Back from the weekend...

This weekend flew!! Before I knew it, it was Sunday night (and I still had lots of work to do). I decided to stay with Jenna and Mel for the next couple of days, so that my drive time will be cut by almost 40 minutes one way. Tuesday and Wednesday lab begins at 7am (and 7am comes early).
Today in class we discussed Urinary and Bowel Elimination. I'm so thankful that I worked for a GI during grad school. It makes elimination not quite so gross. I've already been desensitized to it. At a GI's office, just about everything is related to poop. We're starting to cover skills that we'll be putting to practice in clinical as nursing 1 students. For example, removing Foley catheters, catheter hygiene, etc. The theory of it doesn't bother me, but I wonder about the actual practice of it. ***This is the time for all you RN's to chime in with hints, encouragement and what you know***
The professor that I didn't care for very much was our lecturer again today. Maybe we won't have her again for a while since we've had her twice in two class periods. She didn't do as bad today as before. She still stood in front of her PowerPoint some of the time, but after she came into class this morning, I moved the lecturn (while she was out of the room) so that she had more room to pace around. SEVERAL people thanked me for that. I was not the only one that she aggrevated last week.
We got our tests back at the end of class and I made an A! I actually made a 96 because I missed two questions (that I shouldn't have missed) for dumb errors. But an A is still an A!! There are people who made below a 78 which is D and F territory, but I don't think many. The girl that didn't take her test on Friday was back today. We were all afraid that we wouldn't get our tests back because of her, but they just sent her out of the room to go take her test while we got ours back and reviewed them.
After class we had a Nursing 1 welcome party, hosted by the higher nursing classes. It was nice. Supposedly each of us "first years" has a second or third semester nursing student as a mentor. They were supposed to find us during the party, but mine didn't find me. Several of us didn't have anyone "claim" us. Oh well...
Still some folks in class that make me nuts. Some of them talk too much (I never thought I'd think that of someone else) and really have nothing to say or at least nothing intelligent to say.
I'm kind of excited about tomorrow--starting Lab. Wednesday is going to be a little uncomfortable though. We're practicing bed baths--on each other. Our lab manual instructed us to wear conservative under garments. (My modesty feels violated.) Oh well, I'd have to do it if these people were my nurse in the hospital.
I've got a lot of reading to do, so--see you later!

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