I’m off for two weeks from school – normally one week but thanks to the DNC coming to Denver we get until Labor Day to put our books on the shelf.

My clinical was fantastic. Great instructor, great staff and patients, interesting experiences, pretty much all you could ask for. I got to spend my last day in the surgical ICU, what a treat!

This weekend Ben and I are headed to NYC with Brian in tow. We’re going to stay with some friends in Brooklyn for a long weekend away from dusty old Colorado 🙂 I can’t wait!

Yeah, this is a short, kind of lame post. I waited too long since clinical to write, so my interest in revisiting it is low. I’m loving that my house is clean, my kitty is in my lap, and I spent 2 hours today watching Scrubs and knitting. How about some quick stats as a final note on my Med/Surg 1 experience?

Number of MRSA swabs taken down to the lab: 11
Number of times I almost fainted: 1 (PICC line insertion = YOWCH!)
Number of old men I showered: 2
Number of times I yanked up my compression socks per day: 7
Number of nurses I shadowed: 6
Number of lungs auscultated: 7
Number of times I washed my hands: 288 (give or take)
Number of times I applied soap thinking it was alcohol rub until it failed to absorb: 3
Number of times I entered vitals in the wrong column of the flow sheet: 5
Number of times old men winked at me: 6