This week starts off the fourth week and it is a blizzard outside. Classes we're cancelled today and the school is closed tomorrow so I am catching up on organizing, finishing up clinical paperwork and catching up on much needed rest. This past weekend I did community and OB clinical rotations. In community, which I am finding that I love, took place at the American Red Cross. Our group of 10 went to a class to train on how to teach others, in the community, about donating blood and plasma. Our assignment is to go to 4 different locations, set up and present to a minimum group of 2 people, and discuss the importance of giving blood. We we're told that it is a shortage of blood donations so our instructor thought that it would be a good idea for us to start off within the community, teaching the importance of blood donations.
The next day, which was this past Sunday I was at OSF Medical Center for OB clinical rotation. I had a patient who was 23 weeks pregnant and had the Prune Belly Syndrome. It's a syndrome in which the kidneys, liver, or some organs don't develop well in the fetus; which causes the mother's belly to wrinkle up like a prune. I never heard anything like this before, but it was interesting to learn about it. My patient was also pregnant 4 years prior with the same complications, except the baby only lived 25 days. My heart went out to her and her husband because she expressed that she would do whatever it takes, this time around, to save her unborn child. During this clinical rotation I was learning more about how to do the paperwork and navigate through the hospital's computer system.
Im finding that I enjoy both my clinical rotations in OB and Community/Public Health Nursing. In community this is where the nurse gets out and interacts with different people and apply certain teachings to a community. Whether its teaching teens about obesity and eating healthier or doing cholesterol and blood pressure screenings. Its a feeling of gratification when a nurse is able to reach out and touch someone within the community and make a difference in their lives.
In the next couple of weeks my school is holding a blood drive and cholesterol screenings I will be back to discuss more on those experiences.
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- A Full-Time Nursing Student, A Blessed Child of God, A lover of humanity, A professional student in the school of life, who is enjoying the process of becoming a registered nurse through an accelerated BSN program. I enjoy exercising and a few of them are Rollerskating and doing Reaction Cycle Spinning classes. I love the way I feel after I do a spinning class. Intense Cardio does the body & mind good! Rediscovered an exercise thats a favorite childhood past-time of Hula Hooping! I'm also a Lover of old-school R&B, Hip-Hop (only a select few artists), Jazz & Gospel Music. Reading is my ultimate relaxation therapy. I love self-improvement books.... I'm a human-being thats a daily work in progress. Seeking healthy ways to grow mature spiritually, always learning new ways to stimulate my mind mentally, improve my body with exercise by; choosing to eat healthy foods that improve me physically, Improve the way I spend money by sowing & reaping financially, and being in-tuned while remaining in control emotionally! Im an over all wholistic LOVER OF LIFE!
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