Respiratory Care Lab

I have been meaning to write a blog for awhile, and I finally got a quick minute to write about school.

As of right now, I love the program. I finally feel like I am going somewhere in school, instead of running circles in the introductory classes. 

This semester I have Anatomy and Physiology of Cardiopulmonary, Respiratory Procedures, Respiratory Procedures Lab,  Intro to Respiratory Care and Respiratory Pharmacology. 

 I actually learned how to do a lot of these things at work. I can not explain how helpful work has been while taking these classes, or how much taking an upper level A&P has helped.
My favorite class so far is probably Respiratory Procedures Lab. Mostly because we get to play with a bunch of very cool instruments.

For example, the one above is a vest that fills up with air and starts to shake you. It is not violent and I think it feels like a big hug that shakes you internally. We spend the majority of lab practicing our new found skills on each other. The instrument seen below is called an Acapella. You breathe into it and helps loosen the mucous from your lungs. This is normally done before you do a nebulizer treatment.

Lab is serious business for the majority of the time. Except, on Thursday, we all seem to get a little slap happy from such a long week of continuous studying. 

As for me, I tend to study a lot. Mostly because I am waiting for the bus, and I need to keep up in my classes. In the library my desk normally looks like this.

I have my computer, books, folders, notebooks, binders, homework, workbooks, power cords, and a whole lot of notecards. If I get a study room with a whiteboard my rooms looks more like this. (I do love whiteboards.)

Sometimes you just need to take a break from school and get coffee. Since, I don't have a coffee maker at school, I tend to go to Starbucks and get an afternoon coffee, because without it I would not make it home awake.

Time to get back to studying, I have midterms next week.