If you can read, and you read the title....than yeah, it's a no brainer, I'm totally excited because we only have one week of school left!!! This past week has been busy, but manageable as everything starts to wrap up. I got the grade back from my capstone paper on Wednesday and am quite happy with that score. We also took a test called the HESI. It is a practice NCLEX test (the test you have to pass to get your nursing license) and it is suppose to help you identify the areas that you need to practice in...I didn't do too bad, but not as well I was hoping for either. Apparently I rock at community health, pediatric, and psychiatric questions and suck with labor and delivery and medications.
I have one more 12 hour shift to do with my preceptor this weekend in the PICU and then I will be all done with getting my 108.5 professional practicum rotation hours.
This coming week is going to be a busy one. Tuesday we have to do a group presentation....not looking forward to this at all. Wednesday we have our last full day of class. Thursday will be spent studying, and Friday we have our final exam. Then Saturday we have our nursing pinning ceremony meaning that we graduated from GVSU's nursing program! Lots to look forward to!
Friday, July 29, 2011
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Capstoning
So I'm going to make this short and sweet because I got to get back to working on my capstone paper. My leadership clinical has been going very well. I have been spending more time in the PICU (pediatric intensive care unit) as they have been quite busy, so we aren't getting pulled to other units quite so much. I have been able to get to see some pretty cool stuff. Theory class has been pretty boring as we talk about common sense stuff... change, conflict management, health economics, complexity.
Anyway my life this past week and half has been composed of working on this capstone paper if I am not in class, in clinical, or working (besides a little vacation break over the fourth of July which was well deserved). The paper is due on Wednesday and has been consuming my life. Dishes are getting piled up and clothes (well lets just say I find them everywhere). And stacks of paper are taking over the floor.
This capstone paper is the last paper that we have to write for nusring school and is sort of like the last final big project. We had to pick a topic from Health People 2020 (if you don't know what that is I encourage you to google it, and find out!) to write about. I picked sleep health related to adolescents. There are certain things that we have to address in our paper that require a lot of research which leads to a lot reading and research articles which then, if appropriate, are put into the paper. So yeah it is a big task and a significant part of our grade. Right now for the most part I have the majority of if written and have to do the editing and all that type of stuff. I hope you enjoy the pictures! (okay so the picture uploader isn't working...check back and I'll try again later)
Anyway my life this past week and half has been composed of working on this capstone paper if I am not in class, in clinical, or working (besides a little vacation break over the fourth of July which was well deserved). The paper is due on Wednesday and has been consuming my life. Dishes are getting piled up and clothes (well lets just say I find them everywhere). And stacks of paper are taking over the floor.
This capstone paper is the last paper that we have to write for nusring school and is sort of like the last final big project. We had to pick a topic from Health People 2020 (if you don't know what that is I encourage you to google it, and find out!) to write about. I picked sleep health related to adolescents. There are certain things that we have to address in our paper that require a lot of research which leads to a lot reading and research articles which then, if appropriate, are put into the paper. So yeah it is a big task and a significant part of our grade. Right now for the most part I have the majority of if written and have to do the editing and all that type of stuff. I hope you enjoy the pictures! (okay so the picture uploader isn't working...check back and I'll try again later)
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