Just a Few More Weeks...

First nursing class (NUR 100: Intro to Nursing) is finished... My first A of official nursing school. whew!

I am still taking NUR 226: Health Assessment and that will end in a few weeks (end of July). Enjoying the class but the final demo/exam is freaking us all out. In an ideal world we'd be doing a full head-to-toe exam to prove we know our stuff, but that would take us AT LEAST an hour and of course the faculty does not want to endure that for each student. I don't blame them. So it will be a lottery draw and my lab partner and I will each draw a different assessment to do. Unlike the tests up to this point, we won't be doing write-ups, we'll be verbalizing what we see and do (and what we are looking for) WHILE we do it. If we forget something but remember it later, we can still get full credit for it. So it's not like we have to be absolutely perfect. We just have to remember everything and what we are looking for. I've made 100's on all the assignments to date and hoping I can do the same for test 3...so that if I completely come unglued for the final demo--I will still hopefully get an A in the class.

Just started NUR 135: Dosage Calculations. Interesting. I hope I'm learning what I need to learn. It's a five week class and we only meet once/week. So far it's just been very confusing and lots of time wasted in a classroom of 20-25 students. It's amusing how there can be 3 conversations going on at one time--a lot like high school.  I can do the problems in the textbook and can do most of the problems on the worksheets we are given...but I keep wondering what it is that I might not be understanding. Problem is that we don't get the answers for the worksheets...so we don't have a way to check ourselves to know if we know what we are doing. It's i.n.t.e.r.e.s.t.i.n.g.

I have registered for my fall NUR 108 (Nursing I) and its 3 components (lecture, skill lab, clinical). I have clinical on Wednesdays (prep will be on Tuesdays, I think), skills lab will be on Thursday afternoons and lecture/theory will be on Friday mornings. All the day nursing students will be together for lecture--so I'll get to see who all is in my cohort. Did find out that one gal from my church is in the day program with me. We are in the Dosage class together. Nice to have a friendly face.

And then there's the stress of finishing things out at the church. My last day is August 11. And no replacement confirmed. I had hoped that he/she would be decided upon and able to start observing/working by August 18...so I'm freak'n from time to time. The last thing is for me to be all stressed out during my last week or two of the semester. argh.