Send A Man To Nursing School

And so begins the second year of nursing school.
NICUNurse asked me about my first week back.
I promptly replied “It felt like standing underneath a rock slide.”
And thus ends summer break.

” Those were the days
We’d lay in the haze
Forget depressive times”
B. Taupin
The week started out fast and sped up from there.
20 hours of lecture, 4 [...]

Done and in the books.
Just waiting on the grade to be posted.
Clinical final eval is 0830 Tuesday.
Followed by a busy Wednesday of Black Banding rehearsal and the school tea.
This is the school’s 115th year! Wow
On an additional note….I was so busy with project work and final prep that it didn’t even dawn on me [...]

Spending a good deal of time studying for the final coming up on Monday.
Luckily I have my own personal, private tutor to help guide me through it all…

Unit V exam done and in the books.
Final in one week.
And then a week full of school ceremony type activities.
Seems like I’d never get to this point and now it’s kinda surreal.
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Update 5/11 09:15
Test scores are up.
I’ve technically passed the semester going in to the final.
Working now to defend my current grade with the [...]

Today was the very last clinical day for second semester. YAY
Not sure how I feel about the way they are wrapping it up though. We get our clinical evaluation and final grade from our last clinical instructor.
The way that my rotations fell, my last instructor is someone I had for two half days. [...]

Item on list of RN school goals:
Ace a test - Check!!

Unit IV exam done.
Project presentation is finally gaining form and participation.
Video taping of prerecorded segments is scheduled for Thu/Fri of this week.

They have taken the “real” L&D clinical rotation out of our program and we now have a couple of days of L&D simulation lab. Today was day 1. I was the midwife. I tried to be the laboring mother, but no dice.
Some insights about birth plans:

They should be made 10 months before [...]

<begin whining>
Group projects will be the death of me.
How do you get people to pull their weight and do an equitable effort in a group project?
Particularly when only 20% of the grade is individual and they count on the rest of you to pull the ride for them?
Ugh
</end whining>
Any suggestions on evoking participation or how [...]

I’ve been remiss and let this blog stagnate just as I didn’t want to happen.
Today I am starting the second week of a three week break.  SU and I halfway through a much needed, and almost completely cost free, vacation in Mexico (you might want to know that paradise apparently has wi-fi :)).  Hopefully this [...]