BABIES!!
Back from a whirlwind weekend in Rochester for my boyfriend’s college graduation (Congratulations baby!). It was a lot of fun and a good break.
I’m in the beginning of my second week of Summer Semester. This summer I’m taking Maternity and Pediatrics. The first half of the summer I’m doing Maternity clinical then the second half of the summer I’ll switch to do Pediatrics. Also for the first three weeks I’m doing School Health clinical in an elementary school.
First impressions? Surprisingly so far I’m not enjoying class that much 
I’m very suprised by this since pediatrics is what I want to do. Our classes are three hours each, peds on Monday and maternity on Tuesday. We sit in uncomfortable seats and the material is sort of jumbled up on pre-made powerpoints from the textbooks for one of them. I really hope that this is just because it’s the beginning and you have to get through the fluffy stuff first. It’s not deterring me from peds though because it’s not the material itself that’s boring it’s just how it’s being presented. Again hopefully it’s just first week or so disorganization.
Clinicals on the other hand I LOVE as usual 
We’re doing our first 12 hour shifts for maternity. Last week we got to give a baby a bath and learned how to take vitals (speedy little heartbeats!!) and then do lots of orientation stuff. I also got to feel a few uteruses (uteri?) one post-c-section and one post-vaginal delivery. Very interesting. I loved it. I loved being around the new parents and the babies!
And this week I’m heading to the labor and delivery room!!! CANNOT WAIT!
School Health clinical was awesome too. We’re all sent to different local schools. I’m at an elementary school and it’s so much fun. The nurse I work with is FANTASTIC. She’s awesome at interacting with the children, parents, and staff as well as teaching me tons. The kids are all really sweet. My favorite observation is that at this age (1st grade-5th grade) especially with the younger kids, they are SO honest. If you ask them if they think they’ll be okay to go back to class they’ll tell you the truth and all the kids I saw last week said “yes I’m ready to go back to class” no one was trying to get out of anything. It was so refreshing haha. The nurse said that this week she’s going to sit back and let me be the school nurse (except I can’t give meds since my instructor is not there with me), meaning I’ll triage, treat, and document (she’ll be right there though and help me if needed, and then go over all my documentation afterward since it will be under her name). I’m very very nervous about this, but very very excited! I think this will be a great experience. Talking to some of my peers (everyone at different schools) no one else is getting quite the experience I’m getting–it seems everyone else is assisting in minor ways or more observing. Hopefully next weekend I’ll have a great report about that experience!
~love always~
Jen
