For school we are required to go through a "check-off" (kind of like scholastic hazing) at the beginning of the semester. This includes performing several nursing skills in front of an instructor (who is predisposed to not like you) and not failing because not only will they make you feel totally incompetent (because you injected a needle at 40 degrees rather than the accepted 45), you'll literally fail the semester on the second day of school.
The skills are made up of anywhere between 15-25 steps each. There are 20 skills that you could possibly be asked to perform. So thats like an average of 400 steps to remember.
I feel like my brain is a water balloon only meant to hold 240cc (which equals 240 ml which equals 240 drams which equals 3600 gtt which equals 8 oz which equals blah blah blah...did I mention we have a whole separate test based on memorizing conversions?) and I'm at the point where it starts to get dangerously shiny and transparent the more water I pour into it and any second its going to burst open and become a big, wet mess (or in this case, my brains=everywhere).
So that's pretty much that.
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Good luck. You have such nice brains. It'd be a shame to have them spread all over the room.
Breathe in, breathe out and just remember:
-Don't touch anything blue, it is sterile
-If you do make yourself unsterile, call yourself on it before they do
-They may hate you but you are better than them and you know it
-You have been doing this stuff all semester, you got this
-Don't fret to much about picking the right needle, the hospital you end up working for will only stock like two
-After you are a nurse, you are only going to make like one out of ten beds, so you don't have to be that good at it
-Always check the armband in checkoff, but in real life I don't have the memory of the a gnat, and know that is Mr. Jones
-You will never have to take a manual blood pressure after you graduate, just take comfort in that now.
-The test is only designed to make the stupid fail, and we both know you are not
-Most foleys are put in in the OR, but it is always the fat, comatose, or drunk who need them, or the ER would have "found time" to do it. So it actually is a pretty useful skill.
-You are great
-You so got this in the bag
Good luck my friend.
I love it!!! Not the brain exploding part but how well you explain stuff. Funny:)
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