I am roughly 33 hrs into a 160 hr unpaid externship for school. The first 2 or 3 days were completely overwhelming, I had thought that being in school for 18 months on an accelerated learning program would prepare me for the clinic. Um, not so much.
Fortunately I am a people person and after I finally got over my huge anxiety about rooming patients and managed to figure out the clinics "on wall" blood pressure cuffs, I feel like I am doing fairly well.
Everyone seems very patient and willing to answer my many questions. Sometimes I feel as though I am playing the 900 question game, but I feel like I am "getting it", and my questions aren't too out of the ballpark. I hope.
Yesterday I put in 12 hrs, minus 1/2 hr lunch, so really only 11 1/2. I got to assist w/stitches, and do my first legitimate in clinic IM shot in the butt.
All in all a fun day, it seems to get so busy that the hrs just fly by.
When it's not busy though it seems to go A LOT slower. The actual ( not in training) M A's have phone messages to answer and Rx's to send to the pharmacy...all I do so far is watch them do it, which is pretty dang boring. Probably should enjoy the break while I can, but ....zzzzzzzzzzzZZZZZZZZ
Note to self. I HATE GERMS. Starting to feel sick. blah..
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