StudentNurse
Monday, May 28, 2007
Peds Update
Peds is going...
I've been having good times at the peds rotations at the hospital. Encountering different kinds of children. They're something else. Utterly menacing but what to do? At this rate the bf and I will not be making babies anytime soon.
I did my first paper. The Denver Developmental.I did it last minute, the reference articles were hard to get, most were backdated to the 90's. It's worth 5pts. I'm waiting to see what I get. My next paper is suppossed to be on a terminally ill child it's due week 5. My teaching ppt presentation is on week 7 and it's on SIADH. My 2nd quiz is this week, which is week 4. I need to review tomorrow. I need to to do the 2nd paper and research my presentation.
I cannot believe this week is halfway Peds already, yaay!
I've the most amazing clinical rotations instructor. She's amazing. The careplans are major. Each Thur and Fri we gotta turn in a care map, care plan, cardex, physical assessments forms, med sheet, charting.
I'm liking it a bit better each week. I'm all graetful to God for everything.
I've been having good times at the peds rotations at the hospital. Encountering different kinds of children. They're something else. Utterly menacing but what to do? At this rate the bf and I will not be making babies anytime soon.
I did my first paper. The Denver Developmental.I did it last minute, the reference articles were hard to get, most were backdated to the 90's. It's worth 5pts. I'm waiting to see what I get. My next paper is suppossed to be on a terminally ill child it's due week 5. My teaching ppt presentation is on week 7 and it's on SIADH. My 2nd quiz is this week, which is week 4. I need to review tomorrow. I need to to do the 2nd paper and research my presentation.
I cannot believe this week is halfway Peds already, yaay!
I've the most amazing clinical rotations instructor. She's amazing. The careplans are major. Each Thur and Fri we gotta turn in a care map, care plan, cardex, physical assessments forms, med sheet, charting.
I'm liking it a bit better each week. I'm all graetful to God for everything.
Labels: Pedeatrics
posted by Student Nurse at 3:12 PM
Friday, May 11, 2007
Med/Pharmacology Exam in Pedeatrics
It's been a long week that really flew by. Yup I realise that sentence is simply senseless, there are no long weeks that fly by. Hmmm
The pedeatrics class started this Wednesday. Lecture time is 1230-0530pm not the best time for my concentration span but my prof's gotta play golf and tennis in the mornings seriously that's the reason she gave for moving lecture time from 0900 to 1230 but we're a morning cohort I almost voiced but that wouldn't change a thing.
On wednesday was orientation into peds and on the same day we found out just like in Fundamentals of nursing in peds we were also required to do a med/pharm exam and score no less than a 90% to proceed with the class. Guess when the exam was going to be? Friday, 0800. Now the prof doesn't teach pharm so as the students we're suppossed to do the whole of "Dosage Calculations (aka bluebook)" book and the ATI book for the theory part of the exam. In a day we're expected to know all that and score nothing below a 90%.
Wednesday night I get home and am literally sitting on my hands to keep from pulling my hair. It's been almost 8mos since I took my Fundamentals class and I can't trace my bluebook. Ugh. I'm trying really hard to not just break down and weep. My friend is stopping by at midnight to drop the Peds book. She comes and I tell her I can't find my bluebook and kindly enough her lead foot gases to her house and she's back in less that half hour with not only the bluebook but some extra sample question paper and a dosage calculations cd, what manner of kindness? I get into bed at 1330 after popping to 2 reg. strength tylenols b/c my head is pounding.
Thursday I wake up go to Peds clinicals orientation all day, 0830-0430 by the time I get off am poop'd. Get home at 0530 lay on my bed b/c my body is all hurting. I know I need to study for the pharm exam but I just can NOT get myself to do it. I lay there for like 2hrs making small talk with the bf. Finally, I have some dinner, say my prayers and start studying by 11pm am crawling into bed. I'm trusting God to bring me through this. Friday I wake, go to school and do the med exam and get a 98%. Thank you God. May all glory, honor and praise be to only God. Thanks to my moms, R, R, and D and the bf and all my other friends who give me any kind of support and help. It wouldn't be the same without each one of you. Y'all count ok? Never forget that if you forget everything else
Mucho amor,
student nurse
The pedeatrics class started this Wednesday. Lecture time is 1230-0530pm not the best time for my concentration span but my prof's gotta play golf and tennis in the mornings seriously that's the reason she gave for moving lecture time from 0900 to 1230 but we're a morning cohort I almost voiced but that wouldn't change a thing.
On wednesday was orientation into peds and on the same day we found out just like in Fundamentals of nursing in peds we were also required to do a med/pharm exam and score no less than a 90% to proceed with the class. Guess when the exam was going to be? Friday, 0800. Now the prof doesn't teach pharm so as the students we're suppossed to do the whole of "Dosage Calculations (aka bluebook)" book and the ATI book for the theory part of the exam. In a day we're expected to know all that and score nothing below a 90%.
Wednesday night I get home and am literally sitting on my hands to keep from pulling my hair. It's been almost 8mos since I took my Fundamentals class and I can't trace my bluebook. Ugh. I'm trying really hard to not just break down and weep. My friend is stopping by at midnight to drop the Peds book. She comes and I tell her I can't find my bluebook and kindly enough her lead foot gases to her house and she's back in less that half hour with not only the bluebook but some extra sample question paper and a dosage calculations cd, what manner of kindness? I get into bed at 1330 after popping to 2 reg. strength tylenols b/c my head is pounding.
