Been kinda MIA on a blog-level.
Just a quick update on my clinicals:
• I just finished my second week/4th night.
• I’m starting to feel a little less so dang nervous I want to barf.
• I think I’m getting the hang of hooking up patients with a million wires and electrodes.
• 12 hour night shifts are much more doable than they sound.
• 12 hour night shifts mean a LOT of coffee.
• 12 hour night shifts also mean a lot of Queen sing-alongs.
• I’m pretty awesome at the looking at hundreds and hundreds of pages of brain waves and determining what sleep stage it is. Also known as “scoring” the study.
• My trainer is a crazy person.
• 12 hour night shifts mean lots of fake accents.
• I hear so many weird snores and sounds coming from people on a nightly basis.
• There is SO MUCH more to do and get done before leaving in the morning than you would think, at the lab I’m at in particular.
• My trainer is a crazy person.
• Every patient so far has been extremely nice. I’m waiting for my inevitable awful patient who will make me want to quit.
• 12 hour night shifts mean a lot of spontaneous jump kicks to stay awake.
• The more I work my sleep job, the more I hate my government job, and the more I want to quit, but then the more I realize I’m broke, so then the more I need to suck it up.
• Scrubs are the comfiest ever. It’s like wearing pajamas to work.
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