These are fun, so I figured I would do a new one that I took from someones facebook notes. Here we go:
Directions:1. Put your iPod, iTunes, Windows Media Player, etc. on shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS.
IF SOMEONE SAYS "IS THIS OKAY" YOU WOULD SAY?You loved me when- BDA
HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOURSELF?Somebody told me- The Killers
WHAT DO YOU LOOK FOR IN A GUY/GIRL? Santa Monica- Theory of a deadman
HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY? Feel it- Black eyed peas
WHAT IS YOUR LIFE PURPOSE?Dance floor anthem- Good Charlotte
WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO? Ghosts- Nick Lachey
WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU? Shades of blue- Ashley angel parker
WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU? If I were- Hoobastank
WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN? Storm- Lifehouse
WHAT IS 2 + 2?We believe- Red hot chili peppers
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BESTIE?21st century- Red hot chili peppers
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON YOU LIKE? The adventure- Angels and Airwaves
WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY? Will the future blame us- Our Lady Peace
WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO WHEN YOU GROW UP?Nobody’s home- Avril Lavigne
WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE? Sexy back- Justin Timberlake & timberland
WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING? Victims of love- Good Charlotte
WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST? Stay- Rex Goudie
WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST FEAR? Them vs. You vs. Me- Finger Eleven
WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET? Change your mind- The Killers
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS? Comatose- Skillet
WHAT WILL YOU POST THIS AS? Get out alive- Three days Grace
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
2008..the last 15 days
Welcome to 2008...though I probably should have said that sooner...maybe...I mean after all January is half over. What is new you might be asking, well I have started back at school. Already I can tell that my classes this term will be difficult, mostly because there's the history of nursing, the ethics of nursing etc....mostly boring stuff. But we do have a maternity/pediatrics class that manage to keep my attention...most of the time.
I have been placed for clinical, though I am not thrilled about being back in long-term again, I worked so hard to get out of long-term care, it's just a really depressing atmosphere. They are short for placements because there are over 400 nursing students here. We compete for spots with the RN program and they get priority for clinical placements for whatever reason. So some of us have been shuffled back to long term care where our skills will go un-used. We also get to do a week in the SPHERE lab...with the creepy dummy I had talked about in an earlier post. It's a mortifying experience and you get nervous because people watch you...lot's of people.
But anyways since the long-term care is in a hospital like setting, hopefully, maybe something exciting will happen. I want to use my skills I am learning and unfortunately in long-term care no one has IV medications or needs sutures or staples removed or has big gashing wounds in their bodies which require dressing changes. Hence my love for the hospital and all the goryness that comes along with it. I get to do a rotation on pediatrics as well, which I wish I would have gotten my rotation on maternity because there is only one PN job on pediatrics and a grad nurse from last year just took the position, so I don't foresee it opening anytime soon.
I am really excited because they have opened a "float" position between labor and delivery and maternity. It is filled right now, but the prospects of them opening more positions for the PN's is in the future. I had decided one place I would like to work is maternity, which is why I am disappointed not getting placed there.
If I do decide to go onto get my Bachelors of Nursing I think I would want to work somewhere fast paced and intense, being a PN doesn't give you much in the fast pace category. I don't know, maybe I might work in a doctors office for now, It's something normal. I like the idea of regular hours.
I have been placed for clinical, though I am not thrilled about being back in long-term again, I worked so hard to get out of long-term care, it's just a really depressing atmosphere. They are short for placements because there are over 400 nursing students here. We compete for spots with the RN program and they get priority for clinical placements for whatever reason. So some of us have been shuffled back to long term care where our skills will go un-used. We also get to do a week in the SPHERE lab...with the creepy dummy I had talked about in an earlier post. It's a mortifying experience and you get nervous because people watch you...lot's of people.
