Slacking on the Blogging...

I'll admit it, I'm blogging a little late. I will try to remember the key elements from the last week!

• This was the week that killed me. Literally. I was so ready to die. Over the weekend I had a sore throat and a stuffy nose. At first I thought that it was allergies but oh no! I got the full blown flu! Flu shot my ass! If anything, that GAVE me the flu. Nursing majors have been dropping like flies and I was one of them. I worked the weekend then Monday. Monday night I was working on my Pharmacology Worksheet and I pretty much passed out. My bones were cold, everything hurt. I ended up staying home on Tuesday. I missed skills lab and pharmacology. I missed a quiz and testing out of skills. It sucked. Needless to say, Wednesday I went back to school but felt so much better cuz I NEEDED sleep.
• So in skills lab I retook my quiz from Tuesday on Wednesday and got a 79%. That quiz was really hard. Then I had a second one that I took and got a 95% on it, whew! I also tested out of skills for irrigating a urinary catheter, obtaining a urine specimen from a catheter, irrigating a colostomy and placing a new colostomy device. Lots of stuff but I got it all done!!
• Clinical meant giving 2 more subq's of Lovenox! I am getting to be a shot expert, well, in the stomach.
• I also had my process recording to write for clinical. I have to admit that that was the most retarded paper I've ever written. I had to have a conversation with a resident from long term care then write it out verbatim and comment on the non verbal language. Then I had to write what I did well in my communicating and what I needed to improve it. It was beyond stupid and I got a 92% on it. Thank God that's over!
  
  12 weeks down, 5 weeks and 3 semesters to go!