High Honors ...

I ended up with an "A-" in my nightmare main theory class, an "A" in my EOL (End of Life) class and an "A" for my clinicals. I could not be more proud of myself, I am not naturally a straight A student. It was an AWEFUL quarter! Yeah, it's over, halleluiah!

One more round ...

Wow, 5TH quarter is finally over! Hallelujah! I am greatly looking forward to rolling up my sleeves and getting my hands back into patient care and giving medications. I just pray God keeps me safe (or rather my patients).

:o)

I think I can, I think I can!!!!

I am sooooooooooo done with this quarter! I have two take home questions for final that are worth 20 out of the 80 points on my final and I really don't want to do them! I have the first question answered mostly and I am totally stuck! Ugh! I just have to keep telling myself yet again ... I think I can, I think I can, I think I can!

Light at the end of the tunnel ...

I am so happy the quarter is almost over. I feel like there is finally a light at the end of the tunnel. I had no idea how rough this quarter would be. I am so glad that I made it to my last 6 clinicals "early" and was not held back. I am looking forward to next quarter. I am certainly nervous though ... all hands on is exciting and very intimidating. I hope I get a really awesome preceptorship location. I am keeping my fingers crossed, just 2.5 more weeks to go this quarter and only 3.5 remaining months to go!!! Yippee!!!

Computers ...

My laptop has been on the fritz for a while so I made sure (or so I thought) to copy my "Nursing School" folder that has EVERYTHING from 1st quarter until now that I have worked on, onto my external hard drive. When I went to pull up my research paper that I have worked on for 4 quarters to edit for the (hopefully) last time it wasn't there!!!! My laptop is so messed up now that I can't get anything off of it, can't email it, can't print it and can only view it in windows "compatibility mode". I nearly burst into tears; I was sickened by the thought that at 1130 at night I would have to re-type all 8 pages ... I am barely better than a hunt-and-peck typist, it would take me all night to retype all 2,036 words! Fortunately my husband eventually was able to get a copy of the file off of the laptop so I could edit it on our desktop and print it for class tomorrow. I still have so much more on there that I want to get off, what a mess.   

Crazy!

AHHHHHHHHHHHH ... yeah that’s about all I have the energy for this quarter. I am literally surviving week by week! I am barely able to keep up and all other activities have fallen to the wayside!

I feel like the little engine that could " I think I can, I think I can, I think I can"!

Oye!

Trust in God ...

I am wracked with anxiety over nursing school. I made my clinical instructor mad and now my life is beyond stressful. I can barely stand my current level of stress in  this situation! I am so overwhelmed! I just want to graduate and become a good nurse. I am over this nursing program and the poor quality of education I have been subjected to for almost 2 years. The first two quarters of the program was great, hard work but very educational. The 3rd quarter had a yin & yang feel with theory being hellish and clinicals being so much fun. When we got to 4th quarter we thought that it couldn’t get any worse than this (clinicals were still fun) with the low quality of non-leaning that was going on but … holy horse poopy … hold the phone …. 5th quarter has blown it all out of the park. AHHHHHHH, I just want to get this program over with!