Jumping Right In...

The first week of this semester we had our skills lab to learn how to do IV insertion. It was wayyy too much fun.

Here is my lab and clinical partner, Michelle, attempting access.

This is Justin who is also in our clinical group. He is in the Navy(he did something medical--imunizations and such), so it's nice because he's already done all of this and can show us all the tricks.

My first try.

She got it! He was definitely a bleeder! ;) (fake blood. haha) I got it! This is my crazy nurse face. Nice, isn't it?

After reviewing these photos, we realized that we have very bad body mechanics and will always raise up the bed so that we don't kill our backs. These are the things you never knew you'd learn in nursing school.

And I'll end with a quote from Michelle's facebook:

"Nothing is good about these pictures! Blood everywhere! An arm but no body! Pure joy at the thought of sticking a needle into a human body...its all just wrong..."