A little delayed or maybe just busy.

I will admit my blog has been severely neglected due to the new fade of facebook but I figured why not attempt to maintain some link between the two and update my blog and be on facebook.

So here I am back again, at last count the semester was nearing a finish. I can now say that I have 3 wonderful evenings of clinical left and exactly 12 days of school left until this semester is over. It's a little scary because then it means I am that much closer to being done school for awhile until I decide whether or not to be brave and go back to school yet again. It's really a toss up at the moment, I think I am alright with where I am at currently (education wise).

So we have 3 clinical days left and they are 8 hour evening shifts. We are basically being tossed to the wind in the last week. We currently have two patients per student, that is quite a lot of work but acute care is so different from long term care. But next week on our evenings we are being given 8 patients to care for between 2 students. I am quite terrified of being put in this situation but I am confident that I might be able to handle the caseload. We'll see, at least I don't have to get up at 5:30a.m. anymore this semester.

Anyways other than that, school is school. We get to go into the sphere lab tomorrow with the creepy robot that totally freaks me out. It is a robot but talks, breathes, has a pulse, heart rate, blood pressure etc. It is really ugly looking too, it doesn't look remotely human but they use it to train us to think critically. We'll see how it goes, it shouldn't be all that bad except for it's just creepy. I was so nervous the first time I went into the sphere lab by myself, this time it shouldn't be too bad because there are 4 people per care team, so maybe just maybe I will be alright.

Well off to study and play with robots tomorrow...what nursing school puts you through.

No place for November

I can hardly believe it is November already which means I have 34 more days of school to go this semester...well that's including the weekends so it would actually be 25 more days. I was talking to a friend who goes to the school I go to that said this semester was condensed this year, for what reason we are still unsure. But as of December 7th my fall semester at school is done which is kind of frightening because I have 4 exams in two days. But apparently the other thing I learned is that when you do in class exams by some rule they are unable to give us cumulative exams for the whole semester, so that makes me a little happier. And I only have 12 days of clinical left as well.
Which brings me to my next point. At the college/university here, there has been an outbreak of the mumps! apparently five cases have surfaced in a short period of time causing panic. So on Monday before we go to clinical we must get our mumps vaccinations or we cannot attend clinical. We were only informed of this today, why they wait until the weekend to tell us is another story, the school and instructors confuse me greatly! But such is life right?

So Monday morning I will march and get my mumps vaccination so that I do not miss a day of clinical. Otherwise you have to write a 5-7 page paper for every missed clinical day....They are punishing us. But my favorite quote is that "Nursing is my passion, but nursing school is cruel and unusual punishment."

We went to Chapters and bought a few books, that's always fun. Looked at the starbucks mugs but did not buy any...I have to curb the collection, I have quite a few odd starbucks mugs now. I always like to buy them when they are on sale for like $2.99 after months of being unable to sell them they mark them down quite low, just watch the sales. Then we wandered the mall for a bit. Then headed over to Ashley's house for a bit to try on some shoes...I hate trying on shoes when people are watching me, so having three people watch me try them on was a bit intimidating. But the shoes are cute!

~Anyways off to enjoy the rest of my weekend...have a good weekend~

It's been awhile!

I didn't realize that I hadn't updated my blog in awhile. So I apologize for being so behind. Well I wish there was something to update but really nothing has been going on that is worth writing about.
We are quite busy these days and it is about to get busier. Clinical starts on Monday.....the dreaded clinical...I am not so impressed with where I am placed this term only because I am an employee at the unit I am doing my clinical placement on. We are in acute care at the hospital and I am on the orthopedic surgical floor, so it should be a very challenging and informative placement. I look forward to it.....terrified at the same time.
Another exciting thing is that we get to do a week long psychiatry placement as well. We don't get to be in the psychiatry unit at the hospital though, instead we are at a long term care facility (it is a hospital) but it is mostly geriatric psychiatry. I wish we could do our rotation in the hospital but with the amount of nursing students they are churning through both the PN and RN programs, we do not get placements there.
Today as well I went with my friend to get our Student badges, the health region requires that we as students wear the badges that they give us and not the ones that we could just get at the school. I was so worried about my picture that I made the poor guy in the photo ID place take my picture more than once to ensure that the picture was good...anyone who has seen my school student ID might know why I was so insistant on the picture looking good.
But anyways with papers to write, I should close for now.
So all I have to say is let the games begin and hopefully I do not get too stressed out.

