Tuesday evening with no clinical prep, whoohooo!!!

Well since I didnt have to go to the hospital to prep on my patient and come home late due to traffic and stay up till 2 doing a damn care plan with 1o medications=blog entry time. lol. Anyhoo, tomorrow I'm going into the OR, I'm excited but I think moreso because I wont have to be on the floor. Last week went pretty fast in medsurg, I was giving meds, charting like crazy and I got myself a lucky patient who was a teacher/baseball coach in his previous life who questioned me on everything and gave me tips. He pretty much grilled me in front of my professor, but I can tell it was good natured so I didnt get any hard feelings. It actually kept me on my toes. So thus far I've given two insulin & one heparin subcut, filgrastim subcut(stimulates neutrophils), and a whole bunch of po meds. Oh yeah I started a IV piggyback med.

And guess what last week in maternity was so amazing, finally was able to see a vaginal delivery. The last time I saw one was like 6ys ago, in high school where they had us do an internship in our career interest(always knew I wanted to deliver babies). Anyhoo, I really forgot how big the coochie(yes I call it coochie) got, it was humungous. What made it so interesting was that I was assigned to a lesbian couple. You're probably like so what its 2007, but that's big relative to being in a posh posh maternity unit, all pregancies are planed, all pregnant women that I have encountered are in the mid-30s, all are married with hubby right there, very typical "American TV" nuclear family. So when I was assigned this couple I was pretty psyched. I even asked how did they decide who would carry. They were very nice and I thanked them for letting me take part in their bithing experience. Oh yeah I also did the first apgar check on the baby(I'm cheesing b/c I felt real comfortable), vitamin K shot, and erythromyocin on the baby's eyes. All in all it was awesome and she pushed like four times with no screaming or grunting and the baby was out. The labor went pretty fast, not even 4 hrs I was very impressed.

Okay next topic, my pharm professor has been removed due to student complaints of her teaching incapabilities. We freakin got two weeks left, sheesh they should have just let her finish. Guess what? The prof replacing her is mad hard based on the info from the grapevine, supposedly she had to do a big curve last time. So we just went to worse to worser(I know thats not a word but it just needed to be there). that freakin suck, no really. Oh well this means pharm will be my best friend for the next two weeks its worth 40% of my grade. Pray for me.:)

By the way, why am I already applying to grad school? I would like to start next summer. My maternity clinical instructor said she would do a recommendation letter for me. So that's one down two to go. I'm thinking of asking my psych or adult1 prof. We'll see! I think I would like the last one from community health next quater since thats going to be my focus when I start working in the field. Alrighty that's it much love.

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Grade Change

So here goes my week. On monday, our professor went over our women's health midterm exams. Mind you after taking that exam, I walked out feeling pretty good thinking I most likely got my 'A'. So when I saw that I received a 'B' I was a little taken aback. I mean a 'B' is great and everything but I really wanted an 'A' seemingly this is my interest as far as furthering my nursing career. So shes going over the exam in class and we could hardly hear her, I sit right in the front so obviously those in the back definitely couldnt hear her. So someone kindlyask if she could speak up, can you tell me why she pursed her lips and got lower. Anyhoo, all I could do is just laugh thinking "is she serious?". Some people got up and left, which I dont blame them. Anyhoo, the little bits that I could catch I believed I got them correct. SO afterwards a couple of students approached her kindly asking how was it graded b/c they were kinda suprised about their grades. She got very defensive stating she herself and our other professor who's also c0-teaching graded each exam by hand and all the grades are correct yada yada and they gave everybody 2pts for a question. Ask me why? Especially when it was scantroned. So she turns to me and I'm like "I'll just email you to schedule an appt." b/c I really wasnt in the mood for someone to get flipped with me. So later on that afternoon, our other professor(who's a CNM she's real sweet and a great instructor) emailed us informing she will have available our exams if we would like to go over our scantrons ourself.

So here's the good news, after going over my exam I went from a 'B' to an 'A'. Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeyyyy! Could you imagine if I didnt question my exam or didnt go to that review. Another classmate went from pretty much failing to a 'B". That in itself is very alarming. This makes my question my other 'B" that I received in pharm b/c she said there was some problems with some individuals who utilized mechanical pencils. Of course I used a mechanical pencil so I emailed her also to schedule an appt to go over my scantron.Anyhoo the moral of the story, if you question ur grade dont hesitate to politely request to go over it. Plus its great to know what da hell you got wrong so next time you'll know the correct respoonse because you will definitely see it again. Especially in this program I want every point I earned, even if there's a possible discrepancy for 2 pts. b/c you never know in the end you might just have need those exactly 2 pts to pass that class. So midterm grades are as follows Adult I-A, Matrnity-A heeeeeeeeeeeyyy, Psych-A, and beloved Pharm-B. Alrighty until next time. Much love.

I WILL SURVIVE THIS PROGRAM

Okay I just made it thru this programs second midterm. Brain exhaustion should be a diagnosis for nursing students especially at this fast pace. Well after taking my last midterm this morning I came home crashed on the floor and woke up at 2. Not bad considering I had only 4hrs of sleep, which I found out from my A&P professor that's the minimum you need to functionally do well on an exam. I think I did well. I ended the week with Psych, which I feel the exam was very fair. It could have been worst.

I got my grade back for pharm, maternity, and Adult 1. Pharm-B, Adult I-A, and Maternity-B. Still waiting on Psych to post. I love Maternity but because of this fast pace program I really don't have the time to really really enjoy it. I guess I'll have the time when I enter my dream school midwifery program. Plus I plan on doing it part-time while working full-time.

My main goal is to address the lack of prenatal care in under served communities. I really want to focus on my black people because the numbers are alarming. Most likely upon graduating from my dream CNM school which is forecasted to be in 4yrs I would like to start practicing in a community health center. I would like to also do some research and a whole bunch of other stuff which I will get into in upcoming posts.

For now I am happy that I'm doing pretty well in a quarter that usually weeds out people. In the name of Jesus I will make it thru this quarter.