Deer caught in headlights

Today was my first day of clinicals. I ended up waking up late because who on earth wakes up at 5am???? I made it on time to my hospital and chatted with my peers and professor. We were informed we'd be getting tested on BP so we needed to find a patient to do it on. Great!

I get on the elevator go up to my floor and get assigned to a nurse. She was very quiet, but nice. She had four patients and one admit coming in. We got there they were doing reports and I have absolutely no idea how they can remember half of the things that are said in report. For the first four hours of the day I felt like a deer caught in headlights. She didn't question my knowledge but I was having a hard time keeping up with the different patients and this one had nausea, and the other was a 10/10, and who again had bloody stools? Who wanted their morphine? What time is it? Where in the world AM I!? I felt A/O x1 for a good part of the day.

Lots of medications to get done and so easy to make a mistake. At one point my nurse forgot one pill sitting at the patient's bed side. As we're leaving I pull his tray over and see his little pill sitting there still in the package. I asked her what it was and she looked at me wide eyed, her turn to be the deer I guess, she asked me where I found it. Checked her MAR and she hadn't given the pt. the medication. No problem... it was only his heart medication and after all he was only there for a MI.

We had post conference and a lot of my peers got to do a lot more hands on stuff. My patients were very easy and somewhat boring. I was slightly jealous of my peers who got to help their nurses with catheters and baths and turning people. I really didn't touch any patient.

But moving on! Next week it'll be buddy up with a peer day and after day I'm on my own! My time will come and I will absolutely rock it (cross your fingers)