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Life Of A Male Student Nurse

http://lifeofamalestudentnurse.blogspot.com/

This blog chronicles my decision to take up a career in the medical field after spending the previous seven years behind a desk doing sales work. The school is hard, the time away from home is significant, but it all work out in the end (I hope.)

• Added on: Jun 22nd, 2008
• Country: United States
• Language: English

• Author: Rick Williams
• Listed in: Medicine Natural Health
• Tags: school Healthy student nursing clinical student nursing

Recent Posts

• Apothercary System Sucks!

  Posted on Saturday November 28th, 2009 at 15:40 in quiz, IM, vaccination, medications, iv, drug calc

  I can't believe it, but I passed my drug calculation quiz!The drug calculation quizzes suck. Badly. It's not that the math is difficult, it's just tricky. I got a 90% on the test. I correctly measured all injections, reconstitutions, and just regular...

• Awesome Video Explaining ABG Analysis

  Posted on Friday November 20th, 2009 at 13:46 in abgs, fluid balance, acid base

  This is an awesome lecture talking about a simple way to analyze and interpret ABGs! Love this lecture!...

• H1N1 Vaccination Madness (and grade update!)

  Posted on Friday November 20th, 2009 at 12:45 in Students, stress, test, IM, finals, vaccination, clinicals, nursing class, h1n1, skills lab

  The H1N1 clinic we held was a success, however, about 3,000 people were anticipated and we only immunized roughly 1,000. I probably did 50 vaccinations myself, thus removing any and all nervousness about giving intramuscular shots! I joked that I was...

• Skills Lab Down, Waiting for Care Plan Result

  Posted on Saturday November 14th, 2009 at 10:01 in autism, test, IM, clinicals, h1n1

  Well, this week was a weird clinical.My patient was autistic and he was admitted for pneumonia. One of the employees from the facility the patient lived at was sitting with him the entire clinical experience.Very interesting this guy was. Here's a sa...

• Graded Care Plan Due Tomorrow

  Posted on Monday November 9th, 2009 at 13:23 in work, Students, jokes, drugs, stress, hospital, glucometer, clinicals, nursing class, preassignment

  I've got a graded care plan due tomorrow. This is a very important part of my lab grade. My lab grade is calculated as follows:Skill Lab Exam #1Skill Lab Exam #2Skill Lab Exam #3Skill Lab Exam #4Graded NCP #1Graded NCP #2I've done three exams so far ...

• Alcohol Withdrawal is a Bitch

  Posted on Monday November 2nd, 2009 at 09:26

  I just had my first experience with an elderly alcholic (of many, many years) detoxing after a surgery and in the rehab hospital. Not one I'll likely be forgetting...In addition to attempting to get up even though he was unable to stand without assis...

Comments & Reviews

This blog is currently rated a 5.00 out of a possible 5 based on 1 comment.

Peter McCartney

10 - Taking into account all that he has gone through, such as a career change and the taking up of nursing, Rick deserves a 10 out of 10! Good luck with your studies.

Posted: July 5th, 2008 | More Reviews From maccasenior | Report This Comment

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