In Full Swing
I have just finished my third week of my summer session. A year from now I will be taking the NCLEX (licensing exam to become an RN), and starting a new career. It is all a little unreal to me still.
Much the way that it is still unreal that we, as students, help care for very sick patients. Like the 27-day-old baby girl that I had on Tuesday. She has Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome--basically her heart never developed properly, so the right side of her heart is doing all the work. She has to have 3 surgeries to correct the defect (she has already had the first one), and her heart will never pump like a normal heart. It was just crazy to see that she was bordering on cyanotic (looking blue) and had a low oxygen saturation in her blood (75%--normal people would have about 98-100% oxygen saturation), and yet she was in the process of being discharged from the hospital.
The capability of the human body to adapt and strive for survival is amazing.
Much the way that it is still unreal that we, as students, help care for very sick patients. Like the 27-day-old baby girl that I had on Tuesday. She has Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome--basically her heart never developed properly, so the right side of her heart is doing all the work. She has to have 3 surgeries to correct the defect (she has already had the first one), and her heart will never pump like a normal heart. It was just crazy to see that she was bordering on cyanotic (looking blue) and had a low oxygen saturation in her blood (75%--normal people would have about 98-100% oxygen saturation), and yet she was in the process of being discharged from the hospital.
The capability of the human body to adapt and strive for survival is amazing.
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