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Clinical started with all of us meeting in the main lobby of Methodist Northlake Hospital. I was a bit nervous for I was going to be a student nurse manager for people I never met before. I didn’t know if they would take me seriously. I took a long breathe in and slow exhale out, before I introduced myself to the clinical group. We then headed to the Labor and Delivery floor to change out of our clothing and into hospital scrubs. This was new for me, for I didn’t have to this for my old clinical. But I thought to myself it makes sense to do it. Afterwards we took a tour of the labor and delivery floor. I was surprised to see an isolation room for a laboring mother and baby. It just never crossed my mind that maybe one would be needed. Professor Lugar stated that the room is being used as a catch all for the time being. Then we toured the emergency ceseasan room, but before we entered the professor showed the group and I how to scrub our hands and arms properly. We carefully scrub two at a time, while scrubbing we had an opportunity to ask each other what area of nursing interest …show more content…
After post conference was over Professor Lugar dismissed the clinical group and we discussed what she wanted me to do. We talked about presenting an article of interest related to an ethical issue in OB. We decided on No Mas Bebes, a documentary on women’s right issues. The documentary tells the story of a small town in California where a small group of Mexican migrant women sued county doctors, the state, and the U.S. government after they were sterilized while giving birth at a Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center during the late 1960s and late 1970s. I’ll be presenting the article on November 9th. This topic sparked an interest for me and I look forward to researching it further. I did not take a lunch break today because we were not there long enough to take

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