Ahhhhh, remember ER when George Clooney and Juliana Margulis were on it... I haven't watched that show in YEARS but used to be a devoted fan.Anyway, my evening in the ER wasn't quite as glamorous but it was a lot of fun! It was busy and the time flew by. Compared to how time creeps by on Med/surg it was great! I got to do stuff to. This is very very important in nursing school. I even STARTED AN I.V.!!!! How cool is that! The first one I tried I didn't get in the vein. It rolled away when I tried to get in. The second one I got in even though it was a small vein on a lady who has had LOTS of I.V.s in her life (She was a kidney transplant patient. Not sure what was wrong with her last night but I think it was congestive heart failure on some level.) It was a little nerve wracking to think I was going to subject someone to my inexperience but it has to be done! I also got to start a Foley catheter. That was much easier than I thought it would be. It was on a sweet old lady who was very confused and complaining of fulness in her abdomen. The doctor thought she was very dehydrated and wanted a foley to see if she had any urine at all. Within a few seconds of starting the foley we drained about 350ml from her. No wonder she was uncomfortable. Poor thing. I also hung a bunch of I.V.s, hooked them up to the I.V. pumps, gave I.V. push medications and gave a suppository. Not as yucky as I thought it would be. Another thing that was cool was seeing various disease processes that we've talked about in class play out in real live patients.
Overall, it was a huge relief to experience a form of nursing that i found interesting, exciting and challenging because my clinical experiences so far have rarely met those criteria.
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