No post since Wednesday? I've been BUSY! This little blog has turned into therapy for me and I've been too preoccupied to post! So lets back track a bit.
Thursday was my first Fundamentals exam. And I passed! I broke a cardinal rule though, I went back through and changed an answer, dropping me from a low B to a high C. :( But...
C=RN!!!!!!
We are really trying to not make that our motto at school, but our profs said it at orientation and it has stuck with us! There is just so much information that it would be impossible for us to be TAUGHT everything we need to know. A lot of the things we need to learn require critical thinking skills and are essentially learned on the exam. It's frustrating for everyone, seeing as that if we were "A" students we wouldn't even be in this program.
And tomorrow we are retaking the pharmacology exam. Last week I went in to take the exam at the testing center, and I could go in any time between 0900 and 2030. So I strolled in at around 10, started my computerized, proctored exam, and noticed that although the first question was easy to answer, it appeared the correct answer was highlighted! Strange. So I go to the next question. Same thing. After question number 4, I stopped. The fact remains that I have the worst luck on earth, and if I just ignored this obvious error, Lord knows that I would be the one student to not report it. So I reported it. Plus I have ethics, blah blah blah. :D So I had to stop the exam, waited around for the prof to call me back or call the testing center back, and after a bit I just gave up and went home. Come to find out I was NOT the only student to report it and the prof pulled the test down soon after I went home. Make up test is tomorrow. *sigh* Let's hope I know as many answers on the new test as I did on the old one!
Today is the last "pretend clinical" before we head out to the LTC center to work with real patients! We are wearing our uniforms for the first time today and learning to give injections. So I've been watching online videos all week that have funny little pretend syringes that you actually pull the plunger back on and draw up meds. Like that's going to help, lol!
And I miss my friends Still.
And I miss my family. John took the kids to the mountain to go sledding, build snowmen and throw snowballs. And I went to the library with Rowena to study. Responsibility is such a buzzkill. :(
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