Question for your nuses out there...or nursing students...

What was it like giving your first peri care to a patient? Tell me about your experience. I am dying of nervousness and anxiety just thinking about my first time....Oh dear.... :(

Ahhh.

So I have a midterm today. I guess I'm not really prepared. I read the notes and studied a bit and am currently supposed to be studying, but really...who cares about life developpment. Not me! I could care less about these dumb theorists. Is that really going to help me be a better nurse?

Tomorrow I have an anatomy mid-term. Really now. They do it on purpose to cram everything together just to see if you will survive. How rude! I feel like it'll be super heavy. But I know the basics...so Hopefully!!

I get distracted very easily. Blaah.

I did realize that I am bound to have the same marks for the rest of the year...almost anything I've gotten back has been a 78%. Whyyyy. JUST under a 4.0. BRUTAL. Guess I need to try and get my gluteal in gearrrr! Oh I made a funny!

Okay for serious now. Onto finishing my bagel and studying. Hope hope...

Strange experiences!

So I've been super busy lately. Not to mention not home last night. Spent the night at a friends. We were all supposed to weep in sorrow together. Apparently only 12 out of the 62 students in my year passed the professional growth mid-term. Everyone checked their grades (who was at the sleepover) and they all said they had failed. I got really worried, checked my mark and- I passed!! I was so surprised. Not by much, and not a good grade either but I must say a pass in this stance is a lot better than a no-pass. Gives me an advantage to do well for my final mark. Better than if I had not passed it.

I've been doing decently so far. I would love to be doing better. Tomorrow I hand in my first paper and do my second lab quiz! Hopefully all goes well and I do well on the paper..I tried hard!

Off to study...blah :(

Results

So I got my results back. Didn't do as well as I thought...:( But I didn't do that horrible either I mean its definitely acceptable. For a first quiz with a new teacher. And considering everyone else I talked to did horrible.

Off to study for professional growth!

Quicker.

I haven't done much in relation to school this weekend to be quite honest, and its just making me feel dumb.

I have my first test tomorrow and I'm no where near done reading the chapter. And to be honest with you its boring me to death, I thought I was picking a fun, awesome elective, the best one out of the three or four options we had. Turns out its the most boring one. :(

How am I gonna get through this with a decent mark? :(

First Positive Entry!

So believe it or not I am in a pretty good mood. Today we learnt how to bathe patients (partial baths). We practiced on friends! Honestly, it was awesome. I loved being bathed. It was so relaxing. She gave me a massage too! Felt weird with gloves on, but it was good. I enjoyed bathing her too, it was pretty easy and not so scary. We practiced perineal care on mannequins though, and I think that might be the only awkward part about bathing someone. Well, if the person is willing but if the patient isn't...I hope I don't get one of those in my clinical.

Next week we are learning hair washing, hand and foot nail care. Shaving! We get to shave eachothers legs. I think that will be awesome and hilarious!

We had a quiz in lab and I think I did really well. 85% and over! I will let you know when I get it back next wednesday but I am very confident. I did learn all of the body parts :) so I feel rather accomplished. The only things I forgot were what serous membrane surrounds the heart, and a question or two about directions (superior/inferior, lateral, proximal/distal) just because to me that stuff is kind of confusing. I didn't have a life model and we didn't study a human body yet. I think its assumed we know, and I know majority of them but still its nice to have a visual instead of trying to conjure it up in your mind!

I have a sociology of health and illness test on monday. I have to say that class is extremely boring...And then I have a professional growth mid term on thursday. So which means I need to read like 30 pages of Soc (all of chapter 1) and retain all that information. I've started taking notes but its so time consuming when you want to read and understand and make notes. Lets hope I can force myself to trudge through it! I will just...yea. Lol then I gotta get cracking on that assignment and essay! Eeep!

Wish me luck!

The Results.

