This month I began my clinical experiences. I started with a week at a diabetes outpatient center. It is a teaching hospital where there are a lot of medical students and interns. As part of that environment, everyone is on top of their research. It was amazing not only to learn about counseling those with diabetes but seeing drugs and products that had been FDA approved for less than a year being used on a regular basis. I feel like some of the monitors and medications they use won't be used for years in other places. It was a great experience to be with CDEs and learn from them.
After the outpatient center, I started at the hospital where I will be until April. I remember at the end of the first day feeling so overwhelmed and wondering how I could ever learn enough to keep up. Now just a few weeks later, I still have a lot to learn, but I’m also realizing how much I have learned both in school and since being here. I am often given the opportunity to be assigned one or two floors to be in charge of for the day. The dietitian I am working with will check my work, and explain things, but also let me first try by myself and see what I come up with and what things I miss. I’ve been given the opportunity to help figure out countless tube feeds and multiple TPNs. Each time I help with nutrition support calculations, I learn something new from the dietitians.
I’m loving my clinical experience. I feel like every day brings something new that I can learn from. I look forward to the next few months of learning and working alongside these dietitians.
After the outpatient center, I started at the hospital where I will be until April. I remember at the end of the first day feeling so overwhelmed and wondering how I could ever learn enough to keep up. Now just a few weeks later, I still have a lot to learn, but I’m also realizing how much I have learned both in school and since being here. I am often given the opportunity to be assigned one or two floors to be in charge of for the day. The dietitian I am working with will check my work, and explain things, but also let me first try by myself and see what I come up with and what things I miss. I’ve been given the opportunity to help figure out countless tube feeds and multiple TPNs. Each time I help with nutrition support calculations, I learn something new from the dietitians.
I’m loving my clinical experience. I feel like every day brings something new that I can learn from. I look forward to the next few months of learning and working alongside these dietitians.