Midterms & Acute Care Clinical!!

Well, kids! I have made it through Midterms. I have learned a few things and I have a few things to share.

• First and foremost, I need to learn how to not favor studying for one over the other. I have always had this problem and since pharmacology makes more sense, I spent the better part of my time studying for this one. 
• I got a heads up that the pharm midterm was basically verbatim from the midterm worksheet. I studied off of that one alot but I also didn't want her to change the test when it got to us so I also studied other stuff too. That test was on a computer so we got instant results. It was pretty much verbatim off the worksheet give or take 5 questions. I got a 98%. Not to brag, but I was happy (I say that with a big grin on my face.)
• My first Skills Lab quiz went well on the eyes and ears assessment. I got a 94%. The second one was on Medication Administration. I got an 87%. Not my best test but it was a hard one. So I was pleased.
•  I got to test off on 3 skills this week. IM Injection, Injection Sites and Mixing Insulin. I got 100% on the IM, 95% on the Sites cuz I stumbled over a few things (I blame Midterms, my head wasn't on Skills) and 95% on Insulin cuz dummy me, said I had to have a 34 unit total and then only pulled back to 24 units. I'm lucky I didn't fail that one.
• My Fundamentals Midterm, uh that wasn't so good. Like I said I favored studying for Pharm over this one so that was issue #1. Then the first round of students took it. The prof had to hand grade them cuz she thought the scantron did it wrong. Either it did or everyone bombed it! I still don't know. From what I heard, many of the students ended up with a score in the 70 percentile range.  Remember, for Nursing classes, a solid 80.00% is passing and it has to be on exam/quiz grades alone. A 79.99% is failing. No rounding up. Now my classes turn! Since it was paper we had to wait to the evening to see our grades. I worked up the courage to look at it (this coming from the girl who waited over a year to look at her final grades one semester). I got a 78%. FML!!!! One wrong too many. I failed it. My test/quiz grade is an 80.55% meaning I'm passing by 0.55% which is passing but I have to step it up.
• Now on to Clinical!!! Acute Care!!! Hospital!!!
• Orientation on Thursday was a lot of information especially since we do all the charting on a computer program that looks circa 1993. Takes me back to Plover/Whiting Computer Lab days!
• Unfortunately our instructor became ill so our orientation was cut short. 
• Friday we had a sub instructor and she was really cool! My first patient was awesome and very eager to cooperate. She said that I could be her nurse any day and that since she didn't have a daughter she was adopting me. 
• Clinical ended with a lot of shock. We have a huge paper and exam at the end that our instructor never told us about! So I became a bit overwhelmed, but as one of my classmates says, one day at a time. It's true, I just work one day at a time and chug my way through.

So my week started crazy and ended crazy. I'm just glad to be over midterms cuz they were insane!!!
Now I have 10 weeks down and only 7 weeks and 3 semesters to go!!! Next week is November, there is a light at the end of this tunnel!!!