Amusing...I think.

I have lately thought Andy Warhol's work is quite interesting. This one above is one of his art pieces. He uses bright colors and catchy little saying. Many celebrities have had their portraits made into Andy Warhol art pieces. They are different, which is why they are interesting.

Anyways nothing new is going on these days, just busy with school and I cannot believe it is already October. One month into the school year and already we are preparing for midterms. That is what happens when you are in a program with a compacted semester. The midterms come quickly and they shouldn't be that bad. Well since I am not really saying anything important, I am going to save my blog for another day when I have something conductive or intelligent to say.

Self-Explanatory.

I saw this sign and it made me chuckle....

though it should say "Parking for Student Nurses Only!"

It's monday, but I feel like the week should be over already.

I am searching for motivation right now, so if anyone sees motivation,

could they send it my way?

Slacking in the blog department!

So I realized I hadn't blogged in awhile but this is probably due to school starting. Even my time on facebook has substantially decreased as well.
Well to update you on the happenings around here there is quite a bit going on.

Point 1- All the students at the college are flustered in their first few weeks of school, trying to figure everything out and get organized. Usually this is not a hard task but our schools web system is down. So I should right now be pouring over readings or writing papers but since the web system is down, we have no way of accessing our information for our courses that we need. It has been down since Sunday and is quite an inconvienence for some of us whose content for courses is on there. I should have printed out what I needed on Saturday when I could retrieve it all, but I figured in a few days it'll all still be there....little did I know the whole system would crash.

Point 2- We still haven't moved, the appliances for the house still have not arrived (though I have the fridge), but the rest of the appliances are a no show. They said by this thursday some of them should be here and well that's tomorrow, the rest are coming the week after....we'll see, I may be too pessimistic to believe them.

Point 3- Wal-mart's Grocery section opens tomorrow! Yay! Actually I am being sarcastic and am not as excited as the two women I overheard while walking through the store today. They were on their cellphones talking to their friends telling them the exciting news that Wal-mart's Grocery department will be open for business tomorrow! I mean I was shocked that people actually do that...(I know I didn't call anyone and tell them that)

Point 4-We are getting some exciting music groups to the city. The blue man group is touring through Canada and gracing us with their presence and as well Weird Al Yankovic! I don't find this at all exciting because honesty these are the type of performers that probably couldn't get booked in the bigger venue facilities in the major cities, so they are gracing us with their presence. Weird Al does a version of Green Day's "American Idiot", his is however calling it "Canadian Idiot"....how does someone make money off of these songs? Seriously! but I will probably buy his album because I sang along to his songs "Amish Paradise" and "Phony Calls"....do you remember those ones?

Point 5- It is starting to get cold out. We are suppose to get frost tonight. It's suppose to go down to minus two but I always remember that it never snows here until Halloween, so we are safe at least for a few weeks.

Today was the last day of summer

So today was officially the last day of my summer. Tomorrow is the start of year 2 as a nursing student. I am excited about returning, but at the same time it is terrifying because it is a demanding course load. Minus the psychology class that I took over summer thank goodness!! I didn't enjoy my psychology class all that much due to the fact that it was well....boring and the material was dry. So I do not need that in an already busy semester.

But I do however get to take exciting classes such as mental health and community care...should be interesting. I will let you know in the future if I am still as enthusiastic tomorrow as I am today about going back....we'll see.

But I spent my last few days of summer really not doing much. I watched quite possibly the worst movies ever....right Ashley? We started with The prince and me 2.....I do not recommend this movie....it was terrible acting. Then we watched Are we done yet?....a sequel to the movie- Are we there yet?....it wasn't too bad, it was funny but I will never watch this movie again. Then I watched Georgia Rule(s)? I think it's called. It's quite possibly the worst movie I have ever watched....I never have liked Lindsay Lohan's acting except for the parent trap because that is quite possibly my most favorite movie of all time. So I spent the weekend watching movies and staying up late....a great way to start the new semester.

Anyways that is all for now :)