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[21 Sep 2009|12:47pm] |
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whatever. this repetitive shit is getting really old. let's move on now.
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[04 Sep 2009|01:35pm] |
i am just going to bitch in this thing instead of boring people in person with my problems about school and how it is ruining my social life.
alright, i have 12 hour clincials on saturday...7-7. BEAUTIFUL. There goes my fun fridays. So on top of that, I 'technically' get friday off...but i still have to go into UMC to get my patients information for my saturday clinical. so today, i get a call from a student stating we have to meet at 5 pm at UMC to get our patient. see, that late time bothers me because i had plans to go out tonight for a little, and now, that may not happen as planned because i have to do all my research and bullshit on my patient tonight before tomorrow morning at 7 am. and then, i get an email from my school yesterday as i am at work, "your parking permits are here to be picked up for labs on tuesday. if you do not get them today or tomorrow (friday) you will be towed on tuesday for trespassing". CUTE CUTE CUTE FUCKING CUTE. so now, i have to go to my school's campus across town, pick up the stupid permit and then drive my happy ass to the other side of town to go to UMC to get my stupid kid for tomorrow. BEAUTIFUL.
theeeeen i get an email from my professor bitching about how all the students misunderstood her. let me give you a background of what happened this last week. so she brings up how we have a choice to do these studymate things online (you make up 10 questions that everyone can see/use/practice studying on) or we could have weekly quizzes. so we of course chose the studymates. now, she made it sound like we had to do 10 questions before each exam and from those questions she would figure out our exams and study guide for the exam. i even asked her "so our questions can be made up from anything you lectured on for the upcoming exam?" and she says "yes". so the students and myself included, took that as we have to have 10 completed before each exam. that was not my professors intensions...she wants 10 questions made up before each lecture. now i know, if you are actually reading this bullshit, you are thinking "paige, that isnt even that bad...why are you bitching?" and the reason i am bitching is because if you think about it...we probably have about 5-6 lectures (maybe even more, i am not sure because i procrastinate and dont look ahead) and if all 30 something students do 10 questions each for each lecture that makes up a total of about 300 questions for each lecture...and if we have about 5-6 lectures total that would be what, about 1500 questions to "study" with for each exam. SORRY there is no damn way i am going to do over 1000 practice questions for each exam to study. so i see this as a damn waste of time...but i'll take this over actually studying for a quiz every week/every class because i dont HAVE to use the stupid studymate to actually study. my point is, common sense states that this whole plan of the studymate is not going to work and will not be an effective tool to use because it will be too overwhelming to try and use before the exam.
basically, i am counting down until winter break. this schedule for school is just bullshit in itself...i got to school mon-wed., work thursday from 7am-730pm, pick up my patient friday and do the stupid research on the kid, go to clinical saturday 645 am-7pm and then i FINALLY get my sunday completely to myself...but guess what i will be doing that sunday...studying and homework. beautiful. i know i will eventually get my schedule down to where i can procrastinate and still maintain a B average, but daaaaamn, can't a sister get a break?
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[24 Aug 2009|10:05am] |
Another semester begins today. 3 more to go. Tell me why I am starting to second guess my decisions? Nursing just has not been a positive experience for me yet and I am starting to pray I did not make the wrong choice about what I want to do with my life. I think a lot of it has to do with being on a med/surg floor. I really hate med/surg. I am never excited to go to work, which is the complete opposite of what I was expecting. The only thing I am ever excited for is pay day. Please tell me I am not already jaded.
Things should be different this semester though. I will be working on a pediatric floor. I believe this is going to either make or break me. I already am on the fence about working with children. It will be a learning experience nonetheless, but I hope I at least ENJOY the learning experience.
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[24 Jul 2009|09:35pm] |
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this may be a good thing, or it could be the complete opposite. let's hope this all works out; the superficial layer of it and also the deeper/hidden layer of it.
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[13 May 2009|01:55pm] |
k so my mom is doing taxes so she needed an estimate on how much my school tuition and books costed for UNLV and NSC during 2008...man what a big reality check.
Total Tuition from Spring '08-Fall '08:
about $6000
Total Books from Spring '08-Fall '08:
about $1400
Then 1st semester nursing school tuition:
$1885
Books for 1st semester nursing school:
about $1000
I dont even want to imagine what that shit would be if I were out of state.
