My "to do" list

Between working as an L&D nurse (one hospital), and doing clinicals (another hospital, plus the office locations), I am so busy!  But, I am loving every minute of it!  I learn something new each time I am in clinical.  Haven't been able to add any more babies to my running tally (to the right), but I hope to change that in the next few days!

In the meanwhile, I have plenty of other things I'm working on:

-- Reflection for advanced women's health
-- Group project (two of us in the group this time) for advanced women's health
-- Getting started on the research portion of my antepartum case study, which is not due until next term, but I'm getting a jump start on it
-- Keeping my eye out for a good intrapartum case study project (also will be due next term)
-- Keeping my eye out for a good follow through patient for the postpartum/newborn journal assignment.  This assignment requires following a mother baby couplet for up to 8 weeks postpartum.  BIG assignment, lots of points, and must be done before I start the winter term in January.
-- Keeping track of each prenatal patient I see, so hopefully I will have (at some point!) five continuity patients to follow through from antepartum, to birth, to postpartum.
-- A side project in the early planning stages that I wish to present to my clinical site (the office).  It's a patient education piece on nausea and vomiting of pregnancy, with a comprehensive teaching tool for non-pharmaceutical methods of relief.  This is a major topic of discussion and education at the new prenatal appointments.  I really feel that a clear, well written patient education handout would be prudent for the practice.  Giving someone a verbal list of things to try, or writing it down on scrap paper, well, it just doesn't seem complete or professional enough in my mind.  I'm grateful that my preceptor is big on handouts in her practice.  Although, it seems that time used to run to the computer to print out ACNM Sharing with Women handouts, then running to the printer, then going back to the patient, seems very un-streamlined.  I feel that a pre-made patient education handout (for many topics, not just this one) would be beneficial to the practice.  Heck, while I'm at it, I may end up writing an entire "discomforts of pregnancy" booklet!