So, I haven’t been able to write all this week since Monday because I’ve been running everywhere and doing everything this week. On Thursday I had my Health Assessment class and we had a test. I didn’t even know we had a test that day. I thought the teacher had moved the test to next week because she didn’t go over one topic in class, so I thought I heard her say that she was going to move the test for next week. Apparently, she didn’t move it, so she tested us on Thursday. It was easy though. We only had to do a complete abdominal examination on a classmate. After that, I went to the hospital with some of my classmates to start the pre-assignment for the clinicals. I started my care plan by studying my patient and writing his history on my care plan. I thought I was going to have trouble because right before leaving, the doctor told me that the patient was going to be transferred to another hospital, so he wouldn’t be there on Friday for me to examine him. I thought I was going to have to do everything over again with another patient. So, we came back to school for our fundamentals skills class, and she went over medication administration again. We only stayed for a short while listening to the explanation and asking questions. After that I went with some other classmates back to the hospital because I hadn’t finished my pre-assignment and I thought I needed another patient. Fortunately, when I got there, my teacher told me not to start over with another patient, but to do both patients in the same chart. So, now my care plan is all mixed up. One part belongs to one patient and the other part belongs to another one.
On Friday, I went to the hospital, and we already started the real job. We had to do a complete health assessment on a patient, document our findings, and help the care partner with the patient care. We also learned to do the glucose test for the diabetic patients. Each one of us got to do one glucose test on a patient. That was cool. After that, I finished writing up the information for my pre-assignment and I got home really late and really tired. It was a long day.
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