Wowie!!! I had another fantastic shift in the birthing unit last night. I left the hospital after midnight, and practically floated home. I learned SO much yesterday about fetal monitoring, reading the heart-rate strips, re-positioning baby inside by mom changing positions, about adjusting epidurals and Pitocin drips, about dealing with labouring moms who aren't the most engaged in the labouring process (puts my first-career diplomacy skills to good use!!! Looks like that's a 'transferrable skill' I'll be using often as a nurse!).
And I also learned how much I still need to learn. I mean I totally realize that nursing school can only teach us so much -- the basics, so to speak. But real life work experience in the first couple years out of nursing school are going to be a learning curve all of their own.
Bring it on, I say! One step at a time.
And thank you to allnurses.com for the following laugh, which exactly sums up how I feel in clinicals. And apparently that tome is just Volume 1! :
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