Well I seriously was slacking in by blog posting for the summer.  Here it is the last week before finals and I’m finally posting a blog.  Probably because I had to cram everything in to 10 weeks!! Yes, I only had 7 credits, but as you know grad credits seem to have more work involved with them.  On top of that I also had another 196 hours of clinical to complete. The amount of work involved in this semester was intense to say the least.  Besides my usual patient write ups which I had to do just about every week, there was a 30 page State of the Science paper, among others, I had to do for research class….yea don’t even ask!  But if you must know, it was a literature review/critique, implementaion of evidence based practice, and ideas for future research of airway pressure release ventilation in acute respiratory distress syndrome. Now aren't you glad you asked?!

I had my adult rotation this semester.  My clinical sites were at long-term care facilities and in a hematologist/oncologist office where I got to see out and inpatients.  I had a real broad range of medicine between the 2 and both were very interesting. In the long-term care I was amazed by the autonomy the NP had!  It’s actually a little daunting knowing you’re the one making the decisions on how to treat the patient.  There is always an attending physician to call but you’re the first line!

 At least I had a 3 week break before classes started for the summer…so I got a little bit of a break.  I went to Colorado then off to California where I spent some serious time on the beach!  I have another break the end of August so I hear the beach calling my name again!

Finals here I come!