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Yesterday is such a blur.
I got to school earlier than ever (don't know how that happened), and got a parking place RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE NURSING BUILDING!!! And Murphy's law says, that's the one day that I have to go to the library (which is much closer to the bad parking places) to take my test. Oh well...I parked in front of the nursing building anyway, just for the principle of the thing.
The test was easier than I thought it would be. 48 questions, 2 math problems.... I had a question about one of the multiple choice because it was a very subjective question. It was a scenario and the question basically asked, "What is this patient thinking?" Ultimately, who knows? I thought the correct answer would've been--Ask the patient. But that wasn't an option. I chose the answer that I thought was best and moved on. Other than that, the test was pretty easy (but I had studied a lot for it too). There's a lady in my class who was in Nursing 1 last semester and is having to re-take it for some reason. She assured us that the second test would be harder than this. One person didn't show up on test day...wonder if she'll be our first to drop out?

**I have learned that although the program outcomes say that 51% will graduate, this nursing program consistently has a better graduation rate than that. The last class to graduate had 29 in it. That's 2/3 of the starting class! I also learned that they have many years (recent years) of 100% NCLEX pass rates. That was very reassuring to me!**

After the test, we had 2 hours of lecture on pain and pain management. It's amazing what all I knew that I didn't know I knew. A lot of the pain information, my mother-in-law told me sometime in the past. It all came flooding back during the lecture, so the lecture reinforced what I knew and taught me some to build on that (thanks, Nancy!).
Lab starts next week, but a few of us plan to stay after class on Monday and practice our bed-making while the labs are still pretty empty. We're afraid after we officially start lab, they will be full of people. We've had the lecture on bed-making and bath giving and the instructions that they want us to follow are in the book, so we're going to go take a stab at it. Maybe that way, when we get to lab on Tuesday, we'll be able to perfect our skills instead of trying them for the first time.

I met our church ladies in Hattiesburg last night for dinner. We were ALL able to go out. I think the birthday girl had a wonderful time!!
My sleep schedule is officially started. I was trying to fall asleep last night at 9:00. I didn't go to bed until about 11:30, but was WIDE AWAKE at 8:00 this morning. I know some of you are rolling your eyes at me because you haven't slept until 8:00 a day in your lives, but for me--a sleep-aholic--8:00 is early, especially on a Saturday when I have the chance to sleep and sleep and sleep. It's okay though. I don't mind. Dave is gone to a church meeting, so I have all morning to study and just have some quiet time.
So far, I've made the bed (yes, mom, I do know how to make the bed), played on Webkinz and written this post. Not very productive, but I don't move so quickly in the mornings!

Talk to you next week--
Lad