Clinicals

This week was the first full week of clinicals, and I'm lovin' it! I'm on Telemetry (cardiac) floor, which is not too intense, but exciting none-the-less. I like having a variety of pts, and more acute problems to deal /c than in the nursing home. The Tele unit if for anyone who needs to be on a portable heart monitor, which includes some surgery pts (i.e. those who had nasal surgery), so not everyone here is a potential MI. Many of the pts have Chief Complaints pertaining to something entirely different from cardiac, but they have some cardiac component. For instance, one of my pts came in /c gastroenteritis but was on Tele b/c he also presented /c tachycardia. It was determined that this was likely d/t the gastroenteritis...