Midterms, Clinicals and Birthdays

I FINALLY MADE IT PAST MIDTERM!!! Sometimes I hit nursing milestones that make me want to sing the hallelujah chorus. I got past midterm. I even made an A on my midterm--a 92 to be exact. That sure did help my grade out a lot! I also got my first clinical paper back and made an A on it. I'm thrilled to be getting my grades back on track. Those first few test grades at the beginning of the semester really got me down. This next week, our clinical groups change. I'm sad to lose my clinical instructor--she's fabulous, but I'm going to another really good one. I also change floors in the hospital. I've been doing clinical on the same floor since Nursing I. I am kinda excited about it though because we spend some time on the cardiac floor. I haven't gotten to see many cardiac patients yet. I think the pace is a bit faster down there too.
The best part about changing clinical groups is that you change clinical times. Before I had clinical from 7am to 11:30am. That meant VERY early mornings. Now I have clinical from 10:00 to 2:30PM. I get a little more sleep this way. It also means that we get to do different stuff. The first group each morning does beds, baths and meds. We will give way fewer meds in the afternoon, plus, we have time to do all the other fun care. We'll have more time to put in catheters, do venipuncture labs and stuff.

Tomorrow is my birthday. But this is the least I've EVER cared about my birthday. Usually I celebrate my birthday for the week before and the week after my actual birthday, but this year, I haven't had time to even think about it. I've been so busy with nursing school that birthday has been the least of my concerns. I will be 28 tomorrow. Not very exciting. I don't think 28 is a milestone for anything. Oh well...

have a great week, Readers.
stay tuned....