Let's backtrack...
So last Thursday (Oct 2nd) was eventful. I woke up at 5 AM to study for my pharmacology test at 7:30 AM. I was straight trippin yo' about this test. It was like impossible to memorize all these drugs, how they worked, what side effects would occur, what patients I wouldn't give the drug to, what I would need to teach my patient about the drug, etc. I had to know like 30 drugs plus a ton of other crap. I took the test and I actually got B+!! But now I'm annoyed because somehow I am getting an A- in Pharmacology (the hardest class of the semester) and a B in Essentials of Nursing (the 'easiest' class of the semester) which is mostly theories of nursing. Ugh...I am just more of a textbook person.
After class, I had to get ready for work. Yuck. I really didn't want to go because the evening we had a nursing ceremony that they said is equivalent to the med school's "White Coat Ceremony." We don't get a white coat, but it is a ceremony that celebrates our choice in nursing and welcomes us to the world of nursing along with all of our classmates. I really wanted to go to it because I felt I had earned it. Because I did. And my nursing buds were all going to. I was at work and kept telling my co-worker about how I wanted to to the ceremony and how I didn't know how I could keep working. I didn't have time for it, I have enough money saved up for the year, and there were still a lot of opportunities I wanted to take advantage of and work was getting in the way. To make a long story short, they let me leave work and I have quit my job. I got to go to the ceremony, got my nursing pin, and took a class picture. Yes, it's a tad gay, but it was fun!
Afterwards, I went to the football game against Oregon State. The game was so close and I was in the 15th row of the student section with all of my buddies. The game was insane. Each 1st and 3rd down was insane and every time we got a touchdown people would go crazy....literally. I never realized how much I loved football, but I got in the middle of a mosh pit and hands were flying everywhere and well...I got a black eye from someone flailing. It was awesome. Then when we won in the last minute, me and my friend ran to the first row where the stadium wall was. I really wanted to rush the field but the drop from the stands to the grass was like 10-15 feet. So I turned to this random guy and said "Hey, you wanna jump down and then catch me? " *bat eyelashes* "Okay!" he said. He jumped down and then caught me and I ran onto the field hugging my football player friends and screaming at the TV cameras. I guess I didn't actually make it on TV but it was the best football game ever. Man oh man, the BYU vs Utah game is going to be crazy and I expect to get another black eye.
This week in clinicals I learned how to give injections. Yesterday, I worked in a clinic and gave tons of flu shots. Giving it to older people is easssssyyyy. The needle just slides through our skin like butter, and many people told me it was the easiest shot they had gotten and I was actually really good!! BUT...the worst thing I have had to do in my nursing career thus far is giving two year olds shots. I can't even explain how hard it is to jab a needle (the same size needle we use on adults) into a little kid's arm. Especially, when they are almost as adorable as your own nieces and nephews and hug you first. Then you have to pin them down and stick it in. I dreamed about it last night and the scream from little kids has utterfly terrified me. I don't think I will be working in Pediatrics after all.
While I was at the clinic, some medical assistant students came in. They were rather large and rather rude to me. These are the things they said to me:
"You're a nursing student? Oh man, nurses don't know how to give injections. Everyone says you guys are the worst and people always request MA's to do it."
(By the way, the next thing I knew a patient sat down and I gave them a shot. The patients said "Hey I didn't even feel that!) Booyah!
"Oh you guys are studying pharmacology? Yeah, we do too, we have a different book but we learn the same stuff."
"We get to do the same thing as RN's pretty much."
Mostly I just smiled and brushed it off because I knew they were just self-conscious, but I have found on numerous occasions that MA's or nursing students from SLCC or Weber try to challenge me to see who is better. It's quite sad...because I would never try to challenge a Nurse Practitioner and see who's better. Oh well...
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