today is my first day of clinicals where I will be caring for a patient without a partner! I am glad...and nervous. I know that I have no reason to be nervous, my fellow students are there to help me, and my teachers. I really have nothing to be nervous about. I just want to be the best nurse I can be and I really want to get as much as I possibly can out of these clinicals. In order to get alot out of them I need to be ready and willing to do any procedures that I hear about. If I hear a nurse talking about inserting a catheter I need to volunteer...I am scared...but I know that God will be there. I have been realizing the presence of God more lately. Not feeling...but realizing; realizing that He is present...it gives me great peace...until someone asks who wants to do a catheter...then I will panic :)
Parenting
I am not a parent so I obviously don't know as much as some. However, I do believe I have a little more experience with kids than most people I know who are my age without kids. I have been babysitting for a long time now. About 12 years to be exact. I have witnessed families with incredible parenting, horrible parenting, alternative parenting, and really strange parenting. I have realized that it really doesn't matter what form of discipline or training you use. Consistency is the key. I was once given a copy of the book, "To train up a child," by Micheal and Debbi pearl. I was about 19 years old when I started reading this book and to be honest I had to put it down after the first chapter. I was sickened. They start out by comparing children to military personal. Here is a passage from the first chapter. " When headstrong young men join the military, they are first taught to stand still. The many hours of close-order-drill are simply to teach and reinforce su
Yeah. That wouldn't be fun.
ReplyDeleteImagine HAVING some put IN a catheter!
That might help lessen your panic and be a better catheter installer;-) There might come a day when you are glad someone else is the best catheter installer they could possibly be! That's something to be proud of! ;-P
It might help just to remember you're just there to help out folks who need help. Tony might not like me saying this, but after his appendectomy last year the anesthesia left him unable to urinate. He was in so much agony that he really needed help, in the form of a catheter. It wasn't fun, but that nurse really helped him out of a bad spot and he knew it. You're learning to be that person. You are going to a blessing from God to so many people every day.
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