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I'm Mindy, 21 years old, full-time nursing student, I will graduate May of 2013 in LPN and am continuing to get my BSN right after, and have a wonderful boyfriend of 6 years with great understanding of how demanding it is. I live in a small city in Georgia, cluttered with way too many people! I have a 5-year old brother and a 2-year old sister...and I'm still living at home through college...sounds quite insane, huh? It is on most days, but I wouldn't have it any other way right now! This blog will be mostly rants and raves about nursing school, but I'm sure I'll be posting about other random things in my life throughout the blog. If you have any questions, just hit the "Ask" button and get to it! :)
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To the week ahead!
This weekend was relieving for the most part…once my headache subsided, I was able to relax and truly enjoy time with my boyfriend. We’re both so busy with building our future, that we struggle trying to find that time, but we always manage to get in quality time on weekends, even if majority of the time he is listing stuff online for his store and I’m right beside him studying for tests and doing homework, we’re still in the same room together and sometimes that can really make a difference in the atmosphere. I know he’s always going to be there to support me and he knows this is such a demanding program and that nursing in general is a demanding career as a whole, and he is showing so much patience through it all so far, we’re really growing together…there is no one else I would ever imagine being able to do this with. We’ve been together for nearly 6 years (this coming November will be officially 6 years with 4 additional years of friendship as kids…he was the boy next door!) there is no one or anything in this world that could damage us, everything we’ve been through has only made us stronger and I have no doubt in my mind that he is who I am meant to spend the rest of my life with, through the good and through the bad…he’s the only one I’d ever want to share my life with. He is such a sweet soul. I’ll always be forever grateful and thankful to have such a person in my life.
On another note, brand new week on the horizon. I am sure I will feel a lot better once tomorrow is over with! I still have to do my physical assessment check-offs, seeing that I could not make it to school on Thursday to get them done. I am hoping it all goes smooth. I know it all, but it’s so a different ballgame once your instructor is breathing down your neck asking you question about the entire process…we’ll see how it goes, here is to hoping I will not have to do it a second time, and that I get it right the first. My nerves have gotten so much better with time in this class…in the beginning I think my screw-ups had to do with feeling so new to this all…it seems like everyone in my class has experience in the healthcare field…while little ole me sits in a corner without a clue! LOL…plus in the beginning of the semester, for some reason, I felt insanely intimidated by my instructor and it’s subsided a lot within the passing weeks, and I’m glad because now I can usually perform as well as what is expected of me! All of my grades have shown major improvement with me becoming more comfortable.
Thursday….clinical orientation. I am a nervous wreck about this…and I am insanely worried about wearing all white. I am notorious for getting a stain on white clothing within a couple of hours of having it on…God please, be with me! I feel after orientation is over, my nerves will be just a little more calm about everything, but remember….here I am with no experience at all, other than what I have practiced and performed on the mannequins in our classroom. I am very excited though, so all is going to work out and I shall survive! Plus, I have people I am proving a point to with my first clinical rotation…I have people in my family who think I am going to drop out of the program after this clinical rotation at a local senior living community…ONE BY ONE I’LL PROVE YOU WRONG! ;)
I really enjoy finding nursing student blogs.
taylorashleysullivan:
i like reading nursing blogs to get hints and tips.. but makes me even more nervous that i will never get through it somday :P
you’ll get through it! I always feel the same way every semester, but before I know it, I somehow made it through the mess! LOL (Source: heyitsnessa, via bebrightbeautifulandlovely)
Ugh.
Didn’t go to class today…horrible, horrible headache…actually making an appointment to get these seen about, it cannot keep interfering with life. My mom takes sumatriptan for hers, so I am hoping that it will work wonders for me as it has her, if I am prescribed it. Missing class in nursing school is a huge stress load. There is so much you can miss in that one day of lecture, that it’s not even funny. Not to mention when we miss days, we have to make an entire outline of what we missed or we have to do anything else that proves to her that we studied the information.
Day #52
- Seems like it was just yesterday that I was updating about being anxious and nervous for the first day of the LPN program to come and here I am, already 52 days in! I feel so un-oriented to time in nursing school! I guess that’s the way it’s supposed to be, right? So much to do, so much to take in and so much to learn…time just kind of gets away from you without you really realizing, until that every once in a while where you do have the time to sit down and think about the progress that’s been made. I’ve really never felt so productive with my life, as I do in nursing school. I was going through majoring in Early Childhood and wasn’t happy with it and just felt like it wasn’t going anywhere…now that I am finally where I am meant to be, and above all else where I want to be, everything is just falling into place in time, as it should.
- Ugh, the test we had today…so glad it is behind me! We had a written portion and a multiple choice portion. We had to write out all 19 steps of the physical assessment, the system being assessed, instrument used, location, how to asses, and one example of what would cause an abnormal finding, and also had to write out what the normal findings are. I did not think it was going to take that long, but 2 hours flew by before I even realized! I know the physical assessment from beginning to end and end to beginning, so I am anticipating that I did well! It would definitely help out my grade in the class and give me a little more cushion to fall back on if needed!
- First clinical rotation starts next week in a nursing home facility. I am very anxious and a little nervous, for I have not one ounce of patient care behind me. This will be my first time ever doing so. I really am looking forward to it, although I am trying to not let my nerves get the best of me on this one. I am sure after 5 weeks, I will look back and be so proud of myself for what I’ve learned and accomplished while being there. There are people who think I will drop out of the program after actually partaking in the process of patient care…they just don’t know me too well, apparently. I am very determined and ready to take all of this on. I am meant to be a nurse and that’s just what I am doing! :)
This is a late entry dealing with Valentines Day, but we threw a surprise fake 50th birthday party for our instructor. She’s in her 60’s, so it was just something random. It was hilarious. She is all for practical jokes, and while she was on lunch hour, we decided to decorate insanely on ours…the look on her face was priceless. I’ve never enjoyed being in school like I have in the nursing program. We are becoming such a tight-knit group, family, so-to-speak. I look forward to going to school and seeing these people every day of the week!
OMG
IV drip rates will possibly be the death of me…I keep telling myself it just takes practice, but holy crap…too much in one chapter at this point in my life, I guess! I’ll get through it…hopefully successfully!
Week 5…
Life, where did you disappear to? All I feel I ever do is study and when I’m not studying, I’m in lecture. Don’t get me wrong, I love nothing more right now, than to be able to call myself a nursing student, but I still need time to adjust…do we ever get that time to do so? I feel so drained and this is just the beginning. I’m not that big of a complainer, but this is just something so different for me. There I was majoring in early childhood and then I decided to switch to nursing…having all, but two pre-reqs done, a semester later I get accepted into the program. BAM, BAM, BAM. It hasn’t had time to sink in!
Testing…where do I begin…and where on earth did all of this test anxiety come from?! I haven’t made an “A” on a test yet! I have made all B’s…and what makes it so bad, is I will do such stupid things! …for example…”what is the technical name for a fever?” ….I selected AFEBRILE….really? really?! I knew it was pyrexia…duh…pyromaniac….fire…heat…ugh! I get so nervous and shaky during tests. I keep trying to slow down. I’ve gotten better, but I still need to work on it! I’ve noticed that I am, however, going from low B’s to higher B’s…maybe I’ll make it to the A’s before the semester is over! Haha…
Drug Calc…so far so good! We’re starting on IV drip rates and I did a few practices after reading…I’m excited!
Nursing school is insane, but when it all comes down to it…there is nothing else I rather be doing, no matter what it entails.
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