Original idea? Not!!

Ok so apparently my "big" idea of blogging my way through nursing school/graduate school isn't so original after all. I've come across another great blog by Kendra over here that is basically the same thing I plan on doing. Although I AM planning on adding video's to my blog, as soon as I get my camera :) But anyhoo, if you are interested in a first hand experience through nursing school, head on over to Kendra's blog and check it out. She's one super smart chickie!

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I feel so inadequate...

So today I was reading Sophia's blog over at All Things NP , she's a NP student at Penn State. As I was reading about her interview process with Penn State & her rotations & her Sim Man day I started thinking, I am nowhere NEAR as smart as she is. I still struggle with what lab values are correct, much less IF they're off then why??!! I know that I don't put in as much time studying as some of my other classmates do and all of this makes me really doubt myself. When will this stuff start to really click? When will I start to KNOW this stuff? I wish I could spend more time studying than I do & in all honesty I probably could, but I also have a very busy life. I know that's not an excuse as everyone has their own "stuff", but I was seriously thinking as I was reading over her blog that I really need to buckle down & start reading a bit more. I definitely need to start studying more. I mean, I'm doing fine in my classes but PERSON

Got the job!!

So the director of the Med/Surg floor said I would hear something by today and well, I waited as long as I could before calling her seeing as I hadn't heard from her. I said I would wait until 4:00 but by 3:30 I was chomping at the bit so I called her. She said "I was just filling out your paperwork to offer you the job"!!! Yay me!! Now I know it's just a PCT/CNA job, but hey it gets my foot in the door right? I've talked to several of my friends who are in the semesters ahead of me & they've all said the same thing. "Get a job NOW". I have one friend who said she can't even get a PCT job b/c no one will hire her b/c she's too close to graduating. I never thought of that. Why wouldn't they want to hire you knowing that soon you'd be able to be a nurse there?? I don't know, but I am glad to have the job. The director said she thinks the pay is $10 an hour, which is pretty decent. I was worried they

One week down, two more to go...

Whew, one week of CNA class down, only 2 more to go. Thankfully yesterday was the last day of book work and our first "skill" practice...handwashing. Honestly, you wouldn't think handwashing would be a big deal, you'd be wrong. About half the class would have failed had they taken the skill yesterday and guess why? Because of the shake. You know the shake. You've just gotten done washing your hands and the water is still dripping off of them and so what do you do? Well, you shake the excess water off of course! Uh-uh, not on THIS test you don't. Our teacher told us that shaking was an automatic failure, can you believe it? Well it's true. So now we have to practice washing our hands with our fingers pointing down the whole time and NOT shaking off the excess water, lol. Who would have thought handwashing would actually be a learned skill. Next week we start learning all 26 other skills that we have to master in order to take the state test to

Did I REALLY sign up for this??

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