Tips to help you succeed....

Well my friends, I have survived week 3!!! Only 14 more weeks go to, holy crap how did that happen so fast!?!?! This week wasn't so bad. There was a teacher day on Tuesday so we had NO class! It allowed me ample catch up time and extra time to study for my quiz I had on Wednesday. My week in review:

• I have spent more time in two of the Portage County Public Libraries in the last 2 weeks than in my whole life. I will most likely have to start migrating to the UWSP library cuz it's open later than the public libraries.
• I have been doing awesome on my discussion question papers. They have been flawless points wise! Which I need cuz I need all the points I can get. One of my profs even commented that she enjoys reading my writing style. I guess my Bachelor of Arts degree with all the hundreds of pages of essays and papers written has definitely paid off! Oh and the fact I know how to cite sources and write bibliographies helps a lot too!
• I tested out of another skill in skills lab. I can now do wound cares in my clinical! (I have even learned some new tips and tricks for how to do wound care at work. And I'm not talking about going out of my scope of practice, but tips for aseptic technique).
• I took my first quiz! It was in Skills Lab and I got a 93% on it! Only 2 wrong. That gave me a HUGE confidence boost. It's like "maybe I CAN pass, well skills lab at least!"
• I have a quiz in Fundamentals that opens up on Sunday at noon and closes on Tuesday at 7AM. It's online and you basically get question 1 and you answer it and click next. Then you can't go back. It's timed and you take it at home. Needless to say I'm scared shitless. The idea of reading a question and not being able to go back to it terrifies me.  They tell you not to read into questions, well so if I don't know it right away I usually will skip it and go back. Well I can't anymore. So this should be interesting. I'll either do fine or I'll bomb it. 
• We had an optional seminar to go to on Tips To Help You Succeed. We also got extra credit for fundamentals! The nursing counselor gave it. I really enjoyed it. I did get some new outlooks on the program.  He told us to make lists of why we are doing this, our goal as to why we want to be nurses. Mine went something like this:
• The Paycheck!
• I want to buy a house and a newer car
• I want to go to Europe and that's my reward to myself for graduating
• I don't want to be a CNA forever
• I want to prove past teachers wrong who said I'd never be a nurse, let alone get into a nursing program. Well I proved them wrong on the later. Gotta love teachers who crush your dreams
• I want to hand my dad my first paycheck to show him and my mom that their investment in my education was worth it
• I don't want to work in Youth Ministry anymore
• Then we made a list of things that can deter us from succeeding and if they are controllable then we need to control it and if it's uncontrollable, let it go.
• He also gave us tips on studying that I'm putting into use today to see how it affects my learning
• Yesterday we also had to take this beyond stupid test. It was horrid! I actually did equal or better than all the people I took it with and was pretty much on the same page as the national scores but I got a 64% on it. That is horrid! At least it wasn't anything to do with nursing.
• Then we took a personality test! Thank you for telling me what I already know! Needless to say none of us were ready to be told we were stupid at 8 o'clock in the morning.

 Well next week should be interesting. It's my last week without clinical and then I really need to learn when to study since I will no longer have Thursday and Friday off. This will be a busy weekend cuz I work Saturday, Sunday & Monday. Hopefully I'll get all my work and studying done and actually get better than an 80% on my quiz. Pray for me!