OH MY GOSH! Aside from my amazing day at Children’s Hospital, I had sent Ellen DeGeneres a link to a video that was just hilarious. A girl I use to work with at Montana’s had gotten her wisdom teeth and was filmed afterwards on her reaction to the anaesthetic. She mentioned Ellen a couple times and so I figured I had to submit it on Ellen’s website.
I just received news this afternoon that ELLEN showed her video on the show today and wants to meet Hilary! Here’s the link with Ellen talking about it:
I just received news this afternoon that ELLEN showed her video on the show today and wants to meet Hilary! Here’s the link with Ellen talking about it:
This is the original link to the full movie (It’s hilarious and definitely worth the watch – I promise you’ll smile):
OK... aside from this awesome news..... my first shift at Children’s was AMAZING! I got up this morning at 0420 and managed to roll out of bed. You know you’re a nursing student when you don’t get any sleep the night before clinical because you are afraid you’re going to sleep through your alarm.... so you wake up every 15 minutes to check the time. So, as I jumped out of bed I ran to the shower and managed to get ready in 45 minutes. I had a hard time deciding what scrubs to wear. Now, don’t assume I have boring scrubs, I have SO many patterned and kid’s tops... it was actually hard to decide what to wear.
I left the house at 0515 and realized I needed to scrape my car widows. As I heated up my car, I froze my poor phalanges off in the process. After that was all said and done and my GPS was awake I made my way to Children’s hospital. Once arriving, a good 50 minutes early (haha) I sat in my car for a few minutes deciding if I should make a trek around the building to find the main lobby. As I did so, I met up with a girl in my group (who’s also from Surrey) and we kept each other company until everyone showed up at 0645.
We got up on our unit just after 0700 and listened to morning report on all the patients. Picture 20+ nurses and students in a small dinky room for a good 15 minutes. MAN we were all on the verge of passing out, it was so hot in there. After report we gathered outside in the hall and started to get a sense of what all the bells and alarms sounded like on the unit. Within 5 minutes, a certain “bell” went off and within seconds every nurse dropped what they were doing and RAN down the hall. One of the emergency bells went off and within seconds 15+ nurses were at the room with the crash cart and everything. It was nuts to watch this, for everyone was on the ball and responded ASAP! I was impressed and a little scared. It’s as easy as pulling the call bell out of the wall to get help that immediate, so I’m going to be EXTRA careful when doing anything with the call bell so I don’t alarm any people. Luckily this morning it was a false alarm.
For the next 2.5 hours we toured the unit, getting an understanding where the medication, supplies, ETC was. We had our first coffee break and boy was it needed. I filled my tummy with a yummy muffin and fruit smoothie from “second cup.” From there, we did some more orientation on the unit, going through charts and familiarizing ourselves with the policies etc. When Lunch rolled around I WAS ESTATIC. I was so hungry! We got a nice 45 minute lunch... which was needed and I enjoyed every minute sitting down!
After lunch, we got to assess a very sick 11 month old girl. She was so precious in every way, such a gift from God. We all gowned up because she was at a respiratory risk, so as we came into the room the helpless body looked miniature to the bed she was in. With wires hooked up and feeding tubs every which way she lay motionless. She had been born blind and had seizure disorders as well as many other things. She was admitted with pneumonia and has been in the hospital numerous times because of respiratory illnesses. She was so FULL of mucous her breathing was so congested and wet. We all got a chance to listen to her lungs and get an idea of how to block that sound out when listening to her heart rate... man that was tough, especially when that loud cracking sound overpowered everything else. Very faintly in the background, you could hear this precious heart beating away! I wanted to pick that little girl up in my arms and hold on tight.
I know my journey at Children’s will be tough. At lunch, I saw kids with tracheotomies and others that had IV poles and cancer patients. It’s taking me a while to realize that this is a “children’s hospital.” As we toured the halls we saw the linin cart and how it had TINY hospital gowns etc. Of course all of us girls let out an “awe” but yah it’s just something I’m getting use to. I LOVED the colors and all the play rooms they had set up. I’m excited for more Friday’s to come. I’m praying and hoping that for next year I could get my preceptorship there... that’d be AMAZING!
So.. to finish off my day, we got off at 1500 which was so nice, seeing we were all so exhausted. When I got home around 1630, I went into my room and CRASHED on my bed. I was out like a light and slept all the way till 2145. MAN what a good nap that was. Now I’m up and feeling a little tired, but could definitely stay awake some more. Hopefully I can get some sleep tonight for I’ve got a CPR recert before work tomorrow! Wish me luck!
Anyways I hope you all have a wonderful evening!
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