Pediatrics- 4 weeks

Daily Schedule: Lecture on Mon. and Tues. from 8am - 2pm
                           Wards on Weds., Thurs., and Fri. from 6:30-2:30

Actual Daily Schedule:  No real change from what is posted above.

What to wear: Scrubs.  It's good to have an extra shirt if you happen to be the recipient of any projectiles

What's in my pockets: Brains ( a tool to organize your day- the one in your head is good to have too), Assessment and medication sheet, pens, band-aids, granola bar.

Patient notes you'll be asked to write:  assessments and safety notes.

What to study:  I have been spending most of my time on the pulmonary unit.  I've been reading a lot about pediatric respiratory issues, pediatric interventions in a kid-friendly way.  Of course, all systems.

A few unforgettables along the way:  sitting in on a cranial reconstruction, seeing a patient with right lung agenesis (born with only one lung)

Curious things other students do:  1. text messaging- which I find is unprofessional. 2. talking to patients like they are adults. 3

I am tired exhausted of school.  The amount of information that is thrown at us is ridiculous.  I am so over this.

Row your Boat

After getting moved in to the new house, battling bronchitis, keeping up with patients on the ward and studying I was more than ready to call it quits.  Instead,  this past weekend a I dragged a friend with me and we went to the reservoir for National Learn How To Row Day.  The day was humid, steamy, and rainy.  After being briefed on the parts of a boat and some practice on the ergs we hit the water.   First on the barge and then on an eight-seater.  I was loving the latter until my seat came of the track and I couldn't do anything but just sit there.  Both times I was port side and I'm already comfortable with it. 
I must have done well enough.  I received an e-mail applauding my "Olympic-caliber" rowing.  I'm sure everyone got that e-mail though.  Who knows, I'm still young enough to go for Gold. 
An in effort to preserve what little sanity I have left I joined a running club that meets early in the morning on the weekends.  It is a 16 week program so it will take me into the better part of the fall semester.  I am looking forward to changes and seeing what is in store for me as these days go by.