Today I got to shadow my mom at work
Today I got to shadow my mom at work, in the recovery room. It was pretty fun, it was pretty much a routine to follow: make the patient comfortable, check vital signs, complete report, and bring them to either short stay or their room. I even got to dress up in some scrubs, lol. In between the cases that I helped my mom in (I just put little stickers with the patient's name on their charts) I read a little... and when I helped bring the patient to their next destination, people would stare at me with this look that plainly said, "wait, she's too young to be a nurse..." It was interesting, to say the least. I may get to shadow a CRNA or nurse anestietist next week, but I have to have the permission of the patient and the doctor. ^^: From what I've seen so far, I like nursing. I guess it's because I like taking care of people, and it's a systematic procedure that I can fall into routine fairly easily (as long as I don't do trauma). For the most part, the patients were too knocked out on anestisia to do anything drastic, they mainly moan about how they hurt from their surgery or snore away. I learned one major thing from observing: if you don't know how to put something back in, make sure the patient can't pull it out. There was a gastric bypass patient who came in, and they had to restrain her hands with face towels (she was knocked out completely) to make sure that she would not remove a tube that was removing excess stomach fluid. Anywho, I can't wait to go back and shadow again, I'm already enjoying nursing.