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[23 Apr 2009|03:24pm] |
2 weeks of school left after tomorrow.
thank god.
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[05 Apr 2009|05:12pm] |
hi, you won't be able to handle it. good luck. =]
started my 12 hour shifts. hate iiiit but love having fridays off. i really dont like the floor i am on. i am so ready to move on and get involved with more intense situations. i am more of a 'technical/let me save your life person', not a 'can i give you a backrub' person. and hi, i really hate charting. oh my god.
5 more weeks until summer break.
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[19 Mar 2009|01:58pm] |
maaaan spring break is almost over. i can't believe it's already thursday. whomp whomp whooomp.
i began studying today. i realized that i should have started this shit last week. oh well. only like 20 chapters to go. wooo paaarty.
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[11 Mar 2009|08:29am] |
spring break needs to be here already. i am so in need of a break. i am getting tired of repeating everything every week. i need a change up or something. i am so tired of dealing with hip and knee replacements and abdominal pain...jesus. i want to be on a floor that is always changing. which is why i am doing ER, but i won't be able to experience that until i graduate. i finally passed off on oral and injection medications. i cannot wait to give someone a shot.
i am doing my pass off on physical assessments today. pretty much, i know how to give you a complete head-to-toe physical, minus the whole gyno/bend over and cough shit.
spring break '09. PAAAARTY.
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[22 Feb 2009|04:20pm] |
so friday i got to do more interesting stuff at the hosptial instead of doing bed baths, breakfast drop off and pick up and bed changes. my patient got discharged so i was able to go watch some endoscopies, colonoscopies, and a cardiac catheterization on a patient who came into the ER for a heart attack. I got to see the atery and what it looked like being blocked and then i got to watch the doctor open the artery up (on the monitor). NEEEAT huh?
This is the stuff i saw:
This is the small intestine and hwat it looks like on the inside =]
this is the colon and what happens with diverticulosis which causes holes in the colon and intestines. If you have diverticulosis you are not allowed to eat popcorn, seeds, peanuts or corn because they can get stuck in the holes...i thought that was kind of interesting.
heart cath
fun stuff, huh? =]
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[19 Feb 2009|01:48pm] |
clincials are getting better minus that my instructor is a demon. maybe if i kissed her ass like the other students she wouldnt be such a bitch to me all the time.
the best part is that every time she flips out and assumes i am doing something wrong, i prove her ass wrong and she shuts up and ends up just walking away from me because she looks like an idiot.
ginette: "WHY ARE YOU STANDING HERE! YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO TAKE REPORTS WITH THE NURSE FOR EVERY PATIENT...NOT JUST YOURS!"
me and jenna: "uhm hi, our nurse left to go do a medication stat ordered by the doctor...she isn't doing the reports right now"
ginette: "oh" :walks away:
so like 5 minutes later she comes back over to us while we are in the middle of reports and this was the conversation:
ginette: "i want you to auscultate the lungs and abdomen of your patients"
jenna and me: "okay, we are still in the middle of reports, we will do it when we finish"
ginette: "you don't have to do all the reports...we are going to do this instead"
can anyone spot the inconsistency with that? yeaaaah, me too.
my favorite part was at our 'meeting' today before we left, and i quote "i want all of you to ask me questions...i won't get mad. i don't want you to be scared to ask me anything because then you won't be able to learn."
really ginette? because today when jenna and i were trying to talk to you about auscultating the lungs you flipped out because we asked how we would word our findings in the documentation.
me: "how would i word my documentation on the chart if the patient has crackles in thier lung sounds?"
ginette: "IF YOU DONT KNOW WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR THEN WHAT IS THE POINT OF DOING IT?!?"
me: "I know what i am looking for...I just don't know the proper wording and the proper terminology for the documentation...my question was how to document it"
ginette: :walks away:
it gets annoying always having someone breathing down your neck and bitching at you because they are ASSUMING you aren't doing your job. more than likely if i am standing around not doing anything it is because i just got done being with my patient, my patient is eating, or my nurse is handling something and i am waiting for her to get back. i am getting tired of all my instructors contradicting themselves. "rule #1...NEVER EVER EVER assume!!!!" yeah, oookay.
i need to bitch some way, so i am using LJ...i can't even write my opinions and feelings in my 'reflective' journal for clinicals (which is the point of having the stupid reflective journal) because i am told my feelings are 'WRONG!' by ginette. hahahahaha
im counting down to spring break.
