Nursing Stress

My take on nursing one day at a time

Sunday, October 16, 2005

~a break~

So its been a while since the last post. I have two days off from class on Monday and Tuesday so I have tried to not think about anything nursing :)

The last OB clinical came and went with no big surprizes. I had a post patient and there is absolutly nothing to do for them when everything is completly normal. My day was spent talking with the other students that had post patients and the instructor because she was giving us some valuble tips on our next tests in OB. She is really great at teaching I hope she goes back to school and gets her teaching classes finished because she would be a great teacher. She was trying to talk us into doing traveling nursing and if I am still single after my years experience I will the money is just too good not to while I'm still young. There was a Csection at 33 weeks which was interesting to see. The baby was having tons of trouble breathing and they ended up having to take it to a bigger hospital before they lost it. Retractions at 33 weeks looks like waves on their chest it was very sad but interesting to see.

My test was harder than I expected. The instructor just informed us she uses a different text book to make our test and won't tell us the name of this book. There were questions on that test of things I had never heard of before. Lots of the information on the test were nowhere in our book. I was stressed but I made a........90!!!!! I knew most of the material with some great educated guesses, but a lot of other students were not as lucky as I was with this test. The weekend before the test I decided to go do the things I had planned to do so I only got to study for about an hour to 2 hours each day. I think I over do studying anyway. Before I would study 2 days before the test all day long, but now I have changed. I study a little bit each day, and I don't have to cram before the test and it is so much easier takes away most of the stress. December is coming so fast...I can't believe this semester is almost over. I hope next semester goes by just as fast :)

Monday, October 03, 2005

~a bad day~

Mondays really suck especially when we are fussed at for any and everything every monday morning bright and early. I hate my school with a passion. Its not actually my school just the nursing department. These people test my patience every week. I'm not going into detail here because god forbid they throw me out with one semester left but I will say it is just wrong and cruel. I think they need to learn more professional conduct and learn to have all the compassion and kindness they always tell us to have because they have none at all. If my nursing classes would transfer I would be going to a different school right now. I seriously thought about walking out today because I was so frustrated and fed up with their crap but then reality set in and I can hold out until May I hope without losing my mind or hurting someone...What I have learned from all of this is to look into schools better from now on and not believe the selling points they throw at you. I wish I would have talked to some of the students and got the real deal from them before I committed to a school over an hour away who decides to send me to a clinical TWO hours away but thats a different story I've already fussed about.
I have two test coming up. I have to be up at 4am tomorrow, won't get home until about 4-4:30, have to finish looking up labs and do careplans to be turned in the next day, and study for a test wednesday. I have a dinner I was going to go to tomorrow night with about 20 friends but it looks like personal life is going to be put on hold AGAIN. I have to study for my other test starting wednesday after class and study every day just about all day until Monday. Fall break is coming up and I'm so ready for the rest!