I'm excited for Clinicals this week!! =)
This week at University Hospital I'll be doing my intubation in the surgery department and ER rotations. I get to stand in for a few surgeries..... Some are open heart surgeries too!!! =) Guess what I get to do?! Inutbate and manage airways during the procedure (with a preceptor of course). I'm hoping to do as much intubations as I can. Once I get one intubation done I will move on to the next patient and so on. Depending on how many are scheduled of course. If there aren't many I get to stay back and watch a few surgeries. After all the surgeries are done, I head to the ER department and finish my day. =) I'm so excited. The only sad part is that it'll only be three days next week. I can't wait til I get my registered respiratory therapist license. I think I'm going to work here at University Hospital. But we'll see. I'm going to St. Tammany in Convington this summer. I hear it's a very nice hospital. Plus, I don't have to go through the Causway bridge cause I live in the east anyway. And also, I'll be going back to East Jefferson for Pulmonary Rehab for about a week also. I hope it'll be fun and not to boring. Oh yeah, I'll be at Tulane Hospital also for Neonatal ICU for about a week and do some more Pediatrics/ Neonatal ICU at Children's Hospital too. Full schedule for the Summer huh?! It'll be a very short summer since i'l be so busy.
It's only 10 weeks. AHHHHHH!!!!
It's my last semester of clinicals before I'll be practicing my license. Can you believe it?! I'm going to be an CRT! My first credentials behind my name. Possibly, I'll be adding more to it. I'm going to change that CRT into RRT. Then add a BS with it too!! Three credentials!! teehee.... But i'm just going to put RRT, BS. Yeah, I'm looking into some perfusionist schools after I graduate. Maybe I'll be moving out to Texas in a few years. There's a perfusion school over there. Or maybe I'll change my mind and specialize in something else. There's a possibility LSUHSC New Orleans will have a PA program for 2009 when I graduate. But there's very limited acceptance. So we'll see. I know that I want higher education, since I can do so much after I graduate. It's just.... I don't know what to do. So many choices and decisions to make.
*Big Breath* taking a step back. It's been a year. WOW!
Time sure flies..... update more later.
College has opened up alot of opportunities for me. Being in this program has changed my life. Because of it, there are endless opporunities for me to make a difference. When you get where you want to be, there's no other way but to keep on going Up. OMG, I'm growing up.
What's Intubation?! Here's a Video on it.
