MN and IL and other such states, and they all had to travel yesterday, most are staying in a hotel or the dorms on campus, neither of which provide the comforts of home and so... yes... I am making a coffee cake to bring for breakfast because that's just how I am, thank you very much.

I suppose I could have gotten up and gone for a run instead... hrmm... oh well, next time. ;)

Wish us all luck!!

Posted by Lexy at January 6, 2008 03:42 AM