First Day of Nursing School

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!