Summertime

I'm starting to run out of homework to do as the semester is FINALLY coming to a close. I had some fun today and made a new song playlist of summertime songs. There's tons! I typed in summer to the search box and it come up with over 2,000 songs :). So I'm going to enjoy the rest of my summer to some good music.

Update

Hi all! Today was my last day of clinical at the nursing home, woohoo! It was certainly an experience over all, but it was hard and I don't think I'll miss it. Things I learned: to be more confident with myself and my abilities, be comfortable doing the things necessary to help people no matter how gross it is, nothing in real life nursing is textbook, talking about sensitive subjects with patients, I don't want to work in the nursing home, I don't want to be a nurse's aide in a nursing home, and I don't want to put my parents in a nursing home.

This summer is almost over. I can't believe how fast it flew by! I have two assignments due tomorrow, a test and a final and then I'm done with my classes. It's so awesome! I think I deserve a three week break that I'll get before fall starts.

I am definitely psyched to start fall semester. It is going to be a lot of work, but I am going to learn so much! MedSurg is when I really learn my skills for being a nurse (what farther along students have said). I will get to observe surgeries and pass medications and clean wounds, all sorts of fun gory stuff :)

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Update on the test

It was keyed wrong so the computer scored it lower than it should have. I got a 93, woohoo! Plus she hasn't gone through and looked at bad questions to throw out yet. So it may go up.

What do you call a nurse that graduates with B's?

I think I suck at being a nursing student. I always got really good grades during my pre-reqs and studied a lot. Now I study A TON and I'm really not doing so well. I am really good at practical stuff, hands-on, procedures, things that are important, but written tests, not so much. But what do they call a nurse that graduates with B's? An RN. That's what I've decided my new motto is. I will still try my best but I'm not going to freak out if only get an 86 on the test I just took when I was positive that I only missed 3 questions. Ok, I'm over it.

Okay some more frustrations and then I will end on a happy story that happened during clinical. Sometimes I wonder about our classes. I feel like some of the things we do are complete waste of time. How have the students before us not stood up and said something about this before us? Whatever their reasons, I don't care. I am standing up. I'm currently drafting a letter to the dean of the college requesting an entire change in the layout of our Nursing Research class. I have legitimate reasons why we don't need to spend class time on certain topics because we have already learned them in many of our other classes and it's just useless repeat. I am being very professional and not just complaining but offering a real solution to the problem. The other stupid class I have is what we call, Communication Lab. Now this class, unlike research has a lot of potential to be beneficial, it is just going in the completely wrong direction. Right now it's basically a relief society lesson every week. Let's learn how to be compassionate and listen to our patients. Okay, first of all, how could a person even get through life this far without doing some of these things. Second, don't you think that we already know how to do this otherwise we wouldn't really want to be a nurse? Some things that have been suggested this semester are aspects of communication that we actually need to learn how to do like: talk to a doctor, put disease explanations into layman's terms, handle workplace conflicts, get telephone orders, handle combative patients.

Okay, I'm done complaining. I have a patient that I'm responsible for in the nursing home, we'll call her Ann. Ann, on a first meeting is not a very nice person. She has something called, agorphobia, which is fear of people or social situations. You can only imagine. Each morning, "good morning, Ann"..."TURN THE DAMN LIGHTS OFF!" It is actually quite hilarious at times, but it does start to get old. Because of her surface negative attitude nobody spends any time with her. She doesn't like to get out of bed and tells people to leave her alone and turn the lights off. Well, I decided to try a little bit harder. We have a lot of down time during clinical so lucky I was able to do this and it was really neat for me. Luckily Ann was in a little bit better mood one morning and was willing to go down to the Dining Room to eat breakfast. When she came back to her room she was grumpy and asked me turn to the lights off. I did but I stayed in there with her. I talked with her, mostly just coaxed her to talk by asking questions about some pictures that she had and an Elvis movie that she had on her table. She got to talking a little bit to me. She has slight dementia, but she knows that she does so she couldn't remember a lot but I think it was nice for her to have someone to talk to. No one even put forth any effort before. Well soon enough, 9am rolled around and that means The Price is Right, definitely can't talk during that. But I sat with her. After about 20 minutes of just sitting with her I got up to go and Ann said, "You leavin already?" I said I just had to go check a couple things and asked if she needed anything. "She said, you've done more than enough. Thank you." That is huge for Ann!! Usually she kicks people out of the room. It was so cool for me.

You never know what's underneath that first layer of someone. First impressions are not always correct. Give people some time and you may make there day and/or your own.

The Dark Knight

Oh my gosh, this was the best movie that I have seen in a really long time. I saw it on Friday night with a group of friends and it was an experience! Even still I'm not quite sure how to describe it except incredible amazing, in every aspect. The acting, special effects, story line, everything about it was out of this world. Christian Bale was of course, gorgeous. Heath Ledger, not so gorgeous, but did an outstanding job as the Joker. If you are going to see it, I would most definitely heed the MPAA rating, PG-13. The Joker was scary and creepy (he's a masochistic serial killer if that gives you an idea). Don't bring your kids to see this movie, Ledger will probably give them nightmares, as he did himself. But I would definitely recommend seeing it on the big screen, it will probably be in theaters for quite some time. I read that it broke the record for midnight showings sales, not surprised. It was edge of your seat the entire time! I quite literally was sitting on the edge of my seat, and I no longer have fingernails. Unpredictable, it breaks all the rules of storytelling and is just awesome! GO SEE IT!!!!!

Some great quotes:
"You complete me."
"You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villian."
"You like ballet, then?"
"Should I go to the hospital?"
"Conspirator? I'm going to tell them the whole thing was your idea."

PS: Did anyone else know that Aaron Eckhart, the guy who plays Harvey Dent/Two Face, was Mormon??? He went to BYU to study film.

Cha Cha Cha

I'd like to formally announce how totally awesome my roomie Cha is. She was accepted to the Accounting program at BYU which is among the highest ranked, most competitive programs in the country. The Marriott School surpasses even some of the Ivy League schools with this program.

CONGRATS CHA!!!!!

Picture taken by my other totally awesome x-roomie, Sarah.
Breanne, you're totally awesome too!!!!
:)