Bruised Ego and Idiot Test

Ok, let me just say wow. Nursing Skills Lab was a bitch and a half today. I just feel completely stupid and over whelmed now. Well I guess I've felt like that since I've started but today was just a kick in the gut.

We're learning how to do Blood Pressures. The instructors were asking us questions about what is causing the sounds and I just drew a complete blank on the anatomy. Then we, rightfully, get scolded for not remembering the valves and flow of blood. It was just in they way they said it that I feel completely stupid. Right after I get done with this I'm going to hit my books. I also have a test coming up Thursday that I need to get prepared for in lecture.

Lecture, by the way, wasn't much better. We had a "pop quiz" where the instructor asked us to identify the 6 stages of infection. For some odd reason I thought she said 7. So, fortunately for me I did get them all, but I was sitting there pounding my head trying to figure out what the 7th was. Even when she had them all written on the board I didn't catch on that there were only 6 not 7.

I'm just feeling very dumb right now. I just have to realize i need to buckle down and study a lot harder.

It's like the little engine that could. "I know I can. I know I can. I know I can!"

From Shared

Now to review my anatomy. Study the chapters for Thursday and drink a nice cold Labbat Blue Light. Dang neighbors started getting healthy and I've been peer pressured into drinking light beer. Soon though I'll be getting a couple packs of the fall seasonal beers. I'm a huge fan of them. Fall is the time of beer and there fore the time of Sucellus. May he help me get through this with most of my sanity intact.

My What a long time it's been

So well, Life has gone on pretty well since my last confessional to the void that is the inkernet. Still drinking my beers one at a time. Kind of hard putting more the one bottle or mug in your mouth at the same time. Guess i could use straws but then it'd get all foamy.

So, new of my life, may it interest you much.

I've officially started clinicals in Nursing. Talk about stress. Had to study 3 chapters in 2 days. This might not seem like a lot but I've also had to clean house after my 3 kids and wife, who is now the bread winner of our little tribe. Also soccer practice, karate, and gymnastics. Not to mention making lunches and meeting with school teachers. I'm also in the midst of a custody battle for my daughter. I've been a little stressed. ah well such is life.

Any who. Nursing school. Love it even with all the stress. First lab freaked all of us out. We go to the lab to learn about positioning, this is how you place a patient in the bed.

The instructor breaks us up into groups and assigns us a position to demonstrate. So we all look in the book and set the "patient" up to look like the picture in the book. We have some idea what we're doing because we are all good students and did read the assigned pages. My group was the first one to explain what we did. We explain everything we read in the assigned readings from our syllabus. Then the instructor starts asking us questions about stuff that wasn't there and we're all making brown stains in our pants.

Come to find out there are also chapters in our lecture book that we're supposed to be reading too. So we flip open the big book of nursing and start skimming to come up with answers. All around the lab you hear the big book slamming open and people scurrying to locate the necessary info.

Well we made it through that and have lived to tell the tale, but let me tell you it really gets a type "A" students heart racing when you're expected to read stuff you had no way of knowing to read.

Up for this weekend is Blood Pressures. Let me tell you I'm going to be scrubbing out brown stains all weekend till Monday. Luckily my mom has a cuff for me to use to practice. I just feel bad for my wife's arm.

P.S. I want to thank the Pagan Soccer Mom for stopping by and reminding me that i have this little stress release thing-a-ma-bob