Well so in case you haven't heard I am now working as a CNT-Clinical Nurse Tech at a local Hospital. I started training/Orientation on Monday. The first two days where filled with the usual BS, so whatever. Today we were in a unit and assigned patients. A CNT is basically an aide but I think we do a few extra things and the nurses on the floor show ( Read more... )

All I have to say so far today is that my clinical gifts today were a colostomy bag and gigantic swollen scrotum on my patient this morning. Mucho Mucho fun. I HATE empting colostomy bags they stink awful. Hugs and Kisses I must study for exams!
Ivy

I found this on a nursing lj, it is super funny and true ( Read more... )

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If you wish to view grainy photographs of my first completed sewing project please go to: http://timgouin.tripod.com/ivys_sewing/Read more... )

10 Reasons to Date a Nursing Student:

1. White scrubs are see through
2. We are clean
3. We don't gag
4. We know your body inside and out
5. We know mouth to mouth
6. Two words: sponge bath
7. We know how to penetrate things
8. We have restraints and we're not afraid to use them
9. We always have a rubber on hand
10. We can go all night

So yes I am still alive and exhausted. I think the stress of impending final exams might kill me. Sometimes I hate my sub-conscious and the horribly real dreams I have. But now it is the month of May. A lovely month for many reasons in my world. Some of my favorite people were born in May. I love spring time and especially loved Traverse City in ( Read more... )

From the Record Eagle

Mar 30, 3:47 PM EST

Mysterious dog deaths rattle southeast Michigan community

By SARAH KARUSH
Associated Press Writer

SUPERIOR TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) -- First there were piles of skinned animals, mostly foxes and coyotes, which turned up on the edges of dirt roads in this semi-rural community outside Ann Arbor. Though gruesome ( Read more... )

http://kevan.org/johari?name=Theo_estrella (Strengths)

http://kevan.org/nohari?name=Theo_estrella (weakness)

So go do it for me........

So I can officially stick people in the hospitable with needles (Sub-Q and intradermal). Yesterday I gave a bladder irrigation to my patient that has a foley catheter. I gotta study........