My break

My break from school is going by way too quickly! I had last week off, and spent it in Kiawah Island, SC with my cousin. Just us girls, no kids! It was very relaxing, but went by way too fast!

This week, I have off as well. Don't really have anything planned except for a lunch on Thursday with a friend from school and an old middle school friend. I recently found out that this person from my nursing classes is best friends with someone I used to hang out with in middle school. So, we thought it would be pretty cool for us all to get together.

Next week, school starts up again and I'll have a full schedule. I will have something school related M-F, no days off. :( At least I won't have to get up crazy early on Saturdays this quarter, so that's a plus. I am hoping for a really good clinical assignment this quarter with a nice instructor, fun group of classmates, and a good facility.

Finals and a birth

Well, I am 2 finals down, and have 2 to go. I know I passed the first one, still not sure what I got on the second, but I'm pretty certain I passed it. The one today I'm faily comfortable with. Just need to look over a couple of things about congenital heart disease. Then I really need to cram for my last final on Thursday for IV Therapy!! That's the one I'm worried about. :(

Satuday was a good day at clinicals. I woke up late, and barely made it in by 7:00, but I still got to go in on a birth! Two of the other people in my group did not show up, so it was just me and one other girl. Obviously she was there first, since I was late (she would have been there first anyway since she lives less than 10 minutes from the hospital and always got there first...) so the laboring patient was hers. Fortunatley, I got to go in with the nurse that was to triage the baby right after birth, so I got to see the whole thing. Very exciting!

One more!

Well, just one more OB clinical tomorrow. There haven't been any babies born on Saturday mornings there since my clinicals started. :( Even if there were, we are chosen to be in on a birth according to the order we arrive at the hospital. So, if there is one birth, the first person to arrive that day would get to be in on it. Unfortunately, I live the furthest away from the hospital I am at and am always the last to arrive, even getting there at 6:15 for a 7:00 clinical. Sigh. We are also getting our clinical reviews tomorrow. Hopefully that will be painless.

I cannot WAIT to be done with this quarter! Lots of studying to do this weekend and throughout the coming week. But at least then I will be off for 2 weeks, yay!

Well, guess I'm gonna watch a little tv as I go to sleep. Btw, I still hate getting up at 5:00 am!

Stress-out time!

Next week is finals week! I will have one final each day, Monday through Thursday. At least they're spread out a little, so I don't have to go in Monday prepared for all of them. I am going to be stressing out for the next week until these are over!!

Not only do I have to study for all these finals, but I have to write a 5 page research paper for my English class and do peer reviews for 2 other people's papers and submit feedback on their papers to my teacher. The paper is due to my peer group by tomorrow, and then my final paper as well as the feedback on the other papers is due Sunday. AAAAHHHHHH!!!

Two more weeks...

I just have 2 more weeks of school for this quarter! This Tuesday in nutrition, we are presenting our 2nd projects. Each of us was to choose a dish that relates to our culture, make it (along with the recipe and nutritional value) and bring it in to class. So, all we're doing in there is eating and reviewing for the final. I think I can handle that. :)

Just one more week of Saturday cinicals, woo! I hate getting up at 5:00 am!! Though, next quarter, I'll have clinicals 2 days each week rather than just one. That's gonna suck! Hopefully I'll be somewhere that's not 45 minutes away from where I live. That would be a nice change. Not gonna count on it though.

Now, I'm getting ready head out with my kiddos for one last trip to the pool for this summer, then home to work on some assignments for school.