Wednesday Already !?!?!?

Most people are joyous at the prospect of friday being only two days away, but I am digging in my heels to avoid having to go back to school. I should be overjoyed by the fact that I only have 7 weeks of nursing school left, but going back also means that it's time for us to get back to clinicals and all the expectations that go along with it. Perhaps I'm having a hard time because this quarter is supposed to be about learning how to juggle/manage 4-6 patients at a time. Hmmm, haven't I been doing that for a year already ???? Oy veh....it's craziness. Utter....craziness. On the bright side, the sooner it goes by the sooner we can have a huge party to celebrate being done with nursing school. :) Whoo....party on ladies and gentlemen.

Party On...

Sorry it took me so long to put this up there, but thanks everybody for helping me celebrate my "almost 30" birthday. It was a blast going to "OG" as raines now calls it and enjoying some feasting and whining about life as a nursing student. It was an amazing way to kick off the Christmas break. Hope you're all living it up b/c I know I will be. Well, let's work hard and play hard so the next 7 weeks will fly by.

Is Anyone Out There ????????

With 82 days left of the nursing program I think we've all fallen into the same trap. The lights are on, but "no one's home." I look around the classroom during lectures and everyone has the same "blank" look that I try to play off as fatigue. Maybe it's because the faculty is droning on and on about things that we've been doing since Health Assessment and Art and Science. Then again nothing can compare to the "Office for Freshman" class that I'm taking. It's quite interesting. I mean really if you can't type and format a document by the time you get to college what have you been doing for the past 18 years of your life ??? Seriously. The kids that are starting college now were brought up with computers. It mystifies me how they don't know things like opening documents etc. I almost had a heart attack when we had to buy floppy diskettes to save our information on. Ya...I remember when they were 5.25 inches square. Now those were floppy disks. Whoo..party on wayne. Well, I guess I'd better get back to "formatting" my document for homework so that I can get the heck out of dodge and head back to the "real world" where I'm working instead of "goofing off."

85 more days of Senioritis.

Yep that's right, 85 more days of nursing school and the senioritis is getting bad. My classmates and I find it more and more difficult on a daily basis to participate in the activities associated with getting to graduation. I'm working on my SLP points, which I have to get done if I want to get out of there on time. 6 more to go. Then I'm taking this computer class which is like Office for Dummies. I think it'll be good though because it should be an instant gpa booster which serves me well in applying to graduate programs b/c they want to focus on your g.p.a. in your last 30 hours. No problem. I'll take it. I do have a problem with sitting around with people that I've known for the past 3 years doing stupid "role playing" and "case studies." Oy VEH they're killing us. I mean if we're at this level...getting ready to graduate I'm sure we know what to do with ourselves. I can understand trying to teach us how to prioritize our patients, but come on the other stuff has go to go. Like we're going to get out of nursing school and immediately start trying to get everybody on some bandwagon for this, that or the other. Gimme a break. Our whole first year will be spent just making sure we don't kill someone. Right ??? Alrighty, off to go get our "board" work done. I.e. fingerprint cards and passport photos. Oh the joy !!!