I fucked up. And I'm an idiot.
Not the midterms. 3 down and 1 to go. So far:
Pharmacology: 82 out of 91, with 16 open questions ungraded, and a 10% bonus for awesomesauce drugcards. I may get high nineties there, wonder what will happen if I break a hundred?
Health assesment lab: 47 out of 48, 16 points available on charting as yet ungraded. Minimum of 77%.
Health theory: 93.5, unless they yank one badly worded question..then it may go up to 95.
To go: another health class.
What I fucked up on? Just most of my social life. And at this point I don't know how to fix it, or even if I should be the one to fix it. I may well end up doing it mind you as i'm in the minority and part of it is my fault. I just don't know where to even start.
And in the mean time, insomnia is being wicked and i'm on nine hours of sleep over three nights.
Showing posts with label semester 2. Show all posts
Showing posts with label semester 2. Show all posts
Wednesday, 15 February 2012
Sunday, 12 February 2012
midterms
one more week of midterms. Pharmacology on monday. Both health assessment classes on wednesday, i think. Turns out on campus students are doing one of htem on tuesday and the instructor emailed everyone into a panic by saying we did as well. They're busy sorting it. I hope that its wed as I haven't got stuff ready for tues.Our practical is on wed. We're out on distance campus on wed. It makes sense for it to be on wed.
and there is a health and the individual one on friday
and in the mean time, i'm not doing well with the stress and I think I've pissed off everyone who gives a damn. I'm just done. I want to hide in a hobbit hole.
I don't know if its SAD, if i'm getting a case of depression (did a clinical depression test at the councilling services and I score in the 'could use meds' category. Talked to the gal there and we agreed to give it two weeks as i'm off sleep deprivation re the stupid infecting tooth that could be influencing it). I'm starting to think I need them. Nurse heal thyself? I'm just not sure i can afford meds right now. I'm taking st john wort
And right now i should get off here and finish studying. 10.45 pm and i have a mere 40 pages to go. I can do that. Suspect i've pissed my best mate here off as she's online, my messages aren't bouncing and she's not responding. Hell, I"ll probably piss everyone else i talk to off as well.
have a youtube clip, to make up for the whinging
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EceOhfqYQhw
and there is a health and the individual one on friday
and in the mean time, i'm not doing well with the stress and I think I've pissed off everyone who gives a damn. I'm just done. I want to hide in a hobbit hole.
I don't know if its SAD, if i'm getting a case of depression (did a clinical depression test at the councilling services and I score in the 'could use meds' category. Talked to the gal there and we agreed to give it two weeks as i'm off sleep deprivation re the stupid infecting tooth that could be influencing it). I'm starting to think I need them. Nurse heal thyself? I'm just not sure i can afford meds right now. I'm taking st john wort
And right now i should get off here and finish studying. 10.45 pm and i have a mere 40 pages to go. I can do that. Suspect i've pissed my best mate here off as she's online, my messages aren't bouncing and she's not responding. Hell, I"ll probably piss everyone else i talk to off as well.
have a youtube clip, to make up for the whinging
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EceOhfqYQhw
Wednesday, 8 February 2012
midterms are upon us
With a vengeance! They are! They're doing 2/3rds of the readings in the first half of the semester so we can go into clinical actually knowing stuff.
the good: Well, pharmacology math, I passed with a 98. I can't believe the question i got wrong, the first one, and a simple conversion I got right in my calculations next to it..and then tickied the wrong one.
Then there's the first few theory midterms, which I've done pretty well on (can't recall exact marks, but nothing under 85 out of 100) and today was practical skill test - I lost out at least 20 out of 100 on forgetting to verbalise that I knew what my doctors order was despite the fact I did, clearly, and told my dummy all about why I was doing it. I also managed to break sterile field once. We only got one lab to learn that skill earlier this week. I'm not horribly horribly upset, as I know it was literally a slip of the hand. We worked with foreceps once, yes, the odd item is going to drop sometimes until I've practiced it some more. Still, I passed.
Now in the mean time, I have four more midterms next week. One is practical, and that would be a relatively doable one, I deem. Three theory. I'll pass, the only question is what kind of mark. I'm going to have to put my nose to the grindstone.
The thing that vexes me though, is pharmacology. Not the readings, I don't mind those though they are american based -and I do have to question the amount we have to learn about a different countries legal system - and we're in Canada. No, its the drug cards.
You can buy perfectly good drug cards. You can read them and learn them before you go in. no, they want something like 96 drug cards for midterms, and again as many for finals. Its worth 15% of our grades, so I can't afford to give it up.
But typing that much, and there is a good bit of data on one drug card, really isnt' learning it. You type and its straight data entry. Or I guess most of my classmates are writing but I find it faster to type, and I manipulate word well. Besides this way I can read 'em!
