Pediatrics pt. 2
My second day in clinical I was placed on the neonatal ICU. My day started out much like many previous clinical days - with me wandering around lost and then asking random people questions in hope to (end goal) find the nurse I was placed with before change of shift happened. After finding the list, identifying my nurse as someone named “Autumn”, and then being told Autumn wasn’t coming in today. A very tall thin woman dressed entirely in pink scrubs led me to the charge nurse's office - I felt like a small primate scurrying along behind a graceful giraffe as we forged through the Sahara (the NICU) in search of the allusive watering hole (charge nurse). Here, I was assigned to Jeanie an older Filipino nurse who along with letting me give all her meds, prime her pump, and insert a G-tube, also had me do yoga with her mid shift and later on made me practice NCLEX questions when there was nothing for me to do. All in all a fun and proactive day tha
