I can finally say that I only have but a year of schooling remaining—it’s a scary but exhilarating thought. My name is Stacey and I am a Senior 1 nursing student; I am excited to share my adventures at ASU with you all.
The semester is well underway. It is my third year as a Community Assistant (CA) on the ASU Tempe campus, and I am currently responsible for a floor of forty rowdy freshman. I absolutely love being their CA because they bring so much life to ASU with their high energy and desire to be involved on-campus.
In order to prepare for the arrival of my freshmen on January 3rd, I was up late several nights in a row decorating the hall, trying my best to make it feel like home. One of my responsibilities as a CA is to make floor decorations and name tags for all their doors. The hard work that I put into making the floor look its best paid off as they began to arrive and I got to see them for the first time in a few weeks. Don’t tell them this, but I definitely missed them over break—our floor was way too quiet. We call ourselves the ‘Penthouse’ because we are on the highest floor in our complex (seventh!) and the view from our floor over the ASU campus is breath-taking.
Just as I got my residents settled in, my first class began bright and early at 7:30 am on Thursday January 5th. Because my classes are at the Downtown campus and I live on the Tempe campus, I have to allow a little extra time for the commute. My freshman and sophomore year I used to take the light rail (which is like a train) to class, but I finally have my own car and am able to just drive myself.
This semester I will be studying maternity, childbirth, and pediatrics (children). Our first day of class was a lab day in which we got hands on experience. I learned about how to take care of a pregnant woman before and after she gives birth. I also was taught how to do an initial fetal assessment, in other words, how to make sure that a newborn baby is healthy.
One of the interesting topics we discussed was breastfeeding. This picture is one of my classmate, Brandon. Our professor demonstrated how to hold a baby for optimal breastfeeding! When she asked him how it felt he said “it just feels right.” Our class was laughing hysterically as we watched Brandon demonstrate effective breastfeeding.
In nursing school, you have to practice everything on one another. Including putting on briefs!
This is a picture of my classmate giving me a subcutaneous injection in lab.
No comments:
Post a Comment