Progress with the panic
Every time I think I’m getting a handle on things, I start looking around and realize how fast I’m sinking. I don’t even want to think about all the chapters I should have already read and haven’t yet. While I seem to have the biggest shortage time-wise in my class, I don’t think I have it quite as bad as some when it comes to the reading. I can at least read something once and get the general concepts. I have a classmate who is bemoaning the state of his reading abilities. He said what may take one person an hour to read takes him 5 hours. He literally poured over a chapter for that long and it’s not conducive to one’s peace of mind when one has 17 more to go.
On the bright side, I think things have finally been arranged at work to release me from supervising responsibilities on 3 days. I’ve agreed to keep running flats on Friday and Saturday. Tuesday through Thursday I’m planning to take off the first 4 hours of my shift to study. That means I’ll be down to working 28 hours a week. This should help ease my time constraints while putting a considerable strain on my bank account. But I’ve decided not to worry about it, for somehow God will see me through it.
My nursing theory class is the least favorite. We have to write a personal philosophy paper. I’m not really sure what my nursing philosophies are at this point since I have no experience in it. I need to get that paper done sometime this week or the next weekend. That class and Assessment won’t meet Monday because of Labor Day. I’m not sure if I should just totally put those classes on the back shelf and concentrate on getting the other two up to date or if I should do just the required on all of them and then concentrate on studying for my exam in Assessment coming up next time we meet. Ideally, I should study some of my Assessment every day, but being the procrastinator I am….
I really like my professor in my Nursing Fundamentals class. She’s quite interesting. I’ve been having the most fun in my clinicals. We’ve been doing some video watching, but there aren’t really any lectures per se. Often the videos are about a procedure, then the professors demonstrate, and then it’s up to us to practice. We’ve done vital signs, handwashing, lifting/moving patients, changing linens, and restraints. Yesterday was restraints and we took turns being tied up. Then everybody would leave the room and turn out the lights. You were left in the dark to see if you could get out of the restraints. We learned more by our “patients” getting out of the restraints than we did in just tying them up.
I really like the fact that my classmates don’t change for the most part. We have a few RNs doing the gateway program from associates to bachelors degrees who are in our theory and assessment classes. Otherwise, it’s the same 30 students. Since you go through all 5 semesters together, I can understand why the nursing classes become so close to each other. We practice on each other for all the procedures. A few of these people were already familiar to me from my Anatomy, Physiology, & Microbiology classes.
Next week we will be setting up in the University Center to take blood pressures. We’re split up into 4 groups for Thursday & Friday mornings and afternoons. My group is doing it on Thursday afternoon. That should be fun, and we should be really good at blood pressures after doing it for an hour and a half.
Besides doing our normal class assignments, we are also responsible to work through a Math book on drug calculations outside of class. We also have to do some online assignments in our Assessment class, and some online modules which most medical facilities require their employees to complete before working. They concern things like patient rights, safety and disaster responses, handling infectious diseases, and the HIPPA guidelines. I’ve done 11 of my modules and still have 1 more to complete then I can check that off of my list.
I’m looking forward to seeing how much I can get done this weekend and next week. I hope I’ll feel much better about things. My panic has already subsided somewhat knowing that I have a plan of action. I think I need to get myself out of the house to study so that I don’t have any distractions.
On the bright side, I think things have finally been arranged at work to release me from supervising responsibilities on 3 days. I’ve agreed to keep running flats on Friday and Saturday. Tuesday through Thursday I’m planning to take off the first 4 hours of my shift to study. That means I’ll be down to working 28 hours a week. This should help ease my time constraints while putting a considerable strain on my bank account. But I’ve decided not to worry about it, for somehow God will see me through it.
My nursing theory class is the least favorite. We have to write a personal philosophy paper. I’m not really sure what my nursing philosophies are at this point since I have no experience in it. I need to get that paper done sometime this week or the next weekend. That class and Assessment won’t meet Monday because of Labor Day. I’m not sure if I should just totally put those classes on the back shelf and concentrate on getting the other two up to date or if I should do just the required on all of them and then concentrate on studying for my exam in Assessment coming up next time we meet. Ideally, I should study some of my Assessment every day, but being the procrastinator I am….
I really like my professor in my Nursing Fundamentals class. She’s quite interesting. I’ve been having the most fun in my clinicals. We’ve been doing some video watching, but there aren’t really any lectures per se. Often the videos are about a procedure, then the professors demonstrate, and then it’s up to us to practice. We’ve done vital signs, handwashing, lifting/moving patients, changing linens, and restraints. Yesterday was restraints and we took turns being tied up. Then everybody would leave the room and turn out the lights. You were left in the dark to see if you could get out of the restraints. We learned more by our “patients” getting out of the restraints than we did in just tying them up.
I really like the fact that my classmates don’t change for the most part. We have a few RNs doing the gateway program from associates to bachelors degrees who are in our theory and assessment classes. Otherwise, it’s the same 30 students. Since you go through all 5 semesters together, I can understand why the nursing classes become so close to each other. We practice on each other for all the procedures. A few of these people were already familiar to me from my Anatomy, Physiology, & Microbiology classes.
Next week we will be setting up in the University Center to take blood pressures. We’re split up into 4 groups for Thursday & Friday mornings and afternoons. My group is doing it on Thursday afternoon. That should be fun, and we should be really good at blood pressures after doing it for an hour and a half.
Besides doing our normal class assignments, we are also responsible to work through a Math book on drug calculations outside of class. We also have to do some online assignments in our Assessment class, and some online modules which most medical facilities require their employees to complete before working. They concern things like patient rights, safety and disaster responses, handling infectious diseases, and the HIPPA guidelines. I’ve done 11 of my modules and still have 1 more to complete then I can check that off of my list.
I’m looking forward to seeing how much I can get done this weekend and next week. I hope I’ll feel much better about things. My panic has already subsided somewhat knowing that I have a plan of action. I think I need to get myself out of the house to study so that I don’t have any distractions.
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