Yesterday I left my house around 7am and parked by 7:45am. Class didn't even start until 8:30am, so I was really early. I parked far away to get a little exercise in. I get to the building and sit in an upper level class before realizing its the wrong class haha... Still before class starts though. I grab a seat in the front row only because I saw the girl I was talking to at our orientation.
We were greeted by the dean who gave us a little pep talk..then our two instructors came in, introduced themselves and gave us their personal phone numbers. I felt a sense of trust with them already because only a select few professors had done that in the past.
The first few hours were spent going over the syllabus, and the course itself as well as clinicals. An hour into class, I started missing my baby like crazy. It was my first time leaving her with someone who wasn't family :( but I was told she did good. I did call and check on her once and texted the babysitter once. I hate to hover but that's my baby girl.
Anyway, our instructor taught from chapters 1,2,4 and 5. I wish I could've had the reading assignments a week before hand to try to get in as much reading as possible. I only got halfway through the first chapter before class an didn't retain much. So not only do we have to read those chapters for yesterday's class, we also have to read 2 or 3 chapters for Monday's class as well.. All in about 3 and a half days. They weren't lying when they said there's a load of reading in nursing school. I've never liked to read tiny print textbooks but it has to be read. I tried taking notes as I go but I seem to write everything only paraphrasing the content. I don't know how to pull the most important parts, so I printed the instructors notes and just started adding onto hers. That's a better system. I also started doing the questions in the back of the chapter and reading the rationales to put everything into perspective.
I've been reading since 9am... I'm sleepy now and as you can tell, I'm a slow reader and took many breaks to tend to my beautiful. Signing out to sleep for a few hours before waking up to do it all over again. Ha!
Friday, August 24, 2012
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
The Day Before First Class
Tomorrow I start my first nursing class YAYYYYYY for Fundamentals Ha!
So in the spare time I had today, I tried to read the entire first chapter... I'm only half way through. I would've been more excited to read if only my instructor posted our syllabus online. I'm guessing we're going to get a print out in class tomorrow. And the first chapter focuses on nursing history, the education required to become a nurse, changes being made in the nursing professional degrees etc. I'm telling my mom this morning like I started reading, but I don't think we're gonna be tested on the history of nursing. She's like well you need to know the history, who's the first ever nurse? She tells me Florence Nightingale which I had already knew. I'm just thinking to myself, she's been a nurse 35+ years, you remember that? Ha. So I kept on reading throughout the day... AND taking notes. I'm trying to get a good start on things because I am a procrastinator.
Besides that, I spent my day trying to clean house and arrange things for the babysitter. Laundry is calling my name.. blah. Luckily I still have this weekend to get things in order before the real stuff starts.
Last night I took my fiance and my baby out to eat. I was starting to get too overwhelmed, scared and anxious. I just wanted to not think about school and enjoy the little time I have left to just freeload.
A great tip I got from someone on allnurses was to organize the binder by weeks. I have a major issue with organization, and I'm always losing things, so I'm hoping this will work out well for me. I'm going to also try the same thing for my lab binder. On the back of my binder is my acceptance letter and the front are pictures of my baby.. my motivator..!!
On another note, still don't know how to get my blog out there.. hmm.. oh well, it will be neat to go back and read my experiences in nursing school and see how much I grow.
So in the spare time I had today, I tried to read the entire first chapter... I'm only half way through. I would've been more excited to read if only my instructor posted our syllabus online. I'm guessing we're going to get a print out in class tomorrow. And the first chapter focuses on nursing history, the education required to become a nurse, changes being made in the nursing professional degrees etc. I'm telling my mom this morning like I started reading, but I don't think we're gonna be tested on the history of nursing. She's like well you need to know the history, who's the first ever nurse? She tells me Florence Nightingale which I had already knew. I'm just thinking to myself, she's been a nurse 35+ years, you remember that? Ha. So I kept on reading throughout the day... AND taking notes. I'm trying to get a good start on things because I am a procrastinator.
Besides that, I spent my day trying to clean house and arrange things for the babysitter. Laundry is calling my name.. blah. Luckily I still have this weekend to get things in order before the real stuff starts.
Last night I took my fiance and my baby out to eat. I was starting to get too overwhelmed, scared and anxious. I just wanted to not think about school and enjoy the little time I have left to just freeload.
A great tip I got from someone on allnurses was to organize the binder by weeks. I have a major issue with organization, and I'm always losing things, so I'm hoping this will work out well for me. I'm going to also try the same thing for my lab binder. On the back of my binder is my acceptance letter and the front are pictures of my baby.. my motivator..!!
On another note, still don't know how to get my blog out there.. hmm.. oh well, it will be neat to go back and read my experiences in nursing school and see how much I grow.
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