Simulation

Wow, am I bad at this blog thing. In fairness there is nothing really interesting to talk about as of yet.

One more month and we will get out of the lab and away from simulations to our "hands dirty" in the hospital! Today I had my first simulation lab. Basically, machines (as opposed to other nursing students) are our patients but they can talk and can do all the things to them you would do to a normal patient with diagnostic testing, medications, etc. We even have one simulator gives birth to a machine baby, but that will be a topic for OB/Pediatrics class. Our Sims instructor mentioned how she doesn't like to be at the school after dark, as the machines become really creepy. Honestly, I was totally freaked out when our "patient" just started this loud heavy breathing, it sounded just like the bad guy from every cheap horror movie created. With the bad comes the good, this is a beneficial tool to learn how not to kill someone. There is no reset button in the hospital.

The test grades came out online this morning and I did about how well I expected I would, but something seemed off. Pretty much the entire class complained how they thought they did better than the scores reflected. So now we are going to re-review them tomorrow. Possibly, we will find the error in the scantron and 90% of our grades will improve from the grade book version. In the theory portion of this week we are trucking right along. Today started the Pharmacology; very soon we will be passing medications and giving shots!