I have completed my first semester of nursing school! Only 4 more to go before I'm let loose on the world. I'm still not sure how I'm going to be magically transformed into someone with life-saving/sustaining skills in this short amount of time - this whole experience is kind of like boot camp for nurses.
E and I recently took Smarty-pants girl to the river. Smarty-pants girl is not exactly the outdoorsy type, but she did surprisingly well. No complaining or anything, well, not much complaining. It was pretty funny watching her gingerly make her way down the very steep trail that leads to the river while holding a cell phone in one hand and bottled water in the other and carrying a very large bag filled with ... what? I don't know. A laptop maybe? She was quite the trooper, though. She even endured being showered with the river water that our dogs shook off. This was probably the only time in her entire life that she will ever step foot in water that hasn't been purified, so I feel like I've contributed in some small way to making her a more well-rounded individual.
School is out for 3 weeks and I'm already puttering around the house wondering what it is I used to do before life as a nursing student. I figured cleaning my house was a good place to start, and in doing so I found my banjo! Ahhh ... a project. Can I learn to play the thing in only 3 weeks? Stay tuned ... Speaking of tuning, I totally broke a string trying to tune up the banjo, so my homeschooling on a musical instrument is postponed until further notice.
Today I got out my studio supplies and started playing around with some creative stuff! Mostly all I've managed to create is a huge mess in the middle of the floor.
Over this nice, long break I do actually have some things to take care of. First on the agenda is getting the school to release my summer school tuition reimbursement check. This needs to happen soon, like last week. Or there's going to be trouble. BIG TROUBLE. The kind that involves me asking my friends to post bail.
Next on the list of Things To Do is get my scrubs for next semester! They have to be embroidered ... at least until the Powers That Be change their minds. I'm totally going to try the Grey's Anatomy scrubs, because that material? It's totally fabulous! Unlike regular scrub material, the GA scrubs are made from a rayon blend and they actually drape. So instead of looking like I'm wearing frumpy pajamas, I'll look like I'm wearing silky pajamas. And that would totally rock.
Other things include stuff like getting my car checked out because it's making some weirdo noise, getting Puck's nails trimmed, and cleaning my lab coat. I wore my lab coat for all of 2 hours and now it's filthy ... how does this happen?
Grades haven't been posted yet, but I know I got an A in that wretched online class. And I made a 100 on my final skills assessment in Health Assessment class, I also made a 100 on the documentation part for the skills assessment, and I made a 96 on the final exam .... who's a rock star! (Just for the record, Smarty-pants girl made a 90 on the final exam. Seems the actual skills of nursing are a bit more challenging for her than Patho was ... nice to know there is balance in the world)
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