2/24/26

Today I had a simulation day for my maternal-newborn clinical, so I got up at 6 AM, got ready, studied for maybe a minute, and left because we had to be there by 7:00.

I got to SEMO and went up to the second floor where they were meeting, and the first thing we did was take a "ticket to class" which was a twelve question quiz that we had to get at least an 8/12 on to participate today. And she also said if we fail this, we fail the whole clinical. So I studied for several hours for this yesterday, so I was kind of confident, but when we got the quiz, I was so scared. I felt like I didn't know any of the questions. I was one of the last people to finish, and I ended up getting a 9/12 somehow. But I had to guess on some. The questions were like, which communication method should you use, what's the breathing pattern for compressions, where should the resuscitation leader stand, and none of this was what I studied. My watch gave me a notification that I had a high resting heartrate while taking it.

But after that was done, we went to the assessment lab, some lady talked to us for a while, she put us into groups (we were group 2), and then we went to the stations. There were three stations, one for delivery, one for NRP after delivery, and one for SBAR. So we did the delivery one first with Dudley, then the NRP one with the other lady. For that one, we practiced listening to a manikin baby's heartrate and there was this duck with a hat IV stand in the room that I was obsessed with. We also had to give breaths to the little baby. Then SBAR was just working on some papers and examples. I started feeling sick in the middle of this and left to go take a dump. Don't know what was up with that. Maybe because we had to do check-offs at the end of the day today and I was nervous. We started check-offs eventually and Paige said she'd do them with me since I didn't have a partner, but then Panashe said he'd be my partner even though he was also Zach's partner. The check-offs took forever, each group took like 20 minutes and there were probably 12 groups. So we were waiting for over an hour. Panashe and Zach went, and I was gonna go after them so Panashe could just go back-to-back, but Tanya said she had work, so I let her go and me and Panashe had to wait another 20 or 30 minutes. So it was around 12:30 by the time we went, and it went pretty good. I was really nervous, but I didn't do that bad. She asked the four pre-birth questions, then we had thirty seconds to set up the room, then the baby was born, and they had this manikin baby all covered in this vernix stuff, Panashe did most of the stuff in this room and I was just standing there. Then we went to the other room and I did the breaths and the MRSOPA stuff while Panashe did the heartrate. And that was basically it, we passed. Then we went and had to fill out some other forms afterwards for a while, and we were out of there before 1 PM.

the only picture of the duck on all the internet

After class, I went to Nana's and slept from 2 to 4:30 on the couch, played Terraria, and then my mom brought some sushi here after calling. So that was yummy. She also brought some McDonald's chicken nuggets from my dad. Then I just played some piano and goofed around a bit until it was time for work, and I left for that at 6:15.

I was surprisingly the only transporter tonight. Usually Rylee would be here or someone who's training. But it was just me, and it luckily wasn't very busy. Just some ER transports, nothing crazy. But this was my first time back on the neuro floor on the fourth floor. I guess they finally got done with the renovations and opened it back up. So that'll be different, they've been working on that probably since October. And it looks basically the same up there, the floors are just more modern. But yeah, for the last couple hours I don't think I had any transports and I ended up just playing Survev.io and Terraria on my laptop. The State of Union Address was playing on the TV behind me, so I listened to that, too. And that was it.

I went home afterwards, watched YouTube, listened to music, ate some sushi, and made green beans on the stove because I was hungry for them. Then I watched an episode of Only Fools and Horses and fell asleep on the couch.

So today was probably a 5. Kind of boring.