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[06 Feb 2009|01:19pm] |
i am about to lose it.
i don't think i can do this.
okay correction...i know i can do this but i don't think i want to.
i just wish i could snap my fingers and know everything so i didn't have to deal with the whole 'process of learning'. i hate the transition of ignorance/being naive to actual knowledge and practice of knowledge.
i guess i just get frustrated...when i ask a damn question, can you just listen to my full question and give me the correct answer instead of cutting me off and giving me a completely different answer because you didn't let me finish my sentence? basically, if you shut the fuck up and listen to me, i won't have to keep bothering you and asking you the same questions over and over again because i still haven't received the correct answer.
on top of that, i am beginning to realize how much people are neglected in the hospital, especially those that NEED help. i am going to lose it. i have cried every day that i have been in the hospital so far just from dealing with all this stupid bullshit that shouldn't even be happening in the first place and the lack of care i have been seeing for these patients.
i hate it because i do not have much say in what is being done. i can't just sit there and correct nurses and CNAs. they are going to look at me like i am stupid because i am a student and they have 'been doing this for years' and they have their license to do it. I HATE IT because i know i can do some of their jobs better than they can...especially when it comes to the CNAs because they pretty much do the same shit i am doing and learning how to do. don't get pissed off at me because i am trying to assess the patient before i make them turn over because i know they have a fractured hip/pelvis and i know they shouldnt be turning on the side they just had surgery on or that they havent EVEN HAD surgery on yet. i can't handle hearing 'oh my god you are hurting me, please stop hurting me, please stop, oh my god, PLEASE STOP YOU ARE HURTING ME SO MUCH, WHY ARE YOU TRYING TO HURT ME???!', being screamed from a 91 year old woman with a fractured pelvis that has not been treated yet because she can't go through surgery because of her age, when i know the pain could be prevented by doing it the correct way. oh that's right CNA, you didn't know she had a fractured pelvis that hasn't been treated because you didn't take the time to look up her information and you don't really care, you are just trying to do your job. and i qoute 'mama, we aren't hurting you...' even though she is SCREAMING the whole time. 'mama, we aren't hurting you' even though she is placing pressure on the fracture with her hand to support herself while trying to perform the bedbath. the other students in my class heard her screaming from down the hall while we were in the room. it breaks my heart. this is why the med-surg floor is not the floor i am cut out to work on. i can't handle it.
i have decided that i never want to become a jaded nurse. i never want to just do my job because i have to. i want to do my job because i want to and that i enjoy helping people. isn't that the whole point of becoming a nurse?
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[22 Jan 2009|02:24pm] |
Why won't you come save me?
I need to stop expecting people to be there for me and instead, just have me be there for myself.
I am a 'big girl' and i can handle my own situations and problems just fine without the need of someone holding my hand through the process; but, having someone by my side and trying to be my superman is comforting.
My dad might have to have heart surgery.
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[20 Jan 2009|03:07pm] |
first day of school was today. i was over 15 minutes late to both of my classes...i don't know what the hell happened there. oh well, it was the first day anyway.
i think i'll be able to handle all of it, because i finally am taking classes i actually am interested in. it still is a tremendous amount of reading and studying. i also have to hang out with an old person 3 times and record their medical history and stuff. that will be a little awkward. 'hey, i am supposed to find out what is wrong with you, even though you are not in a hospital and you have no current health problems at the moment'.
pretty much the most intense thing i will be learning this semester will be how to put in a catheter, do feeding tubes, i think shots and medications. the beginning will be just bitch work, but i dont care because i will finally be in a hospital doing it and interacting with patients. i am excited.
the only thing i dread is losing my social life and having the freedom to go out whenever i please. i have to grow up sometime though.
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[17 Dec 2008|01:09pm] |
i am beginning to countdown to my first day of nursing school. 34 days. =]
i got my scrubs in the mail already.
i feel important just wearing them.
i just need to stay positive.
