Med-Surg/PEDs orientation!

Last Friday was our Med-Surg orientation. This semester I will be back on the PCU (Progressive Cardiac Unit) for 5 weeks, then I will be on the Diabetic Renal for the last 5 weeks of the semester. I was kinda bummed that I got these two floors because I did clinicals on them last year, but I'm sure it will be a blast. My instructor has some pretty cool things lined up for us on the PCU and maybe even a surgery to watch!! I start Med-Surg clinicals this coming Friday, so keep me in your prayers!

PCUE- Progressive Cardiac Unit, Evening shift ( 2:30pm-10pm)

DRD -Diabetic Renal, Day shift (6:30am-2pm)

SIM- Simulation lab in the LU nursing lab

Also...Today was my Peds orientation. I am SO excited for these clinicals. As you can see, my first clinical does not actually start till Sep 21, so until then there are a lot of pre clinical things I need to work on to prepare for these clinicals.

LS-Laurel School (Special Needs School) 8 hr shift

VBH-D (Virginia Baptist Hospital- Day shift) 8 hr shift

ER (Emergency Room) -8 hr shift

Including these clinical sites, we are also able to pick 3 independent Sites (8 hr shifts) (Intensive Care Nursery, OR, Surgery, Pediatric office, school nurse). I signed up for the Intensive Care Nursery and I have that October 31st. During these clinicals we are there to observe pediatric care. I still need to pick 2 more sites, some of the ones they listed interfere with my classes :(, but they said that we could choose to do clinicals at our hospitals back home, so I might look into that!

Overall, I am a little nervous, yet excited to get back into the hospital and be used by God!

Med-Surg

So classes have finally started back up! I'm a Junior in the Nursing program and anxious to get this semester going! I had my first Med-Surg class today! We did the usually, go over the syllabus and such. I really like the teachers we have for this class. They are so encouraging and they love their job! They say Junior year is the meat and potatoes of LU's nursing program and encouraged us to lean on God during this year! Today we talked about Stress, which was a perfect topic for us today, since some of us are feeling stressed about the upcoming semester! Please keep me in your prayers! I am really excited for this semester and what we will learn. We will be going to clinicals every Friday for Med-Surg. We have to go to orientation this Friday to learn more about our clinicals for this semester and my PEDs orientation is on Monday! Can't wait to see what God has in store for this semester!

MICHIGAN

At the beginning of August Mom, Dad, Brian Jr and I drove to Michigan to visit the Wilson Family!

This summer Danielle and I read the Twilight Series. At one point we were both on the same page!

The night we got to Michigan, Danielle, BJ and I went to a Francesca Batistelli concert.

We had a blast!

I love Michigan skies!

Each year when we go to Michigan we spend some time in DD's classroom. Danielle is a great teacher who loves what she does! Dad, Bj and I were able to help DD set up her classroom. This is one of my favorite things we did in Michigan.

Last day in Michigan

Thanks for having us Josh, Danielle and Annabelle! I love visiting you guys!

OBX

This summer has blown by! Here is a quick update of the rest of my summer. At the end of July we had our annual vacation to the OBX. I love when the whole family can get together! We had a nice relaxing time!

Annabelle Grace

Sisters

My twin

Sand Castle that Karen and I attempted to build. We tried!

I'm thankful to God for a great vacation with the Fam!