flu mist!

So this morning I had to wake up at 3 in the morning. Unfortunately my alarm clock didn't go off until I found out it was quarter to 4. I was 10 minutes late to where I was supposed to be at the gym. I wasn't in serious trouble or anything, but this is the second time I've been screwed by my alarm. I paid attention to what was wrong with it in the first place so I wouldn't have it happen again.

My whole platoon and the senior platoon gave flu mist intranasal shots from about 5-12:30. There were tons of soldiers, marines, navy and air force personnel. there were six people to a table and we'd get a bunch of people directed to us. People were moving fast, but the time seemed to move extremely slow. I took breaks in between for about 10 minutes eating donuts and oreo cookies while I was at it. When ever the crowds started dying down we cracked jokes for a minute or two until the next few people come in to our lanes. It was a pretty tiring day. But we got out at around 1pm. I took a nap afterwards

Exam 6

So today I took the 6th block of testing on the GI system. It went fairly well. I passed with my normal average 82%. I brought my ipod this time to pass the time. It was raining hard outside. After the last class that day, we ended up having an issue about the scores having to be recalculated because the server messed up on the other end. I already knew I passed so it wasn't a big deal. At first there were 13 failures, narrowed down to 7. Most people had issues regarding whether or not their answers were credited for. I haven't had any trouble with the tests, I go through them 3 times to check answers. We waited until around 5:30 to confirm the test scores.

Nine West

So I've been workin up in 9 west in the Med/surg ward. We have some pretty interesting patients. None of them are long term care. Most of them get discharged within 24 hours. It's a lot busier on this floor and there's a lot of things to learn. I haven't handed out medications yet. But there's still enough time before we leave that I can hand them out. I had one patient with hemodialysis and one patient out of post surgery this week. I got to work with a few RN's which was great help.

Exam 5

Today we had exam 5 on Respiratory system and medications. I left for the school really early. I was there at 6:45, studied for a little bit and started the test at 7:30. I only took 1 1/2 hours on the test. At some point Cpt Sugg one of my instructors helped me cheat. She said something about changing one of my answers coz she went over it in the review last night. I ended up passing with an 83. The rest of the day we had a a class on the Gastrointestinal system. I ate Burger King for lunch today and it didn't sit well in my stomach. I hadn't eaten any fast food or drank soda in 2 weeks. My diet has consisted of a cup of coffee and 3 square meals  throughout the day. 

September madness

Hello everyone,
Long time no blog. September has had a pretty good run so far. The beginning of this month I earned my citizenship at the USCIS. It's quite great after I've worked hard for it for 3 years now. It only took four months since the time I turned in my application. The interview was quite simple. I passed all the questions and was sworn in a few moments later.

The beginning of this month I raised the flag and put it down in the afternoon. My detail put up the huge 30" x 24" flag which was quite heavy and huge for the labor day holiday.

My class had the 4th exam on Cardiovascular system. It was a lot of information. However I passed the test which was quite simple in its nature. I had my final grade of 82. I was quite glad to get it over with since there were 8 failures and they had to wait 5 days to retake the test.

This morning I did a patient assessment with a partner. We were being graded for this and we did quite well. There were a few things we missed. We still ended up having a high score.

Saturday gayness

So this morning the entire class had to come in to school at 9 am. We were there for 4 hours working on printing certificates. I only had 2 things to do. I really didn't have to be there that long, but our supervisor would not let us go anywhere. We were there until 1. I was just there to help people out that didn't have the programs to print out  the certificates. I'm currently green on most of my education list.

After I left I slept until 5pm. Which made up for the 2 hours I could've laid in bed because I was out late last night with a couple of friends

Clinicals Intro

So, today's day 1 of clinicals which is basically an orientation of the hospital. I worked at the uptown VA. A pretty neat hospital with a lot of veteran. My group got there at 7:30. We took breakfast and went on upstairs to  start the tour. We went through different wards such as physical therapy, the rehab pool, and all the floors.

My group finished the tour around 11:30. After lunch we decided to study for our test on Tuesday. After that we started introducing ourselves. We finished at around 3 pm which was pretty good coz i like to finish the day at that time