Wednesday: I am sitting in the doctors office for possible strep throat. My tonsils are swollen and have white patches on them. We are learning the ears nose and throat assessment at school….. It seems like every week I have something going on with the system we assess. The class probably thinks I’m a hypochondriac….. even I am wondering about that….. but the symptoms are clinically provable this time. So….. z-pack for me and the doctor suspects mono. I thought that was an interesting diagnosis theory….. I know I haven’t kissed anyone interesting since I got married but who knows, maybe a fast food worker spit in my food…. you never know.
Monday and Tuesday night I was at work… and after sleeping I was working to finish my care plan and other clinical papers… I’m stressed because this is my first assigned care plan in years and I have never been great at them…
Now Thursday: med surg. Feeling sick and tired….. went to class. It isn’t that great of a class…. we really don’t have the appropriate class time to go over the material or even just hit the main highlights….. it’s a lot. We have to study and learn it all on our own for the most part. I know several students are frustrated. There was a pop quiz over the eyes and ears and I got 9/10! The one I got wrong was on a medication of course. My friend and other class mates didn’t fair as well….. Last week of med surg clinicals for the semester….. thank God. Clinicals are more stressful than anything else. Our OB rotation coming up should t be bad though, and it will give me time to get my pharmacology act together.
– Get my pharmacology act together
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