Week Two Clinical

What a day I've had. First of all we arrive at our clinical site this morning at about 6:50 am and head the nurses station to take report and they freak because State is there doing an inspection. They didn't have it posted, so we had to "stand down", which meant leave the building!

We were told to go to the college, we did. They put us in a room where a class started at 8:30 am and since they had no class room available for us in the morning or the afternoon, we had to drive to Plymouth for our clinical. That drive is ONLY 45 minutes away from the college. There was already a clinical class there, so we got stuck in the "activities" area, with no table to write on. We had to do a mini worksheet on our resident, a bladder and bowel assessment, plus interview them for our Resident Profile paper which is due next Monday. Lucky for some of us, we got to have the patient we had all last month. Things went really well for me today, except I am totally exhausted. We are supposed to be doing 12 hour clinicals, which our instructor holds strictly to, but the two others, don't. They are usually out of there between 1 & 2, us on the other hand are there from 7-7. Rrrggggg.

I do enjoy clinicals for the most part, but this month is hard. We are not allowed to sit down except on our break and lunch. We cannot even leave the building to go to our cars to get our lunch so you better make sure you bring in EVERYTHING you need or you are SOL.