My first two weeks

Hi everyoone! I started out clinical training with floating between treatment machine and the nurses station. I will do that until I reach my 40 hours at the nursing station. I am feeling really comfortable with leveling patients, seting up the room, and table controls, etc. Haven't driven the machines yet, but trying to get that going. My supervisor can tell that I set high goals for myself, but she doesn't want me to overwhelm myself too fast. I have already seen too emergencies..SCC and excessive bleeding. I love my pediatric patients, but it is definitely stressful because they try and sit still for the CT sim and VS but it is very difficult to make them understand why they have to sit still. I have a 3 year old boy who fell out of a shopping cart and the parents took him in to get checked and the found a mass in his brain and it has continued to grow so we are treating him. Hope everyone is doing well and can't wait to hear more stories from everyone!

Woops.

So my clinic has chart rounds every Friday at 9:15 and as a student I have to go even though the attending doctors don't really talk to me, and I don't think they realize I exist yet, and today was really boring and I fell asleep when they were talking about a patient. I woke up maybe a minute or so later because they were still talking about the same patient but it was pretty embarrassing because some of the resident doctors saw me doze off. Anyone else have anything like that happen so far?

Instructions on how to blog.

Ok friends, once you are signed into your blogger/google account (from blogger.com) you can simply click the "new post" blue button under "The Waiting Room" blog and you'll be able to write your own posts (only if you've accepted your author invitation after giving me your email). From there you can click on "view blog" and see your post and comment on other posts. If there are any other questions let me know!

Welcome!

Hey guys!

The blog is finally up (thanks a lot to Kyle since I had no idea how to set it up) so we now have a place to keep our chatter going. So let's get this discussion started. How was everyone's first week(s)?