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| Just wanted to let you guys know that I am still alive and everything is going good! I had a good week this week! I got the highest grade on 3 different tests I took, put down an NG tube, cathed a lady, and got to watch a baby be born! That baby being born thing was super cool! For my OB class we each get in on a labor and birth experience where you sign up to be on call and then if a lady comes in you go in and help out until she delivers. I was signed up last night and went in about 6 and got to help this young couple have their first baby! I was super cool!!! But I did end up being there until almost 3 in the morning! So that made for a long day since I had been up since six! (I'm a loser, but it has been awhile since I have been awake for that long! I know I know you guys do it all the time!) Then tomorrow I have an ceremony where I get inducted into the Upsilon Iota Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International Nursing Honor Society, which by the way is by invitation only! Plus my mom and dad and some of the kids are coming up for that so it will be fun to see them!! Well, I'm sure this sounded kinda boring to you but it was a good week for me! Hope you had a good week too, or if not that your next week will be a good one!! XOXOXOXOXOXOXO | | |
| Feeewwww! I lived through the first week of school for this semester! I think this semester should be a little easier than last semester. Which will be much appreciated! I am taking Nursing of Adult and Children, which is a medical/surgical nursing class with a little info on peds stuff since we don't have a class that is just peds. (It is pretty much the same as the first half of the class I took last semester.) This class has a clinical on Thursdays that is from 7 am to 3 pm and we are on the medical, surgical, or peds floor and then we also go to dialysis, an orthopedic clinic, same day surgery, and a pediatrician’s office. The clinical is pretty fun, but a lot of prep stuff before you go to clinical and then a careplan and write up after each week. This semester instead of taking Mental Health (thank goodness that is over!!!!) I get to take Childbearing Family. The clinical is only every other Tuesday from 7 am to 12 pm and I will be on the OB floor where you either care for a postpartum mom, a baby, or a gyno patient. You also get to have one birth experience where you follow a mom through labor and delivery. I am really looking forward to this class!!! I am taking a required gen ed History class that shouldn't be too bad, a one credit Nursing Research class that is mostly all inclass work, so that is nice. I am also taking a Lakota Medicinal and Cultural Experience class that we do online and then go spend three days on the Rosebud reservation doing foot care and other service projects. I really think this is going to be very interesting and a great experience for me. This week we learned how to put in IV's so now I just have to wait to do one in real life!!! So if you are feeling dehydrated or need IV antibiotic, feel free to come to Yankton on a Thursday and let me practice on you!!! That pretty much sums up the school part of my life, but since I have been off for a month that hasn't been all I have done, even thought it probably will be now. I had a whole month off from school, which was a super nice break, but I am a nerd and was kinda ready to go back!! We were able to go home for almost three weeks over Christmas, because Wilson Trailer where Shaun works closed down their plant for two weeks, since they aren't selling very many trailers. This worked out good for us, so Shaun took a few extra vacation days and we went home and he drove truck and I worked a little bit at the Post Office/Hay Company for Shaun's aunt. But mostly we just hung out! It was super nice, but I ate way too much!! Food just tastes better at home! Shaun is planning to quit working a Wilson the end of this next week or the beginning of the next and start driving truck full time for Micah's girlfriend Tricia's dad. He will be hauling grain from around Yankton and will be home every night. Which is good for me, because now he gets off work at 2:30 and just sits around and gets a little annoying to me when I am trying to do my homework!! Don't get me wrong I love him, but.... he get a little annoying!!! He is super excited cause this will pay quite a bit better and he loves to drive, especially truck. So I guess we are both happy! So I have a question for you guys. (Don't feel like you have to answer!!) I was wondering if you were in a hospital that had student nurses would you want to be cared for by one of them? (You have the chance to say no and you still have your regular nurse, but we give all the meds and do most of the care and assessment under the supervision of our instructor.) Especially if you were on the OB floor and were going to give birth would you want to allow a student to participate if your care then? Just wondering, cause it is easy for me to say I would because I know about all the learning experience a student nurse can get, but am curious for some other people's opinions! And I KNOW all of you have opinions!!!! I have had such super nice people that just think it is the greatest thing to get to help out with our learning, but I have always wondered about the people who say no and their feelings! | | |
| Just thought I would catch you up with what I did this summer... babysat three kids, watched a lot of Sponge Bob, played at the park alot. Camped and boated alot. Sunburned alot ... I probably have skin cancer. Then school started and I study alot. Mostly read alot ... stupid medical textbooks! I don't cook much that is now Shaun's job, he's pretty good! He also sometimes even does dishes, once there are no more clean ones. I go to the mental health hospital once a week for 5 hours. CRAZIES!!! We are also going to the prison in Sioux Falls for a visit on Tuesday. Hasn't been too bad! Then I go to the medical, surgical, or pediatric unit for 8 hours once a week. Nothing too cool yet. Most of my clients have been VERY confused old ladies! I did get to see another students client who had dehisced an abdominal incision that was pretty cool. I am still working 7 hours a week at the daycare on campus, and I get to take care of alot of really cute little bitty babies!! Yeah! Shaun is still working for Wilson and hauling hay and grain for a guy here in town. We still like to go home, but I normally end up reading/studying the whole time so sometimes I just stay home and Shaun goes, that's what is going on this weekend. If you visit Yankton let me know and I'll tell Shaun to cook you something then while we're eating I'll take a break and we can visit! Love you! Miss you all! Good to see some of you the other day! XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXO | | |
| OK.... Let's just start with... I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry! Shame on me! Shame on me! I am a horrible person! OK with all that out of the way let me catch you up on my ultra exciting life! NOT! School has been out for almost two weeks and I made the Dean's List. I was definitely ready for a little break! Now I am baby sitting for three kids (8, 4, and 1) at their house Monday - Friday 7:30-3:30. On the social side of my life not much is happening since all of my friends went home for the summer, but we have been going home quite a bit so that has been fun. Two weekends ago we helped Micah's girlfriend's dad work cattle and I am an EXCELLENT shot giver! One with each hand (maybe I should be a vet, they never let me do that the hospital!). We also went home last weekend for Shaun's cousin's weeding. We are planning to do a little camping and take the boat out this weekend for Memorial Day and Shaun's birthday. Shaun and I took the boat out the other day for this season's maiden voyage. It was a good thing we did too because we blew a radiator hose since it was too hot because we had melted off the exhaust hose, but luckily we had turned around so we were in the little bay by the dock, but we did still had to row for about 300 yards with the skies which were the only things that happened to be in the bottom of the boat. Even that tiny little bit of rowing made my arms and back SORE! That's about all that I have been up to thusly the lack of blogging. But I can't wait to see all of you at the Joedeman Campout! WOOOOO HOOOO!!!!! XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOX | | |
| Here are some pictures of our new skates. 
These are Shaun's they're hockey skates. 
These are mine, they're called recreational figure skates. I'll try to remember to take some more exciting pictures when we are actually skating! Today in Nursing Lab we got to practice injections on oranges! And even better....PORTABLE BUTTS!!!!! Actually they are just rubber abdomens down to like the knees, they're suppose to feel like a real person and they kinda do. | | |
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