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[06 Dec 2008|05:28pm] |
So I am in communications 101...and our last class is a group presentation on whatever we choose. So since I already have a powerpoint done on birth control methods, we decided that would be the topic we covered. Now one of the girls (still a senior in high school and taking a few college classes) is in my group and the day we were supposed to meet in class to figure out what we were doing, she was "sick" and couldn't make it so I got an email from her that morning stating she wouldn't be there and anything that we decided to do she was okay with and just to tell her what to do. So when I got home after figuring out our topic...I sent her an email...Here are the emails I recieved back from her...
My 1st email to her:
"stacy and i decided we should do a presentation on birth control methods. i already have a powerpoint on it so all we need to handle is what we plan on saying. i will send you the powerpoint i have, but i do plan on tweaking it and making it for our actual presentation but this is just so you can get an idea of what we plan on doing. all you have to do is the introduction and conclusion. you will need to speak for 2 minutes, so however you decide to break your time up for the 2 is up to you. if there are any questions or problems just give me a call.
we plan on meeting on sunday at 7 pm to go over everything and make sure it all flows."
I had not received a response from her so I sent her and stacy another email:
"hi girls,
i am going to need you guys to email me what you plan on saying/the facts you want me to put up on the powerpoint so i can start putting it together
Alyssa, for the intro, since stacy and i are only covering a few birth control methods and not all of them, mention something about us just planning on talking about some of the more common and popular methods for birth control. =]
thanks girls,
Paige "
This is the response I got back from Alyssa:
"Hi Paige,
| I added four slides on our powerpoint presentations. I included contraceptive sponges, female condoms, vasectomies, and female sterilization. Attached is the powerpoint. Let me know what you think.
| Alyssa"
And this was my response to her stupidity:
"I appreciate your extra work, but it is not needed. stacy and i already know what we plan on covering. Maybe I was not clear enough on what we plan on doing. We are not going to cover everything that was on the powerpoint I sent you; I sent that to you so you could be able to make your introduction and conclusion from what you saw on the powerpoints. We plan on only talking about a few methods (IUD, the pill, the patch, condoms and maybe the nuva ring) because those are the more common methods used by people right now. With that being said, have you came up with your introduction and conclusion for the presentation?"
I tried my hardest to be nice. But I am about to rip my hair out because I am sure I was clear on what she needed to do.
On top of that, Stacy (the other girl in our group) calls me today saying she has been working 10 hours shifts and has not been able to do any work so she just wants to do it all tomorrow night...the night before our presentation. Now, I am all about procrastination...but that is a skill I have mastered and I am sure these girls are just stupid and really do not understand the concept of what we are supposed to be doing.
I am just frustrated because I hate group projects to begin with, the girls are making it way more complicated and I already have 80% of it done...
Thank god Monday is my last day.
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[19 Nov 2008|12:40pm] |
i just signed up for my classes for spring. =]
NURS 328- Health Assessment Across the Lifespan
NURS 329- Health Assessment Lab
NURS 330- Fundamentals of Human Care Nursing
NURS 338- Fundamental Nursing Skills Lab
NURS 339- Functions of Clinical Nursing-Practice (I will be at St. Rose Hospital getting my nurse Paige on)
NURS 331- Pathophysiology/Pharmacology I
Monday-Wednesday I will be on campus
Thursday-Friday I will be at the hospital
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[10 Nov 2008|07:22pm] |
this weekend was amazing.
VIP treatment is the best.
we cut everyone waiting in line like we were really important.
table with bottle service, ice, and juice for both nights.
and if that couldnt get any better, they played the music I LOVE...and not that techno/house music crap.
oh, and buying a witch's brew for sandra and me to share for $26 and then stealing another one off the bar when drunk ass people were not paying attention...amazing. i call that a 2 for 1 drunk special. =]
what this comes down to...i like clubs.
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[24 Sep 2008|03:46pm] |
I GOT ACCEPTED INTO NURSING SCHOOL!!!!
I am so excited, its hard for me to even comprehend what is going on. i just want to start it now, i don't want to wait until spring semester!
i start clinicals my first week of school, which i think i am the most excited about. i plan on buying a pink stethoscope. =] i already have been browsing online for one, and i think i found the one i want to get. i like the lime green one too, though. some of them are expensive...i saw some going for like $150-$200...
everything is beginning to fall into place and i am finally beginning to see the light at the end of this long tunnel.
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[08 Aug 2008|06:46pm] |
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no more summer school. =]
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