Send A Man To Nursing School

Tonight was the last class of the last course of pre-req’s!

YAY

Only four more semesters to go!

Three very short weeks until the nursing program begins.  While not a vacation for me, it’ll be darn close.  SU has taken over most of the household duties, per our agreement, though next week we’ll share as it’s her first week at the new job.  Just orientation crap though.

All I’ll have for the next three weeks is my regular full-time job.  After having had three jobs, the house, school, and the job, this will sorta seem like a vacation.

Fear not, I won’t get bored.  I have books to read.  I plan to work ahead with some of SU’s nursing materials, and a mile long honey-do list.

Luckily we had a weekend away this past weekend, and this coming weekend we’re going away too.  The closest we’ll see of a vacation this year.  But exciting times are ahead!

I was hoping to have a picture to post with this, but alas, no.  So I’ll write this up anyway.

I wanted to report that there was a victim from the BLS training.

Upon getting home I went to change into shorts and found that my underwear had ripped wide open from top to bottom!

The sacrifices I’ll make to save a life

I guess the tromping around in my knees was more than it could bear (bare?)!

Is this too funny or what…

I will graduate nursing school one month after my current AARP membership expires!
LOL

That’s BLS not BS!  As in Basic Life Support.

Just got my certification.  Now I’m officially certified to save your life!  Well, at least attempt to do so

SU sat for the NCLEX this past Sunday, and today the results are in:  She PASSED!!

YAY - SU, RN!

I’m sooooo proud!

Got an A

(without having to do the extra credit)

Tonight is the final A&P class, using class loosely as it will only consist of the last test.
Post test, SU & I (and hopefully a few classmates) will be lifting a couple of celebratory brews to bring a conclusion to this train wreck.

That leaves three more weeks of Religion class to finish out the pre-req’s.
Excepting one minor medical information item that I’m getting for the nursing school, I’m all set to matriculate into the nursing program. YAY

Three more weeks of only one class/week, and then three weeks of vacation (well, except for that full-time job thing).  That leaves some upcoming free time, and, being me, I started developing a plan for that time. (Favorite sayings about myself: I put the Anal in Retentive, and I love spontaneity so long as I have time to plan it out.)

Remember how, when you were real young, on the first day back to school the teacher would make us write a short essay about “What I did on my summer vacation?”  I’m kind of the opposite, here is what I plan to do on my summer vacation.

• Use my free Tuesdays to start looking ahead at some of the nursing material
• Read (currently on the list: Couplehood, The Ninetheenth Wife)
• Improving my Photo Reading skills
• Work on this site and accompanying store
• 1,001 Honey-do’s
• Donate platelets
• Celebrate SUs NCLEX

Note: A special congratulations to VolleyBallGirl on her kick-ass score on wee-wee’s and woo-woo’s!

The moment we have been waiting for: SU finally has her testing date for the NCLEX:

June 21st, 2009!

I’ve enjoyed the last few weeks to a month as she’s started to take on some of the household duties, but now they again are all mine as she goes head-down-ass-up with the final preparation push for the big test.

I know she’s going to kick it to the curb!

I can’t believe it’s been almost three months since I began the A&P course.
While things are better, they are still problematic, but not enough to derail a good grade luckily.

I’m rather disappointed, not because it was full of issues, but because I had looked so forward to the material. I have visions of weekly updates to this blog with my study notes. But, alas, when you have to memorize entire chapters to be sure have any esoteric trivia that might be on the test in mind…how do you distill that in to a post? The worst part is that there has been little to no learning because of that approach. Luckily the nursing school is prepared for this and will teach of what we really need to know. (I’m also very thankful for the Podcasts of Dr. Cizadlo from St. Scholastica (Duluth, MN) for giving me the real education on this material.)

Last test is next week. He’s dropped the final chapter from lecture which means the test will be on one short chapter (Urinary) instead of two (he dropped reproductive…another disappointment, go through all this and he drops what to me is the most interesting chapter…maybe I should be an embryologist?).

There talk of having a post course bonfire to burn all our Power Point slides - LOL.

For several months friends and family having been saying to me, “you’re almost done.” Well, no I wasn’t. But now, yes! This past week was the final in Sociology, leaving only 2 more classes and 3 tests in A&P and 5 weeks of Religion. I think it’s now safe to say I’m almost done.

Things are much, much better in A&P. Not really due to administration. The meeting we had was a joke. The focus was about them admonishing us for not following protocol in resolving the issues when we did exactly what they told us to do when we had orientation. But, all said and done, the past couple of weeks have been more in line with what the class should be and we are good for the ride into these last weeks. He even gave out an assignment to let people earn extra credit and boost their grade.

SU’s graduation was fantastic! It was a nice ceremony and we had an intimate luncheon with family afterwards. The only odd thing was the recognition of the honor students during the ceremony. The recognized anyone with a 3.0 or better! Three quarters of the students stood up! I felt so bad for the few who didn’t stand up. I have no clue what the reasoning was for such a thing as it served the exact opposite of what it should.

The best part for SU is that now she is fully done (for now!) and awaits her test date. And with visiting relations now gone she can get back to studying and test prep.