Monday was a holiday (Columbus Day..more like a fall "study break") but I still had a paper due. I had to email it to my professor for my Health Care Delivery Systems class. It was supposed to be my critique of Managed Care but I focused basically on the negative aspects of HMO's. It was actually really interesting to learn about and kind of an eye opener. Pretty much what I got out of that is that I have been really lucky in my fairly sheltered life. I have a lot to be thankful for in that I can even just get basic health care and that I'm healthy! Anyway...
Tuesday was my big Nursing 050 midterm exam. That is my huge 7 credit class where we learn all the fundamentals of nursing in a whopping one semester (traditional nursing students do it in 3). Needless to say there is a LOT of material already and it was pretty overwhelming trying to sit down and study all of it. Luckily it went well and I do already know that I got B on the test. Huge relief! I've come to terms with the fact that people don't get a whole lot of A's here...
Wednesday was an exciting day because it was the first time my clinical group went to our hospital wing! We got to meet some people over there that we will be shadowing and had a tour of 4 Bles, our wing at Georgetown University Hospital. We were all excited to see it, but also pretty distracted because we knew in a few short hours we would return back to the lab room to take our head-to-toe assessment practical exam! We had to perform a full head-to-toe patient assessment in under 30 minutes (kind of hard when you don't know exactly what you're doing!) in front of our clinical instructor for a big percentage of our lab grade. Luckily my instructor is the sweetest lady ever and was really helpful. It ended up being less of a big deal than we had all thought and everyone actually did really well! It was fun too because we got to do them in these private lab rooms that look exactly like a real exam room.
Finally yesterday I had two midterms in my "elective" classes. Theology and Environmental Ethics. Yikes! It's hard to focus much on those because of how busy we all are with the REAL reason we are actually here..to learn how to be nurses..Not philosophers and theists! It's alright though, because all through my time at Oregon I got to be pretty pro at these short essay type exams and pretending I understood everything..hahaha. Compared to my science classes here these tests were a piece of cake and all I regret is the unreal cramping in my hand from having to write so much for both.
And there's my week! And ok, that wasn't such a quick run through sorry. It's finally done though and I couldn't be more relieved. Lin, I finally actually went running yesterday because I finished my 10 song playlist haha. And today I am going to go on a little adventure while all my friends are in labs and classes! I think I will go shopping at the Crystal City mall then take the metro down to Alexandria to see Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist to support the boy who my son (if I have one) WILL be exactly similar to....
Love him. If Nadal is your "son" Mom, then Michael Cera is mine. Although that's a bit creepy because we are probably near the same age. It's ok you all know what I mean.
Anyway thanks for sticking with me during this very long post. I guess I just had a lot of recap to cover...How many dot dot dots did I use in this thing??
