Cute pic of daughter from Prom last night

oh yes we recycled the dress from her father's wedding. Which was the plan to begin with when she picked it out.

See you in 12 days

Busy busy weeks ahead with two projects due, the last theory test and then finals. Tons to study. Really need to crack the books HARD! I need to be diligent with this and break my bad habit of slacking I've recently acquired. I can't blame it on clinical burn out anymore. Only 7 more class days left in the semester.

Hope everyone's finals go well... good luck!

100th post!

And clinical is in the bag! WOOT! Today I really spent the 8 hrs doing nothing but sitting around and finishing up paperwork. It took forever but I just really couldn't wait to get out of there. I really can say that I won't miss it. But it may be weird to not go there after so many months. We've been in clinical since February!

Happy hour with the girls after clinical was fun and now for the last test in theory and then finals!

Do you see it.... Do you see the light?

Well today we got the schedules for next semester. We have acute care at the hospital from Sept to Nov , two 12 hour shifts in OB and two 12 hour shifts in Peds ending with finals Dec 14th. Its so weird to see the goal so close, well goal #2. #1 was getting into Nursing School. #2 is getting my LPN and #3 is getting my RN. Everything after that is just gravy. It just seems so much closer, so much more real now. Ya know?

New word came in today on the last regular theory test that 10-15 of the 35 questions will consist of short answer questions. Nothing like ending the semester with a friggin' spoiler!

Oh well guess the next two weeks will be crazier than the entire semester has been. Lord help us with the final! We still have some stupid group project due that we are grading each other on for 4 point. Ultimately I think she'll assign the point how she see's fit. Its aways so subjective anyway... such is the nature of the Nursing School BEAST!

New week... no whine...

As if I could not whine about something?!? LOL

But seriously it's a new week and it is the last week of clinical for the semester! I am soooo happy to be outta that place soon! Last week was so slow and they had such a low census that even the instructor commented finally that we weren't just dodging things, that there really wasn't much going on skills wise and not much to do on Friday. So just in case its still slow, we get to bring our lab kits in and practice and sign off on sterile gloving, PPE and dry dressing changes and stuff on each other.

Today is my last regularly scheduled Pharmacology test. Mix of mental health meds, which we were tested on in theory, so I am hoping it won't be too hard. There were only a few add ins randomly placed like Ritilin, Adderall & Imitrex. So I hope there isn't something I missed when studying those. She does tend to pull up off the wall, where did that come from material.


There is an open lab this week to practice skills at school after classes. It's not mandatory but they are paying attention to who goes. I was thinking of going today, but I know when I get there it'll be Christine teaching what I know and not practicing what I don't know. I was already told people wanted to work with me on assessment, because unlike in clinical, our check offs consist of 26 places for respiratory sounds, the cardiac points, the cranial nerves and head to toe everything else. Which needs to be spat off in a spiel about intercostal spaces, systole and maximum points of intensity. Not to mention vesicular sounds,capillary refill,turgor,symmetry and the like.

Ok off to take the boy to school then back to get some last minute studying in before class.

Yellow ooze and white goo

Biliary drainage tube & g-tube dressing changes.

3 Clinical days left.

We have to give report at post conference from the perspective of our Pt. How on earth can you do that?!?

" I spent all day asking when I was going home, wondering where my room was, and why I am here. Where am I again?"

Wednesday What's Up...

1.) Have been having a lovely debate about the merits of bi-coastal marriages with the family on facebook. Apparently there is a new trend in this. http://www.expobusiness.com/article/living_apart_for_the_paycheck.html

2.) Husband and Dad are on their respective flights coming home as I write this.

3.) I should be working on that freaking Careplan, but I am not!

4.) I have discovered Twitter... which is stupid, but it's like a spyglass on the stars, if you care, which apparently I do. Except for Perez Hilton, which I had to unfollow, only because he is just so full of himself and a dang drama queen!

Well I think I'll get some lunch and watch soaps! Oh no I mean do my Careplan, yeah that's it I'll be doing my Careplan!