5 posts tagged “finals”

I passed Integrated Skills yesterday. Basically, you're given a scenario and you have 15 minutes to prepare (look up your drugs, make some notes, etc.). Then you go into the room where the mannequin is set up and do your thing.

My scenario was a man with Prostate Cancer who had a TURP the day before. He was on continuous bladder irrigation (CBI) and had dime size blood clots in the tubing with no urine outflow.

This tells me that he needs manual irrigation (which he had orders for). Crap. I had heard that we wouldn't have to do open irrigation since we didn't have much instruction on it, so that was something at least.

Except it wasn't true.

I did closed irrigation and the instructor says "It wasn't successful. Now what?" I said that I would do it again. "Okay, still didn't work. Now what?" Sigh... "I would get an order for open irrigation." "You got it. Go ahead."

Ah, shit.

I actually did the procedure perfectly. I also had to do a central line dressing change and give medications. The instructor told me I got a 100% (although it's really pass/fail). I hit all the points they wanted me to. Woohoo!

Today was my final. I did some studying with Laura Tuesday night and then yesterday I went over and studied with her and 3 other people. Then I came home and reviewed the power points online. I felt well prepared.

The good news is I got a 91% on my final!
The bad news is I got a 90% for my class participation grade which gives me a final average of 89.45. I hope my teacher rounds up or something because I REALLY WANT THE 'A', DAMMIT! I'm going to be pissed if I get a B.

Either way though, I am done for almost 4 months! And there was a sign-up sheet posted to select your clinical site for next semester so Laura and I signed up for the same one (Palms West, days. Not that close to my house, but I'd rather that than St. Mary's.)

Tonight is the Dolphins Banquet which would be more exciting if I didn't have to work tomorrow. Ah well...

I went to Laura's house last night to study and got home at 5am. Yes, that's right. And somehow I still couldn't get to sleep until 6. My alarm goes off at 7, at which point I left a message on my boss's voicemail asking if she could do without me. I left her my cell and told her to call me if she really needed me to come in, and she didn't. I slept until 12:30 or so and have been studying off and on all day. I put in a lot of good work last night, but at this point my brain has just checked out. I'm too tired to retain anything at this point.

I'll probably still forced some more pharm down my throat later and then rejoice tomorrow when THIS CRAP IS BEHIND ME.

(PS I'm going to Disneyworld with Alex and Taylor sometime in the next couple weeks! Yay!)

You know, I had this whole blog post planned out where I told you my sorry grade, but rationalized it by saying that at least I passed the class.

Maybe I'll use that one tomorrow.

Because today, I got an 87% on my Nursing Lecture final!  Awoohoo!

What's especially nice about that is I only studied Sunday night and then yesterday for it because I've been so focused on studying for Pharm.

Laura's Columbian coffee FTW! I've always been able to drink coffee right before bed. Not so with this stuff. It is crack in a cup.

I got an 87%!

Who cares that I am subsisting on a diet of coffee and cigarettes? Who cares that I am getting 5 hours of sleep a night and am so exhausted I can barely move?

87!

Tomorrow morning is my nursing lecture final. I am somewhat comfortable in my knowledge for it. Laura and I studied last night, today, and tonight. We listened to her lecture tapes for Fluids and Electrolytes. I'm not going to stress over it. Either I know it or I don't, and I'd have to do spectacularly bad to fail the class, and that's all I really care about at this point.

Thursday I have my HESI exam, so today I did all the case study modules. It helped me prepare for my final and that's all the prep I'll be doing for HESI.

Now Pharm. I've been using a 'Review for the Final Exam' that was posted on WebCT since Friday. TODAY someone posts on the discussion board how they've been using it also. My PROFESSOR replies, "Oh, I thought I took that down. It's from last semester" and removes it from the site. So. Have I been using a review blueprint that is outdated and is going to fuck me in the ASS because the test will have different content? I guess I'll find out Thursday, since my teacher isn't in any sort of fucking HURRY to respond to the handful of us FREAKING THE FUCK OUT about this whole thing. I hate this teacher with the fire of a thousand suns.

That is all.

I procrastinate so much I procrastinated writing this entry.

The semester is almost over. I am very stressed, although not as bad as I was this time last week.

Last Thursday I got a 72 on my Pharm test, bringing my test average to 79. I have to have a 75% to pass. I emailed my teacher asking for help or advice and she said she would review my test and get back to me. Well, now it's WEDNESDAY and my next test is TOMORROW so when exactly was she planning on getting back to me? I freaked out for about an hour after that test. I cannot fail that class. It will set me back an entire semester. Come to find out though, I am the only sucker in the class not using the book for the online test.

I had a shitload of stuff to get checked off on in skills lab, but I got all of that done on Saturday except catheters, which I did on Monday. So I am all done with skills lab. That was a HUGE weight off of my shoulders.

I also had to meet with my mentor to get them to sign off on some form we have to complete part of every semester. Basically we have to give them our unofficial transcript and they make sure we are where we need to be credit-wise. I did that yesterday after my clinical final evaluation (went fine, done with that class too!) and she said she wasn't sure that my art history class counts for my humanities credit. Oh, it better. I didn't sit through that suck ass class for nothing.

So now all I have to stress over is my finals next week. And now I think I have to end this here, because the screen looks a bit swirly and I'm afraid that means I have a migraine coming on.