StudentNurse

Labels: L and M

• I cannot believe the last time I posted was in November
• Life has and has not exactly been that hectic
• I knew I needed to update
• But I let it go
• Anyway as you can tell from the bullets queit a bit has changed
• I don't like paragraphs
• Or am simply not good at them
• You be my judge
• One too many a time I've been accused of run-on sentences
• And even poor punctuation. Hello if I do run-ons something's definitely a miss with the punctuation right? it's a no brainer!
• So with all the papers I've done in nursing school you'd think it would grow on me or c'mmon at least rub off from my classmates/professors
• But nay. No such luck
• Woe is me when it comes to writing
• I digress
• Back to nursing school update
• So Sept/Oct 2007 I did my psych rotation which was great! Scary at first but turned out just fine
• The San Diego fires were during my psych rotation and so it ended abruptly. We didn't even get to do the presentation but who cared then y'know?provided everyone was safe
• Thank God the fires stopped though. It was very scary and the air was so polluted we were literally breathing ashen-air
• I was off school in Nov '07. I had a great 23rd birthday.
• I went away for a mini-vacay to Atlanta, GA for thanksgiving with friends
• Somehow I ended up booking the wrong return destination and ended up in Orange County.
• I was stuck in OC for a couple of hours until I lucked out with some 3 random ladies who were going to a conference in SD and somehow had also ended up in OC. I wasn't the only one. I'm sane! I'm sane!
• We cabbed it to SD and split the cab fare four ways to about $53 each. Not bad at all!
• I got home dumped my suitcases. Changed in a flash and left for class
• I had Community Health Nursing orientation that night
• Ugh. Back to school.
• Three months of CHN were pure frustration, stress and insanity
• What was supossedly an online class turned out to be a nightmare of 7 days of schoolwork and community projects
• I just happened to fracture my right ankle within the first week of CHN
• On orientation night I had signed up for a community project
• After the fracture I had to call the instructor and cancel
• So she and I got off on the wrong foot. She wanted me to drop the class instead of rescheduling me for a different community project
• WHAT?!
• I was pissed. There was no way I could drop the class. I even had a doc's note. I was on crutches for crying out loud
• I ended up staying in the class but she re-scheduled my community project and sent me to a city 40 miles away at the end of the month. Great! Talk about trying to ruin my Christmas mood
• The 3 months of CHN were full of up and downs and random assignments that seemed to pop up on me from nowhere
• Each time I thought I was catching up I'd realize I was only eeking by
• The assignments went from 96 hrs of community projects. class chat lives, group charts, group discussions, class discussions, papers, observations. ACK!
• I got through it. The end could not come soon enough, December '07 through February '08 and I didn't want to ever hear the word CHN in my life again
• Despite the stress CHN was fun and so involving. Observations at the different clinics were exciting and boring. Go figure.
• I got 2 A's and 1 B in the three CHN classes
• Thank God
• I started my Leadership and Management Nursing class in March
• The clinical rotations have been at an agency I've not been to before. Six Wednesday rotations in 2 mos and 8 Monday lecture nights
• Next week is the last week of L and M. It's been exciting learning the different changes that have occured in healthcare organizations, different kinds of leaders, managements and all that good stuff
• We've had 3 quizzes in this class, a final and a group presentation.
• One quiz, the final and the group presentation to go
• Yay!
• I can't wait to have this behind me
• God is awesome
• I'll try and update often from now on
• These are the chronicles of life away from home and nursing school life
• I love my family, the s.o., bff, friends, and even random strangers for all the support and help
• I wouldn't have got this far without all of you
• Every thought, every prayer, every text, every call, every card, every letter, every voicemail for the many times I've not been able to come to the phone due to lectures, clinicals, study groups, assignments, catching a few of hours of sleep after pulling all nighters studying and reviewing. Each last one counted even when I was too overwhelmed to say/show it
• You all made me smile and laugh when I thought all things happiness were gone away from my life forever
• Thank you

Labels: CHN, First Update in almost 5 mos, Leadership and Management Nursing, My life as a nursing student, Psych Summary