YOU ALL NO THE RULES!!!
Hey! I actually have time to blog tonight, because I am a good girl and got all my work done! Yay. As a result, I am rewarding myself for the good work I have put into my journals tonight. Ok, I'm going to stop rambling; you all want to know what I did this week, don't you? No? Well....TOO BAD. Hahahaha, I tease. Anyway, I'll start with Tuesday.
On Tuesday, I was in the cardiac catheterization lab (or cardiac cath because spell check doesn't even recognize catheterization), so I'm just using cath for short. Anywho, while in the procedure room, you have to wear lead vests because there are x-ray machines that are running, thus creating radiation exposure. Before I stepped into the first procedure, one of the nurses asked me if there was any chance I could be pregnant. Without even missing a beat, I replied "Unless I'm the next virgin Mary..." But seriously....the COOLEST things I have seen in my life. On the x-rays, you can actually see the heart beating and the catheter being threaded to where it needs to go. I was just staring at the screen, eyes agape, almost drooling because it is just...incredibly fascinating. At the end of the day though, I also got to see a stint being put in!!! Now that was neat as well. Honestly....maybe thinking about doing something like this in the future. Let's see....I've now got my future career to possibly Med/Surg, Psych or Cardiac Cather lab. Decisions...decisions. Now as always, I've got lots to tell about today.
The unit I am originally assigned to was closed today due to a low census (their fancy terminology for there are just not very many patients to keep the unit open), so my partner (a fellow student in my class) and I moved to the Adolescent recovery center, or ARC unit for short. It was....interesting. Most of the adolescents were very friendly and nice, but some of them were just downright squirrely. The title of this post was actually written on one of the white boards in the unit; gave me a bit of a chuckle. But the most interesting part of today wasn't even in the ARC unit; it was a response to a code for a "psychiatric emergency" for one of the child patients. Wow. That's all I have to say. I have never seen so much pulling hair and screaming in my life...just from one child. And it made me sad, because I just can't help but wonder. The physician said it was possible psychosis, but I'm not so sure. I'm thinking there is something going on that she just isn't revealing to anyone. I just wonder what in the world has happened in this little girl's life that has caused her to act the way she did today. But we just don't know. And that's why I could never work in the children's unit.
Relatively short post tonight; I'm really tired and I've got to pack up for a weekend in Indiana for a friend's wedding! Enjoy and please...share your thoughts if you would like to. Cheers!
"Choose to have a good day today"
On Tuesday, I was in the cardiac catheterization lab (or cardiac cath because spell check doesn't even recognize catheterization), so I'm just using cath for short. Anywho, while in the procedure room, you have to wear lead vests because there are x-ray machines that are running, thus creating radiation exposure. Before I stepped into the first procedure, one of the nurses asked me if there was any chance I could be pregnant. Without even missing a beat, I replied "Unless I'm the next virgin Mary..." But seriously....the COOLEST things I have seen in my life. On the x-rays, you can actually see the heart beating and the catheter being threaded to where it needs to go. I was just staring at the screen, eyes agape, almost drooling because it is just...incredibly fascinating. At the end of the day though, I also got to see a stint being put in!!! Now that was neat as well. Honestly....maybe thinking about doing something like this in the future. Let's see....I've now got my future career to possibly Med/Surg, Psych or Cardiac Cather lab. Decisions...decisions. Now as always, I've got lots to tell about today.
The unit I am originally assigned to was closed today due to a low census (their fancy terminology for there are just not very many patients to keep the unit open), so my partner (a fellow student in my class) and I moved to the Adolescent recovery center, or ARC unit for short. It was....interesting. Most of the adolescents were very friendly and nice, but some of them were just downright squirrely. The title of this post was actually written on one of the white boards in the unit; gave me a bit of a chuckle. But the most interesting part of today wasn't even in the ARC unit; it was a response to a code for a "psychiatric emergency" for one of the child patients. Wow. That's all I have to say. I have never seen so much pulling hair and screaming in my life...just from one child. And it made me sad, because I just can't help but wonder. The physician said it was possible psychosis, but I'm not so sure. I'm thinking there is something going on that she just isn't revealing to anyone. I just wonder what in the world has happened in this little girl's life that has caused her to act the way she did today. But we just don't know. And that's why I could never work in the children's unit.
Relatively short post tonight; I'm really tired and I've got to pack up for a weekend in Indiana for a friend's wedding! Enjoy and please...share your thoughts if you would like to. Cheers!
"Choose to have a good day today"
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