going home

So I am finally getting a small break from school and am going home to visit my parents and brother and sister. I have been so incredibly home sick and can not wait to see my family.

I am also a little nervous. I'll explain that one later.

I had a great day at clinical today. I was in the new born nursery and loved it. I got to do so much. I did the usual tasks they let the students cover: vital signs, first bath, feeding, changing diapers, bringing baby to/getting baby from mom. But I also got to give meds (Hep B vaccine, Vitamin K, erythromyacin opthalmic, and the triple dye for the cord), cut the cord (with a scalpel!), a PKU/new born screening test and a bilirubin blood draw. I got to see so much. The nursery was crazy full and the nurses were like "Linnea, go do this, Katie go do that."

While I don't think I could do NBN for more than a clinical day, I did enjoy it.

Okay, off to sit in traffic and drive up to Spring. Yay.