As I put on my lab coat this morning, I realized how much I had missed wearing it. Nursing school started up again on Monday, and today was our orientation to our pediatrics hospital. After my pediatric rotation, I’ll go through obstetrics and finish up with a bit of medical/surgical.
Rotations will take me to two different hospitals this semester. While it will be nice to see how different hospitals handle things, it will be a little nerve-wracking to move to a new hospital about the time I figure out where everything is at the first one! One thing’s for sure — being a nursing student teaches you to go with the flow 
During skills lab this week, we started on injections. My goal is to learn to do my intradermal injections better than the guy who gave me my PPD test — I have a nasty bruise on my forearm. I think I’m going to buy a couple of chicken breasts and practice over the holiday weekend. Someone also said that hotdogs are good for practicing injections. How do you practice your injections?
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Good luck with the injections - just don’t try them out on me!
Comment by JSS — September 2, 2007 @ 12:18 pm
We used hotdogs. They say the texture is quite similar to human forearms, but it also squirted the solution back out! I think I’ve still only done 1 PPD on a real person, it’s not something we do in the hospital very often.
Good luck in school this semester!
Comment by birdy — September 5, 2007 @ 10:58 am
come on~ you are the best~
Comment by frank — September 10, 2007 @ 10:34 pm
I used a stress-relief squeezer in the shape of a car that someone gave to boy child. Worked great for me practicing IV starts, too.
Comment by StudentNurseJack — September 21, 2007 @ 9:47 am
Good post. You make some great points that most people do not fully understand.
“Rotations will take me to two different hospitals this semester. While it will be nice to see how different hospitals handle things, it will be a little nerve-wracking to move to a new hospital about the time I figure out where everything is at the first one! One thing’s for sure — being a nursing student teaches you to go with the flow”
I like how you explained that. Very helpful. Thanks.
Comment by chiz — March 5, 2008 @ 9:55 am