Hope you had your pain meds...

because this is going to hurt! (a lot)

Topic of discussion/demonstration of today's lab: wound care, including irrigation, debridement, culturing, and dressing change.

After lunch, focus completely changed to inserting/removing a urinary catheter and collecting a sterile urine specimen. We all got sent home with "practice kits" for these two main activities. I can soooo see people lining up for me to cath them now!
Today was also the last simulated labs for a while, watch out local hospitals Intro to Nursing students are in the building! Minus one more lab day in April to get checked of on our wound dressing skills, we will be in our assigned hospitals for the remainder of the semester. Should be fun or good for a interesting story or two. :)

I have ten or so of assigned chapters to read (with of course the corresponding workbook pages for said chapters), drug cards to finish, and two case studies to work on before next week, plus I think I also have a chemistry test to prepare for. Guess what I am saying, is don't look for posts anytime soon....unless something really interesting happens.