Restless.

I'm getting restless. The end of my internship is a little more than 3 months away, and I'm getting extremely restless. Especially with the end of my clinical rotation coming to an end here in a few weeks - I only have the rest of this week in the NICU, then a bone marrow transplant (BMT) rotation, a clinical nutrition management, and an elective week, then done. It doesn't help that I'm getting dehydrated every other day and my sleep schedule is always messed up from the weekends.

What is nice about being in a rotation for 2 weeks straight is that I get to see how my patients do over the weekend. It is even better when it's in the NICU because on Friday I helped the medical residents make the TPN orders. My little twin boys are doing great, their hyperbilirubinemia (high levels of bilirubin in the blood, which if it lasts too long, can indicate liver issues) has resolved, as well as they're continuing to grow! I have been assigned 2 new patients that I'll continue to watch throughout the week and make TPN recommendations on. This week I'm expected to be the one speaking up in rounds...exciting! The fact that I've taken the time to get to know the medical residents has worked to my advantage - it's made this part of the rotation less intimidating.

As far as my elective week, I asked my current preceptor if I could do my elective week in the NICU, and she turned me down. She said she thought I did great, but thought that it'd be in my best interest to do an elective week where I'd get more varied experience. So, I asked my preceptor from last week in the PICU, if I could do my rotation there, and she accepted! One less thing to worry about at the moment.

For the elective week, I can basically go anywhere and/or do any rotation. Which means I could go to another hospital or facility and complete a week there. The only issue with going to another facility is that I feel like it'd take me 2-3 of the 5 days total just to figure out their charting system and find my way around. Plus, I really enjoyed the PICU rotation as well as the preceptor for that rotation, and of course I'm sure there will be some interesting patients for the week.

Anywho, just another day gone...looking forward to tomorrow because it's Tuesday and that means I'd only have 4 (full) days left of this rotation. I'm so looking forward to finally be getting a paycheck...hopefully?

95 days.