Well I'm a little over halfway through my first semester of junior year in nursing school, and it's been pretty hectic. I am a full-time student with the minimum of 12 credits, I work between 4 and 13 hours per week at one job and 24 hours per week at another job. Between school and my jobs, it gets hard to fit in a social life.
This semester's clinical experience has been in maternity and pediatrics; and for the most part, I've been enjoying it. My favorite experiences have been in postpartum! During most of our hospital clinical experiences, we wear the hospital scrubs, so it has been kind of fun to experience what real nurses wear instead of our traditional scrubs.
Finally, my job at the nursing home has been a bit of a learning curve. I think that a lot of the time, we have ideas about what it should be like in the nursing home, but actually being there is so different. I have many thoughts on nursing home staffing and work environment that I will dedicate a post to later on. On the bright side, the dress code isn't strictly enforced so I've been able to wear some fun scrubs instead of making sure that I wash my work scrubs every night after I work. Also, I finally got my official name tag!
