cant see my first

I went looking to see my first blog and cant. So I will add this one too. I don’t have a very focused topic like I did for the other 4. These are just some things I see. I find my self watching people more now in clinical than I did before. What brings the residents joy and what brings us the students joy. I love the fact that the residents are able to get such enjoyment form very simple things. Students are in some ways the same. When we don’t have papers do on Mon or get to sleep in these simple things bring us joy too. In other ways I envy the residents in there simplicity. I interact with a man that can barely speak and relies on other people for most every task. I do not like asking for help for anything there is some things for me to learn hear I hope I pay attention to all of it.

computer or mind you decide.

Passing meds, I don’t like computers and the passing of the meds didn’t help. I know how to use the EMR at work but the new system at the extended care facility is annoying. I guess it puts me in the position of my resident a bit. He has to do things for the first time even when he has before just because he does not remember. Sometimes I see it in his eyes that he knows that he should know something but can’t get it out. How much more annoying is that when it is not a computer but your own mind that wont do as you ask.

Bowling

Bowling at the facility is awesome. I love bowling and to see the residents interacting, talking trash to one another is grate. Seeing this really gives me hope for when I get to be in there shoes. My resident is more alive during these few hours than he is for most of the week and more like he used to be. Nothing like the power of bowling :)

day 2

Day two again it is the unexpected that seems to be affecting me the most. I find the feeding of a person that can not do it for them selves very powerful, even more than the feeding of a baby. I guess it is because they could have been the ones that feed us when we were babies. It is one of the most basic skills to feed your self and to be the one providing that strikes me in a very deep way.

first day of clinicals

The first day of clinic ales was interesting. I said I really did not want to do pari care and I had to do it three times in the last hour of the very first day. It taught me a very big lesson in humility and in the fact that it is a necessary thing not only for health but in respects as well. The early morning is also reminding me of just doing what you must to get to your goals.