It's been how long?
4.05.2006
Oh yeah, time flies where you're crazy busy. Lessee, according to the listing it's been a month?! Ok, time tocatch back up.
1. Capstone
Awesome, frickin' awesome. The chance to be totally immersed in a professional area was unbelievable. (see here and here for background). Because I live in small town, and word travels, I can't say too much about it, for respect of HIPPA and patient rights,but I will break it down a little for y'all.
While I didn't get a chance to intubate (kind of outside my scope of practice...) I saw several. Saw a couple of ODs, one real bad one with tricyclic antidepressants...very bad mojo. GCS went from 15 at the scene to below 9 on arrival and was dropping even faster until they got a tube in a sedation on-board. Had a guy come in with a stab wound and part of his omentum hanging out. Lucky for me, I knew the OR nurse that night and followed the patient to surgery to watch. It was crazy watching the surgeon stick most of his forearm inside the guy's belly. Knife wounds are "not a good thing", he bought himself a splenectomy and chest tube, but survived. There were sad moments, where patients didn't make it. There were happy moments, like when I started my first real IV successfully (note key term here: successfully).
I put nearly every facet of my education to use during this rotation, from kiddos to the elderly, IVs to chest compressions in CPR (extremely tiring!). So many interesting things happened that one of the charge nurses dubbed me a "bad luck charm" as whenever I was there, bad cases seemed to come in. I think it was just her. But as I was telling one of the nurses, they may have created a monster. I had originally wanted to go into emergency medicine, but lost interest. But now it was back, with a vengance. We'll see how things pan out.
2. Spring Break
Spring break? What Spring Break? Never had one, never will again.
3. School
At this point, 37 days left 'til graduation. It doesn't seem possible, that the end is almost here. It freaks me out, but exciting as well. We'll see how the next month goes.
4. Jobs
I have an interview next week already. Other apps are out and in process. While the interview I have isn't my dream facility, if nothing else comes through, I will be happy there. My wife may not be however. I hate how it is a waiting game. I moved once without a job, and will never do it again. No job, no move. Simple as that.
Well that's the update. 'Till later...
Oh yeah, it's April 5th and it is snowing outside my window...
