I have at least one test every week. Sometimes there's more than one, and if that's the case they're both on the same day. It's been more challenging for me to cope with everything this semester. Fortunately I have a lot of support and everyone is being patient with me. I have been more emotional, stressed, anxious, etc. The good news is that there is less than 2 months left of the semester, and then I have 4 glorious months off before starting back to the 4th (and final!) semester of the program.
I just finished up my clinicals last week. That will help relieve quite a bit of stress as it saves me almost 24 hours a week - that's the combined time it took for travel, the 12 hour clinical shift, and the time I spend working on careplans. My psych clinicals were really draining. It's so much easier to have blinders on to so many things in this life. I really struggled with that rotation and I'm grateful it's over!
I really enjoyed my med/surg clinicals. I was able to practice a lot of new skills and I saw a lot of new things. Two of my clinicals were on an oncology unit. I had been dreading that assignment. I actually really liked it and would even consider working on a similar unit in the future. All of my patients were very young, from the young 20's to late 30's. That made quite an impression on me. They all had various forms of leukemia. Putting faces with the facts I had already learned reinforced the need for bone marrow donors. One of the patients I took care of has been unable to find a match because of their ethnicity. Their options are limited. The more I thought about it, the more I considered registering as a donor. The registration is a painless process. Think about it. www.dkmsamericas.org. Maybe one day you'll be able to save a life.
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I saw the light at the end of your tunnel. I don't know how you do it...but you do and you're awesome!
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