Today was my second day of skill practice at school. I wish I didn't get so nervous.....because I start sweating like a dog and make stupid mistakes. I only had about an hour or so to practice today, and I wanted to get some time in working on the mannequin's and their vitals. Barb came and programmed it for me and told me to have it and come get her when I was done. I did good on pulse and respirations, but my BP was slightly off. I guess I'm letting the air out too fast, and I'm missing the systolic. So that in addition to nerves causing me my brain to mix up numbers, and I kept getting the wrong numbers!!
Luckily, I kept at it and she checked me off for my vitals. So half of my skills test is finished.....let me get an easy skill to demonstrate please oh please, good gracious god almighty!! I am feeling a lot better about it. I will still be going in the next two tuesdays to practice.....no harm in extra practice, right?
So....I got out of there really quick, so I went to update my address with the registration office, done! Then I figured I'd go to the health center to see if they could take me early for my blood draw and TB reading. The phlebotomist was so nice, I'm sad I forgot her name.....but she was so pleasant that I didn't mind she was about to draw out 3 vials of my blood from me.
However, my visit to the health center turned bothersome rather quickly. Another lady who didn't even introduce herself did my TB reading while the phlebotomist was getting ready. I asked her when I should schedule my next TB test, and she didn't like that apparently. She made it seem like it was a huge problem that I was doing my TB test now instead of waiting until classes start. I politely told her I wasn't told it would be a problem, as we don't have to go through them at all. She tried to say it wasn't a problem, but obviously it was, because what if ALL of the nursing students bombard the health center.....they won't be scheduled properly. I left feeling upset that I was given that type of attitude just because I'm weird and anal about getting these things done early.
She also told me I only needed a one step TB test since they already had a two step TB test on file from last year. I don't feel so good about this, because I don't see that ANYWHERE on the website or in information packet they gave us that this is acceptable. But, the Health Center IS in charge of clearing us for our health requirements for clinicals....so I'm sure they wouldn't give me incorrect information, but I'm pretty uneasy accepting it just yet.
So....technically my weekend is here, no work tomorrow!! WooHoo!! But I would really like to get a lot of these health modules out of the way, so I guess I'll be doing homework.
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