Are in! Sort of. We did our presentation. Our whole group, presented their parts nose to paper. I didn't, of course being well prepared. And I rocked it! The teacher loved it, and everyone in my group was applauding me and telling me I had done a great job! I remember back in the 11th grade biology my teacher (Remi<3)

I just finished learning all of the abdominal quadrants and such, as well as all of the proper medical terminology for the body parts! It wasn't actually as hard as I was dreading...and feel super prepared for the quiz tomorrow! I know its only a quiz...but I am an overachiever!

Edging towards the brink. Once again.

So I guess I will be starting a count of how many times I break down. I don't really know how I am going to manage, honestly.

First off, I am frustrated in general. I am tired, cranky and stressed out. I have assignments and papers up the wazoo, as well as studying for tests/midterms that are NEXT WEEK when I feel like we haven't even learnt anything really worthwhile, nevermind being tested on it! I'd much rather be tested on making a bed perfectly than attempting to describe all of the ways that you learn things through nursing. Knowledge of nursing, thats it.

Okay so first things first...

We have groups in many of our classes. I think its supposed to promote social interactions and the collaboration of ideas. Well we didn't get to pick this group...And its not turning out well already. We have to present this thing tomorrow, where we were assigned an age group, and had to describe all of the stages through our age group, prominent health issues and all that jazz. Not a big deal except that when me and my partner (BFF in nursing school) Joni, tried to assemble a group meeting to discuss what we were supposed to do no one seemed to really care. When we finally did get them together- they hadn't even started and we had already finished our sections. So we asked them if we were going to put together handouts for the class or a powerpoint of any type. The teacher had said it was going to be a simple presentation but you know, some people are over achievers *cough*. SO anyway. Monday rolls around I.e. today. And I am getting ready to talk to a group mate, Matthew. So I ask him what he had done. First off, he announces that him and the other girl in our group Ellaha got together and put together a slide show without even telling the rest of us (there are five of us in total). Not only that but they did it without including our parts. So the slideshow would look incomplete and as if we had not done anything. They didn't call, or e-mail or ANYTHING to let us know what was going on...So we ended up doing an emergency get together and telling Ellaha that we wanted in on this. We're supposed to work as a group...she said ok send me your stuff. So we did. She just wrote back saying that we would look at it tomorrow. How are we going to manage that? We have to present it tomorrow, and she never mentioned that she wanted to get together any time for anything before class, so how would I know if she wanted to get together before class? This is so frustrating. Our first group project and we're pretty much doing our own projects but we're supposed to be a group.

So that frustrates me to no end. Plus the fact that some people need to get serious and do the work. I like to get together and do homework, not get there and have the other one chat around with everyone who comes to visit and gets nothing done then freaks out that I finished my work and they are still not complete.

So far this blog is nothing but negatives, which is kind of making me sad. But its hard, really. And I don't know what to do about being constantly tired. I wake up from a full night of sleep, all ready for school. Get to class and feel like falling asleep, feel my head going down and my eyes closing and it is so hard to stop it. Not that I don't want to pay attention its like I can't, my body won't physically let me do it. No matter how much sleep I get, how much coffee I drink. Is there something wrong with me?

Bladfkajsfljkalfkajd. I am so tired I think I should just go to bed. Gotta get up semi-early to finalize my part of the presentation and just get my stuff together. I wish it was the weekend :(

The Beginning.

Its not really. Not for me, I've been at it for about two and a half weeks now. Unbelievably, it feels as though its only been a week! And we've already got a midterm and a huge test next week. How will I manage? Who knows. We will see if I can manage to find the time to retain any information. Especially the boring stuff. Why me?

So this blog, for anyone who is joining me, this is the beginning of my foray into the nursing profession. Yeah yeah, don't even get me started on professionalism or if its even a profession- we are discussing that in school enough that I don't want to hear any more of it outside of those classroom walls!

I am a first year student at a prestigious nursing school, working towards my BScN.

So far I've already had one break down. I am sure as hell there will be tons more on the way. This is my journey...feel free to join me if you're in the same boat as me!

Gotta get back to my clinical readings. Get to learn the theory behind personal hygiene of the patient!