We spent all morning working on case studies and calculations. Thank god the coffee pot kept getting refilled. I seemed to be chugging it like it was water and I'd been walking through the desert all week. Except it was coffee and I'm an intern who just got out of bed and was forced to rack my brain. Calculations went well though...seems to all be coming back to me pretty quickly. Case studies are a little more difficult; there's just so much to look up from medications, food-medication interactions, side effects, labs, abbreviations, diagnoses, calorie contents. And then trying to put it all together in one very complex puzzle. It's a lot of work, but it can actually be a lot of fun. And once I start working with charts, I'm hoping my brain can absorb everything. I know it will be overwhelming for awhile though.
Here's some footage from our morning..
Some of the ladies in my group
For lunch today we had vegetarian spinach wraps. I meant to take a picture to show you the size of this monster that I ate ALL of, but I always forget to take pictures of my food. Probably because all I can think to do is eat. I love wraps, especially when they are green.
We then hopped on the bus to the computer lab. We were told by the administrators of the iPod Touches to put together a little power-point of pictures taken throughout the week with our i Pods and present today. I agreed to present my groups power-point because I feel I need to get better at public speaking. CRAZY right?! I've never volunteered to speak in front of a big group. What's even crazier is that I actually had fun doing it. I had no idea what I was going to say and just "wung it". And it was pretty liberating!
We took some online quizzes for HIPAA, and discrimination policies. Also, a new intern pre-test, which we were all pretty freaked out about. And we all found out that we still have things to learn...which I think was the point behind it. Anyway, we got out a half hour early today, which was obviously very exciting.
I then had to find the student health center on this gargantuan campus of ISU. Why? Because even though I had the chicken pox when I was a little person, Mercy hospital still feels the need to test my blood to prove immunity. So I had what's called a titre. Now, my history behind giving blood is nonexistent due to the fact that my veins are what they call "difficult". I've given up on donating and when I tried giving blood last semester for a research project they poked me about five times before they gave up trying to draw my blood. So when I walked into this room and saw this needle connected to a very large empty tube, I panicked a bit and warned this STUDENT that was going to take my blood that I had "difficult veins". She just kinda chuckled, jabbed the needle in my arm, and I couldn't believe how fast she had that tube filled. And I could barely feel it. Relief.
Whitney, my roommate for the week, and I decided to eat supper at Panera Bread since it's a WiFi hotspot and we wanted to play with our iPod Touches. I got the usual, mediterranean sandwich with black bean soup and a coffee. Also something picture worthy that I inhaled before the thought came to mind.
One more day of orientation and then home!!
"Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses". Alphonse Karr
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