But anyways since the long-term care is in a hospital like setting, hopefully, maybe something exciting will happen. I want to use my skills I am learning and unfortunately in long-term care no one has IV medications or needs sutures or staples removed or has big gashing wounds in their bodies which require dressing changes. Hence my love for the hospital and all the goryness that comes along with it. I get to do a rotation on pediatrics as well, which I wish I would have gotten my rotation on maternity because there is only one PN job on pediatrics and a grad nurse from last year just took the position, so I don't foresee it opening anytime soon.
I am really excited because they have opened a "float" position between labor and delivery and maternity. It is filled right now, but the prospects of them opening more positions for the PN's is in the future. I had decided one place I would like to work is maternity, which is why I am disappointed not getting placed there.
If I do decide to go onto get my Bachelors of Nursing I think I would want to work somewhere fast paced and intense, being a PN doesn't give you much in the fast pace category. I don't know, maybe I might work in a doctors office for now, It's something normal. I like the idea of regular hours.
Sunday, December 23, 2007
Bloggerific
So I was told that I don't update my blog, so I figured I better update it so that people continue to read it...I don't actually know if anyone does read my blog, but if you do keep checking back I will update it...it just may take me awhile.
Well christmas is just two more sleeps away. I finished my christmas shopping today which was a huge relief because I only really had one complicated person to shop for and in all honesty I never had ever had problems shopping for this person before. But now that is out of the way I feel much relief and can continue the quest to wrap the presents...yes it is almost christmas eve and I have not wrapped my presents. They will get wrapped tomorrow, I plan to wrap all night if I have too.
Today I had a lot of fun, Ashley came over and made a gingerbread train with the kids and then we went out to look at the christmas lights with my family...which in turn caused the kiddo's to basically fall asleep. So while my parents went out with Nathan to eat, we stayed at their house and made a gingerbread tree and then were going to start the second gingerbread tree but it did not come with any candy even though the pictures on the box show otherwise. So tomorrow we will accomplish the second gingerbread tree. It was a treat for her since she had never made a gingerbread "anything" in her life before. I will make ashley sick of gingerbread before christmas is done...haha
It was really fun actually, our tree was crooked and looked like it was about to fall over, so hopefully by tomorrow morning it will still be standing.
So other than that, there is not to much to report. We are still moving all our stuff over to the house, I am in somewhat disbelief over how much stuff we have. Kids are not easy to pack up and move. We have somehow accumulated a lot of stuff over the last three years and seriously I haven't even started moving the majority of their toys yet.
Anyways until I post again, here's a thought that Tay told me today. Just because the outside of a house isn't decorated, doesn't mean the inside isn't. Basically what he was getting at was don't judge the outside because what is inside might suprise you. Smart little guy, he amazes me.
Well christmas is just two more sleeps away. I finished my christmas shopping today which was a huge relief because I only really had one complicated person to shop for and in all honesty I never had ever had problems shopping for this person before. But now that is out of the way I feel much relief and can continue the quest to wrap the presents...yes it is almost christmas eve and I have not wrapped my presents. They will get wrapped tomorrow, I plan to wrap all night if I have too.
Today I had a lot of fun, Ashley came over and made a gingerbread train with the kids and then we went out to look at the christmas lights with my family...which in turn caused the kiddo's to basically fall asleep. So while my parents went out with Nathan to eat, we stayed at their house and made a gingerbread tree and then were going to start the second gingerbread tree but it did not come with any candy even though the pictures on the box show otherwise. So tomorrow we will accomplish the second gingerbread tree. It was a treat for her since she had never made a gingerbread "anything" in her life before. I will make ashley sick of gingerbread before christmas is done...haha
It was really fun actually, our tree was crooked and looked like it was about to fall over, so hopefully by tomorrow morning it will still be standing.
So other than that, there is not to much to report. We are still moving all our stuff over to the house, I am in somewhat disbelief over how much stuff we have. Kids are not easy to pack up and move. We have somehow accumulated a lot of stuff over the last three years and seriously I haven't even started moving the majority of their toys yet.
