Week 2

We opened the semester with a math test. Turns out that we needed to pass the test in order to pass meds to patients this week. Makes sense… if we had jacked up our test we have no business calculating the pills that will go into a patient. The next two days are in the [...]

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Week 1

The first week of nursing school was pretty low-key.  On the first day, I arrived early for a meeting with the Orientation Club.  I was selected along with several other students to see a small group of incoming students through their first semester of school.  The hope is that if we can form small communities [...]

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No, really… you know what sucks?

When your long anticipated wait for your Fall clinical schedule ends and you find out the ONLY student you never want to see again is assigned to the same group. FUCK MY LIFE. I can only hope she throws another one of her fits and demands to be moved. I will be my normal grateful [...]

Wimps.

You know, at least the miserable student lets me know where I stand by throwing a fit in front of everyone if we’re assigned the same group. Not so for fellow students. Yesterday they reacted in sympathy to the miserable student for having to spend all of an hour with me, yet today they are [...]

You know what sucks?

Finally finding yourself in the program that will help get you to your final goal only to have to share the experience with a person so hateful it sucks any pleasure you might have in it. I’ve dealt with abrasive people in my life, but who hasn’t?  What I’ve never dealt with is a person [...]