Thursday I wake up go to Peds clinicals orientation all day, 0830-0430 by the time I get off am poop'd. Get home at 0530 lay on my bed b/c my body is all hurting. I know I need to study for the pharm exam but I just can NOT get myself to do it. I lay there for like 2hrs making small talk with the bf. Finally, I have some dinner, say my prayers and start studying by 11pm am crawling into bed. I'm trusting God to bring me through this. Friday I wake, go to school and do the med exam and get a 98%. Thank you God. May all glory, honor and praise be to only God. Thanks to my moms, R, R, and D and the bf and all my other friends who give me any kind of support and help. It wouldn't be the same without each one of you. Y'all count ok? Never forget that if you forget everything else
Mucho amor,
student nurse
Labels: Pedeatrics
posted by Student Nurse at 7:39 PM
Monday, May 07, 2007
Adios OBGYN ( You'll be missed!!!)
I had my OBGYN final on saturday afternoon. I aced it, Yaay! All glory, honor, praise and worship to only, GOD.I wouldn't have done it without God, He meets ALL my needs, my heart and soul discern to live for Him all days of my life. Truly, better is one day in His sight than thousands elsewhere, I stand in awe of Him and let my words be few I'm in love with Him.
The week before the final was a crashing one. I was the crashee and the crash cart was MIA. On Monday (04/30) which was the last day of class(OB lecture). I found out that in my 2nd journal paper I got a 0/5 and even after re-writing my 1st journal paper my score still remained as 1/5. I had lost 9pts suddenly bringing my class % down, very down. I went to the library after class and no I just couldn't study. I had a few errands to run, a quick stop at the mall and I was on my way home. I was a sad girl. I talked to the BF and as always he made me feel like 'a million bucks'. I put in an early night after sending an email to the prof to inquire if I really had the right scores on both papers. I slept and woke up the next morning after a looong night. First thing I did was check my e-mail and there it was. An e-mail from the prof confirming my worst nightmare and additionally stating there was a possibility I wasn't going to make it in this class. I balled my eyes out. I had been perfoming very well on my exams in the whole of this class but b/c of those 2 papers my grade was down and I was about to fail the class? No I was NOT going to let it happen. I was very frustrated b/c I've not had problems before with my papers all my years in univeristy and thus far into nursing school. Apparently, I plagirise. It's the worst reason to fail a paper so next time I'm going to make an appointment with the writing center.
OBGYN has been my best class yet in nursing schooL. I studied alot because I needed to barely miss anything to excel in the class and excel I did.
During the trance of course I called my most outstanding mom and we talked and the BF was super helpful encouraging me every step of the way. I aced it out of 75 ques I got 6 wrong. I thank God from the deepest of my heart for my moms, R, R and D and the BF and my BFF too for all the support, encouragement, love, prayers and care you show me I wouldn't do this without you beloveds!
On a different note the OBGYN clinical rotations ended on a good note too. I was in antepartum the last day and my nurses were super cool and I learnt tons especially about curettage! The last day we went to a birth center. It's the most cozy place for a low-risk woman to give birth. If I end up having a baby I'd love to do it in a birth center, it's so amazing! Hmmm...BF exactly when are we making those babies again???????????pass it by me again wouldya? LOL j/k...
Pediatrics starts Wednesday. My clinical days are Thursday and Friday. Like, seriously where else would I rather be on a friday right? oh well what to do? I can't wait for this class to end, God-willing I'll be going on a trip so that's all I need to get me through it, yaay!
The week before the final was a crashing one. I was the crashee and the crash cart was MIA. On Monday (04/30) which was the last day of class(OB lecture). I found out that in my 2nd journal paper I got a 0/5 and even after re-writing my 1st journal paper my score still remained as 1/5. I had lost 9pts suddenly bringing my class % down, very down. I went to the library after class and no I just couldn't study. I had a few errands to run, a quick stop at the mall and I was on my way home. I was a sad girl. I talked to the BF and as always he made me feel like 'a million bucks'. I put in an early night after sending an email to the prof to inquire if I really had the right scores on both papers. I slept and woke up the next morning after a looong night. First thing I did was check my e-mail and there it was. An e-mail from the prof confirming my worst nightmare and additionally stating there was a possibility I wasn't going to make it in this class. I balled my eyes out. I had been perfoming very well on my exams in the whole of this class but b/c of those 2 papers my grade was down and I was about to fail the class? No I was NOT going to let it happen. I was very frustrated b/c I've not had problems before with my papers all my years in univeristy and thus far into nursing school. Apparently, I plagirise. It's the worst reason to fail a paper so next time I'm going to make an appointment with the writing center.
OBGYN has been my best class yet in nursing schooL. I studied alot because I needed to barely miss anything to excel in the class and excel I did.
During the trance of course I called my most outstanding mom and we talked and the BF was super helpful encouraging me every step of the way. I aced it out of 75 ques I got 6 wrong. I thank God from the deepest of my heart for my moms, R, R and D and the BF and my BFF too for all the support, encouragement, love, prayers and care you show me I wouldn't do this without you beloveds!
On a different note the OBGYN clinical rotations ended on a good note too. I was in antepartum the last day and my nurses were super cool and I learnt tons especially about curettage! The last day we went to a birth center. It's the most cozy place for a low-risk woman to give birth. If I end up having a baby I'd love to do it in a birth center, it's so amazing! Hmmm...BF exactly when are we making those babies again???????????pass it by me again wouldya? LOL j/k...
Pediatrics starts Wednesday. My clinical days are Thursday and Friday. Like, seriously where else would I rather be on a friday right? oh well what to do? I can't wait for this class to end, God-willing I'll be going on a trip so that's all I need to get me through it, yaay!
Labels: OBGYN
posted by Student Nurse at 3:35 PM