Anyways until I post again, here's a thought that Tay told me today. Just because the outside of a house isn't decorated, doesn't mean the inside isn't. Basically what he was getting at was don't judge the outside because what is inside might suprise you. Smart little guy, he amazes me.
Friday, December 7, 2007
Schools out for the winter.
So exams are done, textbooks will be shut and put away to be forgotten about for at least one month. I am finally done my exams for the semester and what a huge relief that is. I can finally have time to just sit back, relax and enjoy my life for a change.
School can be stressful, but finals are even more stressful. We just completed four finals (some had five finals) in two days. Studying for them was easy and good at the same time. It is so good to be done.
Plus now it gives me a bit of time to the things that I really would like to do for a change.
Anyways that is about all I have to say today, the snow is melting so it may be a nice weekend here. We'll see, I wish the snow would stick together so we could build a snowman but this snow won't stick.
Sunday, November 25, 2007
A few days later...
So I won't write about my sphere lab experience because we did not get to go into it this last week. We were scheduled wrong, so our date with the creepy robot dude is on hold until next Thursday....can hardly wait...
We spent the lab catheterizing, changing dressings and shortening pen rose drains all in preparation for the finals. The finals can quite possibly be the worst, most nerve wracking life experiences in your time during nursing school.
Especially the LAB FINALS-->You pick out of a hat what you are going to do then you are put into a little room behind the curtain, with an instructor just staring at what you are doing, marking you. They don't speak, they don't maintain eye contact, they make the occassional noise to clear their throat or breathe in deeply, but they write....and they write....and they write...but you don't know what they are writing down on that paper.
So then every sense in your mind just starts to wander, you can't remember what you are doing, your pulse and heart rate increase through the roof, your blood pressure begins to boil and the room starts to spin and you start to sweat and confusion sets in....then you think your done but your not actually sure of what happened over the last half hour during your lab exam. You just walk out of the room, hoping you didn't forget the important points and that you did your job well. And asking if you passed or failed is out of the question because they won't tell you that either. You just wait for your marks to posted and what a horrible wait that can be.
So that is where my focus is at, the last 3 clinical evening shifts, and the last two days of school this week and then next week my two final days. Four exams in two days- should be fun. But then in the end we have a month off at christmas and what a wonderful time it will be. Just rest and relaxation until January when a whole new set of classes and schedules begin.
Anyways off to research my four patients for tomorrow....hopefully I won't drown and be buried with the work that is at hand. Organization is something I still need to master.
We spent the lab catheterizing, changing dressings and shortening pen rose drains all in preparation for the finals. The finals can quite possibly be the worst, most nerve wracking life experiences in your time during nursing school.
Especially the LAB FINALS-->You pick out of a hat what you are going to do then you are put into a little room behind the curtain, with an instructor just staring at what you are doing, marking you. They don't speak, they don't maintain eye contact, they make the occassional noise to clear their throat or breathe in deeply, but they write....and they write....and they write...but you don't know what they are writing down on that paper.
So then every sense in your mind just starts to wander, you can't remember what you are doing, your pulse and heart rate increase through the roof, your blood pressure begins to boil and the room starts to spin and you start to sweat and confusion sets in....then you think your done but your not actually sure of what happened over the last half hour during your lab exam. You just walk out of the room, hoping you didn't forget the important points and that you did your job well. And asking if you passed or failed is out of the question because they won't tell you that either. You just wait for your marks to posted and what a horrible wait that can be.
So that is where my focus is at, the last 3 clinical evening shifts, and the last two days of school this week and then next week my two final days. Four exams in two days- should be fun. But then in the end we have a month off at christmas and what a wonderful time it will be. Just rest and relaxation until January when a whole new set of classes and schedules begin.
Anyways off to research my four patients for tomorrow....hopefully I won't drown and be buried with the work that is at hand. Organization is something I still need to master.
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
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.
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.
Saturday, November 3, 2007
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~
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~
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