1st Semester Clinical...Check!

From the title you can see that I have checked my 1st Semester Clinical off of my list! Today I had my last clinical day. The last clinical day where I only have one patient. My last clinical day at Riverview (at least until possibly March). My last Clinical day with this group of women. My last Clinical day with 3 different instructors (or I hope to God it is!) The day I got to do my first real Saline Lock! The day I actually knew all the meds I was administering and what they did (minus one) when I was asked about them! The day I didn't want to be at clinical but I was glad I went cuz I need all the Clinical hours I can get! The Semester is winding down and with that my work load (thank God!)

• Skills Lab is over! That actually makes me really sad. I love skills lab. I'm gonna miss my skills classmates, we were like the perfect group together. I'm gonna miss my instructor, cuz she was awesome! I learned so much in there as well as had many scary moments, especially when I had to test out on stuff. 
• On my last day of skills lab I tested out of my last two skills. Those were IV Piggyback Meds (crazy name, right?) and regulating an IV Pump. I passed with flying colors! I also took my last Skills quiz and it was harder than hell. I got an 87%, whew!! I thought I bombed that one!
• Even though class is over for Skills Lab, I still have my Physical Assessment. I'm taking my little brother Cory with me and I get to assess him. I'm hoping I do alright on that. It would be nice to put one last good grade in my gradebook for that class. I do that on Wednesday, practice, practice, practice!
• If you couldn't tell, Clinical is over!! However, I still have to do Simulations or Sims for short where there is a practice dummy that talks and has a heart beat, breathes, throws up, etc. I am given a scenario and I have to go in there and act like I'm his nurse and in essence make him better. I'm nervous as hell! 15 minutes of sweating and heart pounding fun, that's on Thursday. I also have to take a Pharmacology ATI test Thursday morning. That will suck major balls!!
• Speaking of ATI, I took the Fundamentals exam on Wednesday and all my practice ones were really good, then I take the real one. I felt like a dumbass, cuz it was harder than hell. I passed it but just barely with an 82%.  Which is awesome cuz otherwise I'd have to retake it until I pass it.
• I also took another pharmacology exam in Clinical and our instructor gave us a review which she said if we knew the information she presented in the reveiw, we'd be golden for our exam.  And then I got the test and yea, I felt really ill prepared. I don't know how I did it, but I managed a 95%, one wrong. I guessed right on about 6 or so questions. Glad that one's over.
• I got my graded care plan back and like a dumbass, never attached my bibliography. So I lost 3 points on that, and with the other couple of errors, I got a 93% on it. Oh well, when I did that thing at 3:30am, I was just glad to have it over.
• Oh and I got my 23 page Physical Assessment paper back. I knew it was graded and I could've looked at my grade online but I didn't want to on account of my brain coming up with 2 nightmares while I slept that I bombed that thing. So I just waited until I got the actual paper back. I got (drum roll please.............................) 98%!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I couldn't believe it! I almost crapped my pants! I WIN!!!!!
• Last weekend I was lazy lazy lazy. Kassandra and I also went to see Breaking Dawn Part 2. It was awesome cuz what I wanted to happen in the book actually happened! Everyone started fighting and most of them died!!! Of course it was just one of Alice's visions, but it was like YES!!! Something is actually happening!! The movie was a nice break and got my mind off of school. This weekend I will be busting my ass off learning my physical assessment stuff, sims and pharm practice. It will be a fun time. NOT!!

I now have, my friends, 15 weeks completed. I have 2 weeks (well actually 5 actual class days) and 3 Semesters to go!!