Clinical

So here we are, almost half done our first year of the BScN program. The time has flown by so quickly! We have learned so many things from all of our classes, but I feel that I learned the most for my clinical placement in January from our Anatomy & Physiology class and from our Foundations for Nursing Practicum class. I have learned so much about the human body and why it does what it does, as well as how to take blood pressures, temperatures, and how to feed and ambulate patients. I am rather excited to go to clinical but a little nervous at the same time. I am constantly wondering where my placement will be: Oshawa, Bowmanville, or Port Perry.

Clinical placement will be challenging. I do not really have any nursing experience except from the care I have provided for my two year old son when he's had a tumble. I feel that I am a fairly compassionate person, and I understand how frustrating it is not to be able to do things for yourself. I really hope that I am able to cope with being pregnant, having a two year old, having two full days of clinical every other week, as well as classes practically every day. Ultimately I want to be a labour and delivery nurse, so I have to be able to cope with stress. I do believe that I will be able to do it. I have made it through natural childbirth. I CAN DO ANYTHING! I hope my patients like me!
Department of Nursing (2008). Department of nursing: labour and delivery nurses. Weber State University, Ogden, Utah. Retrieved December 3, 2008 from http://www.weber.edu/nursing/

Faculty or Health Sciences (2008). Bachelor of science in nursing: SIM lab. Uuniversity of Ontario Institute of Technology, Oshawa, Ontario. Retrieved December 3, 2008 from http://www.healthsciences.uoit.ca/bscn.html