Still, I can't give up the marks. But this strikes me as several days of work I can better spend studying the material. Its makework. I'm going to end up playing with craft paper and glitter glue again.
An example of one of the cards:
For: hypertension, angina pectoris, prevent/treat
MI's, management heart failure
Still, I guess at least its legible?
the good: Well, pharmacology math, I passed with a 98. I can't believe the question i got wrong, the first one, and a simple conversion I got right in my calculations next to it..and then tickied the wrong one.
Then there's the first few theory midterms, which I've done pretty well on (can't recall exact marks, but nothing under 85 out of 100) and today was practical skill test - I lost out at least 20 out of 100 on forgetting to verbalise that I knew what my doctors order was despite the fact I did, clearly, and told my dummy all about why I was doing it. I also managed to break sterile field once. We only got one lab to learn that skill earlier this week. I'm not horribly horribly upset, as I know it was literally a slip of the hand. We worked with foreceps once, yes, the odd item is going to drop sometimes until I've practiced it some more. Still, I passed.
Now in the mean time, I have four more midterms next week. One is practical, and that would be a relatively doable one, I deem. Three theory. I'll pass, the only question is what kind of mark. I'm going to have to put my nose to the grindstone.
The thing that vexes me though, is pharmacology. Not the readings, I don't mind those though they are american based -and I do have to question the amount we have to learn about a different countries legal system - and we're in Canada. No, its the drug cards.
You can buy perfectly good drug cards. You can read them and learn them before you go in. no, they want something like 96 drug cards for midterms, and again as many for finals. Its worth 15% of our grades, so I can't afford to give it up.
But typing that much, and there is a good bit of data on one drug card, really isnt' learning it. You type and its straight data entry. Or I guess most of my classmates are writing but I find it faster to type, and I manipulate word well. Besides this way I can read 'em!
Still, I can't give up the marks. But this strikes me as several days of work I can better spend studying the material. Its makework. I'm going to end up playing with craft paper and glitter glue again.
An example of one of the cards:
Metoprolol
aka Lopresor
Contra:
uncompensated CHF, pulmonary edema, cardiogenic shock, bradycardia
Drug Class: beta blocker,
antianginals, antihypertensive Preg Cat C
|
Route:
PO
Adult
|
Angina/hypertension: 25-100 mg qd/BID, up to 450mg
qd
MI: 25-50mg q 6 hr/48 hr then 100mg qd 3months |
|
|
Heart failure: 12.5-25mg qd, doubling/2 wks to 200
mg
|
Check: BP, ECG, HR, I&O,
lab tests, freq/character of angina
Side effects:
BRADYCARDIA, CHF, PULMONARY EDEMA, erectile dysfunction, fatigue,
weakness
Teaching: - take as
directed, do not miss
- check pulse, bp
biweekly
- orthostatic
hypertension and drowsiness may occur
Still, I guess at least its legible?
Sunday, 22 January 2012
Semester 2, week 3
Well, we've had our first two out of fourteen weeks. No clinical yet, that comes after they pump our brains full of more stuff. And I already have two midterms in week 3 and 4. And a math exam that counts as a midterm. We barely got started! and as I started late..well..i'm still 2 days behind but I'm working on it.
Went to a medieval event yesterday and was there late, which didn't help matters with the brain, as usually i'm good at math and nursing math is not an exception. Its 'rithmetic. I do a lot of that without scratch paper. Today however, I can't even divide 75 by 2. I suspect its that cold i'm coming down with. Cannot brain, have the dumb.
Still, we're getting into med administration. I'm not sure if I think its awesome or terrifying that by the end of the semester we'll be sticking needles into people. I have no issues with needles -stick away as far as I'm concerned - but sticking needles? that's a different ballgame. Suspect I'll be fine once I actually get to do it.
I"m doing one course less than most this semester because of the way I did anatomy and physiology last semester and I"m very glad for the head start. Its making things a lot easier.
Went to a medieval event yesterday and was there late, which didn't help matters with the brain, as usually i'm good at math and nursing math is not an exception. Its 'rithmetic. I do a lot of that without scratch paper. Today however, I can't even divide 75 by 2. I suspect its that cold i'm coming down with. Cannot brain, have the dumb.
Still, we're getting into med administration. I'm not sure if I think its awesome or terrifying that by the end of the semester we'll be sticking needles into people. I have no issues with needles -stick away as far as I'm concerned - but sticking needles? that's a different ballgame. Suspect I'll be fine once I actually get to do it.
I"m doing one course less than most this semester because of the way I did anatomy and physiology last semester and I"m very glad for the head start. Its making things a lot easier.
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