On to my clinicals!

Well I finally finished up the class room portion of my school now I'm onto the clincials/externship part of it. This is definatly not what I expected. I ended up getting to work (mind you it's for free, kinda like slave labor) for Heart Care which is a part of St. John's in Joplin. It's hard getting the kids to there places and me to Joplin, from Carthage, by 8am. Chet's been working a lot of overtime so it's just me getting the kids were they need to go. When I said slave labor that's exactly what I meant, I have to watch alot of things they do, I do get to do BP's and pulse rate and sometimes weight but that's pretty much it. I'm not using much of anything else I learnt. Oh they did have me calling and verifying appointments, filing, faxing prescriptions and referrals. I'm pretty good at using a copier and a fax machine, I can say that, if its the one thing I get to do I guess I will do it to the best of my ability. Most of the medications the patients are on I can not pronounce, and man is there a lot. Some patients are on 10/15+ medications. WOW!!!

I can say I am greatly disappointed but I will grin and bare it as a learning experience. LOL So with all of that being said, I'm sorry I haven't posted as much as normal, with school and studying for finals, and then my big Registered Medical Assistant test last weekend. I've been a bit stressed out. But today I am going to work on a few things I've been wanting to get done. First I owe my daughter a paper pumpkin for her daycare class to display, the two of us are going to work on it together. Who knows what we will come up with. Then I owe my mom and myself our calender page for October, yes mom I am very sorry I will get that done today hopefully. Then I might try doing something else fun, but first I want to spend the day with my kiddos. So I guess I better get off of here and get to work uh.

Your friend,

Amber Korn