Christmas Break

So far I've really enjoyed the break from all the reading. But I'm also very excited to start the next semester! My break has been good. I'm loving the time with family and friends. I feel nerdy cause I'm excited to use my new bookbag when I get back to classes. My old one wasn't cutting it with our massive books so I asked for one for Christmas. I'm also planning on getting another pair or two of the cargo scrubs pants. I like them so much better than the flares.

End of my first semester

I've finished my first semester as a nursing student with no C's yet and it feels wonderful!! I've loved it so much. Most of my patients have just been great. I've gotten to see a bronchoscopy and a echocardiogram. I've given PO and SubQ and IM meds. I've been an advocate for my patients. I also got to work in with a patient in an airborne isolation room and those gowns are hot! I seriously cannot wait to start next semester, especially family health!

Nursing Concepts 1

So far nursing concepts has gone pretty well for me. I've enjoyed my clinicals and even got to remove a catheter last week. However I did not get to pass meds because my patient on Thursday was discharged and I guess if it's not the same patient on both days you can't give meds. At least not for your first time. So I'm pretty nervous about our skills test tomorrow on meds. I just think I would feel better about it if I had had the opportunity to actually give some to a real person. But hopefully I won't forget anything and will be fine. In other news, I did good on my first test for nursing concepts. I got a 90. =]. Hopefully I will do that well on the upcoming pharm test Monday.

Final thoughts on Fundamentals and a few other things.

I really enjoyed this class. The only thing I wish was done differently were when the slides were posted. I think the slides should either be posted the day before or there should be enough time to write everything down in class. If I can't have the slides printed and can't keep up then I feel like any little thoughts I write down are all disorganized and I won't remember exactly what I'm talking about. That was my only problem.

I'm pretty happy with my grade. I got a B in the class but I'm 0.43 points away from an A which kills me a little. I'm hoping it'll be rounded but don't think they round.

But I'm so excited for tomorrow!! I can't wait to start learning about injections and IVs. I actually got my flu vaccine today and wanted to ask the walgreens lady a ton of stuff about it but decided not to bug her.

YAY!!

I'm so excited to be done with my first nursing class and to have passed it!! I can't wait to get started on the next class. =]

Can't believe Fundamentals is almost over!

Wow time sure has flown by! My clinical went very well this week, much better than last week's. I really enjoyed helping our patient with everything she needed. And I'm so excited to use the med system that TMH has. I think it's so cool! Studying has been going good I guess. I feel a little behind on it but I'm sure I'll be ready come Wednesday. I did take a break to watch the FSU game with some friends last night. What a great game and I'm so excited we're ranked 16 now! Woot woot!

Stressful Clinical this week.

So this clinical wasn't the best one for me. My patient was resting most of the time so I felt like I was slacking cause I had nothing to do. I ended up trying to help the nursing techs. But when my patient was awake she wouldn't tell me what she needed and just asked me to get a nursing tech. And when it came time to do my assessment she said she wasn't feeling good and didn't want me to do it. Ms. Taylor ended up having to do the assessment while I watched which completely freaked and stressed me out. But I'll practice assessment on my roommates to be prepared for next week. Hopefully I'll have a patient who's more willing to have me help. So I've just been sort of bummed out today and something that I was hoping would cheer me up ended up not helping my mood and possibly bringing it down. I just can't wait to start the new week and get my mind off the past 2 days.