Holy cow! My LAST day. At times, this clinical seemed to be dragging, but really, overall it went by so fast. I really can't believe it. I'm done with my second clinical! Only two more to go before graduation! WOW! Today was a really good day. Yesterday, my CI and I started going over my final evaluation and then we finished it up today. I was really happy with all of her comments and suggestions. I really have grown a lot and she definitely recognized my hard work and I definitely feel rewarded for it. I did have a good experience, it was a little hard at different times, but overall it was good. I learned a lot, and the staff at the hospital are so nice and helpful.
The best part of today was one of my patients was also discharged! Much like my lady who was post-open heart with complications, so was this particular patient, although much worse. He ended up having sepsis and multi-organ failure, including the need to be on continuous dialysis for awhile. It was really sad for quite some time because it appeared he was maybe not going to pull through. But within the last week or so he has been doing so much better medically. He is starting to talk to us a little and today he got his foley cath out, the last line.tube holding him back! So, we went in to see him and I told him it was my last day and we talked a bit and I told him how proud I was of how far he had come, etc. It was a really nice, special "goodbye" (He has been in the hospital since May 9!!!) Well, later in the afternoon when my CI went to check off my progress note for him it came up he had been discharged to the nursing home!!! It was so exciting!! And perfect timing! :)
Well, I guess it's time to put another experience in the books and call it a day. I had a nice experience, but I'm glad to be done and ready for the next step!
