They're dropping like flies!

I think instead of saying "dropping like flies" it should be "dropping like nursing students". We have lost four students this semester! I really thought that by the time we got through Nursing 1, most of the weeding out would be over--I was wrong! In our nursing building, the classrooms get progressively smaller (ie, NSG 1 has a very large classroom; NSG 2 is almost as big, but not quite; NSG 4 and NSG 5 classrooms are pretty small). Our NSG 2 class had to swap classrooms with NSG 4 because our class is smaller than theirs. One of the girls in my clinical group got swapped to another group to even out the numbers! My clinical group is down to 7 from 9.
NSG 2 has gotten a lot better than it was at the beginning of the semester, but it still is worse than NSG 1. I love (most of) my instructors, but this content is hard.

I've been sitting here for a while reading about kidney diseases. I long since glazed over. I have no idea what this book is talking about. I understand the UTI section, but the nephrotic syndrome and acute and chronic glomerulonephritis sent me for a loop. On top of this, Monday's class didn't lay a very good foundation. We had a student teacher try to teach the class and her powerpoint didn't work, so she pretty much read the slides to us. She needs to work on her transition statements. I never knew when she was changing topics and then got behind in my notes--it was a disaster. An instructor was in there the whole time and kept on interrupting her to try and elaborate on the subject matter. I finally quit taking notes and resolved to just read the sections to get the information.

So, off to school I go. I'm writing a care plan on my patient this week, so I don't know how much time I'll actually have to blog. Maybe some. Leslie is in Texas for a nursing convention, so I'm friendless for the week.

Stay tuned...