My clinical is over… Yay, I am really glad it is over, it was very tiring… I just finished a long 3 week clinical block in the San on one particular ward the whole time. I really got to know the people there and the patients there. One patient this week even said she wanted to keep in contact with me and wanted my contact details, and she wrote hers down and gave it to me saying I should come and visit her and have tea sometime at her place, and she wanted me to write and tell her how my course was going. The scary thing is I hardly knew her, I had only been looking after her that day and she was leaving. So I must have made some impression. She also had some orchids in her room that she said she had grown herself and she wanted me to have them, and made sure nobody else got them, and she was very insistent that I take them and keep them in my room for a few days while they lasted. I guess I felt sorry for her because I know she lives alone, and I got the feeling she didn’t have many friends, so I didn’t really argue with her.
This last clinical block I do feel I have grown a lot, and I think I am a lot more prepared for next year. Perhaps the last few days of clinical I was given more freedom than I am supposed to have, or was expecting to have as a student on clinical, in regards to medications and other care of the client. However the nurses seemed to have a lot of confidence in me, and they think I am ready to become an RN already. And it was not like I didn’t know what I was doing, I just wasn’t used to so much freedom, without the RN there watching every move you make and correcting you in the ‘best way’ to do things (which was ‘their way’) of doing things, even thought what I was doing wasn’t necessarily wrong, it was just my way that I have developed and worked for me. Its really been surprising how many people have said how good a nurse I am, and they are really confident in me. I don’t think I am that good, but I do try and do my best. Well we are dealing with peoples’ lives and health which is very important. The sad thing was one patient did die during my clinical, and two others were very close to it and may die in the next few days.
Anyways, a good thing about my clinical being over, is that now I only have 2 days left of clinical for the rest of the year. And they will be good- one day being on an ambulance (which should be very exciting) and the other day an average day on a ward. But before then, in the next 17 days (2 and a bit weeks) I have 6 assignments due, altogether totaling 185% of my 4 subjects (so 185/ 400%). So that sounds scary. Then a week and a bit after all those are due, I have exams. So I guess I have a lot of work ahead of me. Another strange thing a patient said to me during clinical this last week on Friday, my last day, was that she thought I came from England. And she was asking me how long I had lived in Australia and whether I liked it here or not. It was really bizarre because I have had another patient ask me that a while ago, maybe near the end of last year, and it really surprised me. I thought I just talked normally, like any other Australian does. My parents were born in Australia, all my Grandparents were even born in Australia, and I believe even some of my Great-grandparents were born in Australia, and only before that did we come from England. So I don’t know how have come to talk like that. The Patient that asked me yesterday said that it was the way I pronounce my vows or something. So I guess I must have some sort of accent.
This last clinical block I do feel I have grown a lot, and I think I am a lot more prepared for next year. Perhaps the last few days of clinical I was given more freedom than I am supposed to have, or was expecting to have as a student on clinical, in regards to medications and other care of the client. However the nurses seemed to have a lot of confidence in me, and they think I am ready to become an RN already. And it was not like I didn’t know what I was doing, I just wasn’t used to so much freedom, without the RN there watching every move you make and correcting you in the ‘best way’ to do things (which was ‘their way’) of doing things, even thought what I was doing wasn’t necessarily wrong, it was just my way that I have developed and worked for me. Its really been surprising how many people have said how good a nurse I am, and they are really confident in me. I don’t think I am that good, but I do try and do my best. Well we are dealing with peoples’ lives and health which is very important. The sad thing was one patient did die during my clinical, and two others were very close to it and may die in the next few days.
Anyways, a good thing about my clinical being over, is that now I only have 2 days left of clinical for the rest of the year. And they will be good- one day being on an ambulance (which should be very exciting) and the other day an average day on a ward. But before then, in the next 17 days (2 and a bit weeks) I have 6 assignments due, altogether totaling 185% of my 4 subjects (so 185/ 400%). So that sounds scary. Then a week and a bit after all those are due, I have exams. So I guess I have a lot of work ahead of me. Another strange thing a patient said to me during clinical this last week on Friday, my last day, was that she thought I came from England. And she was asking me how long I had lived in Australia and whether I liked it here or not. It was really bizarre because I have had another patient ask me that a while ago, maybe near the end of last year, and it really surprised me. I thought I just talked normally, like any other Australian does. My parents were born in Australia, all my Grandparents were even born in Australia, and I believe even some of my Great-grandparents were born in Australia, and only before that did we come from England. So I don’t know how have come to talk like that. The Patient that asked me yesterday said that it was the way I pronounce my vows or something. So I guess I must have some sort of accent.
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