I survived my first semester of Nursing School! Yay me!
I have a HUGE binder full of notes already! WOW!
What did I learn the last 4 months? Here's a tongue in cheek recap:
- If you go to the hospital and you have to have a Foley Catheter put in, don't be surprised if the Student Nurse assigned to your care is all excited to "try this on a live person"!
- In the world of Nursing School, getting a 90% is a B. Why? That is so mean.
- If you are in the hospital and have to choose between having a Foley Catheter inserted in your urethra or a Nasogastric tube up your nose, pick the catheter, hands-down. Don't ask why. Just trust me.
- There are things that make young people sick that cause dementia symptoms in older adults. Why would a urinary tract infection cause dementia? Who the hell knows, but if your elder becomes suddenly confused, that might be one cause.
- To be able to do the things that nurses do that involve bodily fluids and may be unpleasant aspects of the job, nurses have seriously twisted senses of humor. More proof that I have picked the right profession.
- I am already making what I hope will be lifelong friendships. There is no joke there. I just really have a lot of affection for almost all of the people I go to school with. Getting through a tough program like this is as bonding as sharing a foxhole. Only with more pee.
School starts again on January 26th.
Hi Stacie,
ReplyDeleteI just want to say thanks for writing about such an unpleasant subject from a fun angle.
Although I am not a nurse, I work for a medical manufacturing company who works with nurses daily... more specifically, on the subject of catheters. So unpleasant.
Luckily for male patients out there, we have developed a product that does not require the intrusion of Foley catheters or the risk of infection. It's call Liberty and it is completely external. Oh, how technology wows me! :)
If you or your colleagues want to know more about it, feel free to contact me at acoelho@bioderm.us
or just visit our Web site, www.bioderm.us
Thanks again for the witty post.
I can't decide if this is spam or not. Is it somebody's job to read blogs looking for references to catheters? Bizarre.
ReplyDeleteI don't know how an external catheter would help with problems like urinary retention due to things like prostate enlargement, but I'm not sure if I am curious enough to encourage medical vendors to basically advertise on my blog.
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