Today

So, my first assessment lab went really really well. I feel really comfortable with doing assessments now. Ishaq let me practice on him yesterday and it went without a hitch! I even remembered everything!
Our first test was today and I think I did really well. I’ll find out in the morning. And by really well, [...]

Blergh.

What a disappointment.

Skills

Yesterday was my first skills lab. I’m now proficient in creating nursing diagnoses. Heck yes! We got to wear our nifty lab coats and had to look professional. Well, we’re supposed to at least. There’s a repeater in our class who opted to wear a velour sweatsuit instead.  Eh, to each his own?
So, we were [...]

Snow Day

Today was a beautiful snow day spent drinking tea, watching movies, eating good ol’ American hamburgers and french fries while watching the inauguration of our 44th President, Obama, and sledding down hills.
Oh, and Isaac and I also made our first snow man. I got to spend some quality time with Isaac also. It was a [...]

Help Me to Help You

Friday we had our class elections. I ran for VP and some of my friends ran for the other positions. There was only one President and Treasurer, 2 Secretaries, a historian, and then four for the honor court.
So my position was the only one where there were multiple people running and the duties couldn’t be [...]

Cats.

So we’ve had our babies, Dexter and Mabel for 3 months or so. Since mid-November. Well, neither Isaac or I had ever had baby kittens before, so we didn’t know when boy parts emerged. But Dexter looked like a boy and Mabel looked like a girl, so we started talking about getting them fixed soon. [...]

Week Two.

Well, week two is done and gone and I’m happy and sleepy. We finished with history and the nursing process and are moving right along into actual skills material. We learned our vital signs and head to toe assessments along with documentation and reporting. Our first lab is Tuesday and I’m super excited to go [...]

Haze.

Well, yesterday I was feeling a little depressed. But a visit to my family and wonderful curry made by Isaac cheered me right up!
So, orientation is officially over and I am already busy. My friend BC and I printed out all of our assignments and excercises and whatnots for the semester…it took two reams of [...]

Day Two

We had Freshman Seminar today where we basically learned study tips and differences between mindsets needed for the nursing program. It is SO different from normal college courses. I am gonna actually have to try and read and whatnot. School has always come easy for me, but it will finally be really challenging.
Tomorrow, we start [...]

“It’s a tradition of excellence…”

Today was the first day of classes. The first half of it, I had this anxious feeling gnawing away at my chest as the anticipation grew and grew.
The day started off with introductions from around the room. All fifty of us. Then we got student handbooks, heard speeches from the security and health offices of [...]