#student nurblr

[somuchtostudysolittletime]

28/5/23 // 13.46

Yes these are my uni notes from 2018. Yes I’m glad I’ve kept them because today, I, a fully qualified pharmacist, could not figure out how beta blockers work and had to use these notes. Help

[antiquecactus]

[lemoncurdled]

Adventures in fundamentals of nursing texts

[populationpensive]

PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT/ PHYSICIAN ASSOCIATE AWESOMENESS

Are you a PA-C? Are you a PA-S? Are you interested in becoming a PA? Want to be in health care and not sure about life decisions? You can find active #pablr people here! You can also add yourself if you're a committed PA person.

Posting about PA related things? Use our hashtag, #PAblr

The community is organized primarily by myself and @simplysupergirl at this point. Usually when we have time and can bother to update the list. Originally created in 2013 by yours truly.

As of 12/1/2022, I have updated this list and purged it of outdated accounts (i.e. has not updated since before 2020), bots, and canceled accounts.

Other awesome health care related hashtags are #medblr (med school/residency), #pharmblr (pharmacy school/pharmacists), and #nurblr (nurses!).

[commonrn]

Go ahead #Nurblr, what’s yours?

[futurenursehannah]

been so busy with my clinical placement and working at the disability home that i haven’t been able to study since thursday and i have a A&P exam coming up soon!!

nervous nervous nervous but that’s the life of a student nurse my dudes

[commonrn]

Death popping in for a quick consult on my crashing patient

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[nerdgirlnarrates]

Yesterday I went to pre-round on my patient and the nurse happened to be in the room, so I asked her how they were doing and she gave me literally every pertinent piece of clinical info. So I just wanna say: I love you and god bless.

[medblr-of-a-sleepyhead]

Medicine and Death : The stuff I wasn't prepared for.

These last 4.5 years of med school, have been all about learning anatomy and physiology and cases and drug reactions and clinical features on paper and fancy books..... A heaven and hell of difference from what actually practicing medicine, the reality of it, entails.

Day before yesterday a 6 year old girl died during my shift. She came in with RTA and severe SAH, admitted around 4 pm, received appropriate drugs....... around 8:30 pm I get a call-book (similar to a paging, in Western-speak) from the ward (which was already too late in coming, I realise now) that she's gasping. I was the sole on-call doc in the neurosurgery ward for the night, amidst a 40 hour shift in the general surgery ER. I go in and within 10 seconds I knew she'd already expired.... No carotids, no breaths, no heart sounds, her pupils fixed and dilated in the blank stare of the dead....her skin was still warm under the layers of sheets she was bundled in..... The oxygen pump and mask was still on, uselessly.

I kinda felt numb at that moment, tbh. Never in my life had I been prepared to face that kind of crisis.

I frantically added the emergency drugs, ran to the ward and asked the nurse to administer them stat, called the neurosurgeon visiting (who was off duty), sent him the CT scan photos as a last ditch effort, even though I knew it would be useless.

Then after an hour I had to break the news to the parents. The family belonged to the rural poor, the father was barely able to sign his name in shaky, unpracticed hands, under my written declaration of his little girl's death.

Strangely enough, it was just a matter of half an hour. A very short life ended, without any pomp or rejoice, the last breath drawn before I could even reach there to do anything meaningful.

It was the most horrible fucking experience of my life till now. I still haven't stopped to process everything, my brain went into damage control mode and shut down any and all rewinds of this whole thing, until now.

I instinctively turn to drawing/painting whenever I need to shut down and distance myself from reality. It's something cathartic and meditative for me. It's strange how not all art is born from joy and happiness. The vast seas I painted yesterday (below), well after midnight, because I couldn't fall asleep, was probably the effort of my subconscious to let my heart be free, even if for a little while.

I'm not sure I can keep doing this on and on, over and over. Right now, this whole prospect of taking responsibility for hundreds of lives each day, seems like a surreal, humongous task. Maybe after witnessing 10 or 15 or a hundred more deaths, this incident will feel insignificant, lost amidst all the other chaos. Until then, I'll continue to feel out of balance, skeptical of each and every of my decision : did I do the right thing? Was there something else I could do? What if this happened instead of that? What if....?

[somuchtostudysolittletime]

5/4/22 // 15.26

Okay was anyone going to tell me that sodium nitroprusside degrades in light to form cyanide and turn blue or was I supposed to learn that myself by doing a postgrad teaching module on IV drugs whilst in self isolation and watching a tv show about fish

[antiquecactus]

I'm a new student nurse (started in August of 2022) and I want to document my journey here on this blog!

It probably won't be super detailed but it's something to help myself and others with their nursing school journey!

I also work as a CNA so I'll be documenting some of that as well here! Thank you for joining me on this adventure and good luck!

[lemoncurdled]

in a textbook for HCWs. I’m so glad your niece had a good lockdown I guess?

[brooklynpa-c]

PAID OFF MY PA SCHOOL LOANS!

[commonrn]

I said what I said.

[futurenursehannah]

another pt today got her arm impaled by a stick whilst picking raspberries in the wood this morning

AND SHE JUST CARRIED ON PICKING RASPBERRIES LIKE THERE WASNT A BIG FUCKING STICK IN HER ARM

😭 it must be so painful but i kind of want to laugh just because of how bizarre it is

[bn-studies]

🍵Don’t forget about that tea you made and left on the counter🍵