Because of how busy Morgan and I have been this past week, we have not had a chance to sit down and write out a blog post. Now that I am awake at 9:42 on a Saturday morning, i finally have found some time to write about what has been happening in our crazy busy lives.
Monday
Monday there was not much to talk about, other than it was our busy day of school. We had just gotten back from a nice weekend in Richmond, and here we found ourselves waking up for a 7:30 class! How can anyone enjoy that? Well we got there and sat in our Nursing 120 class and began to take notes over how to do Vital signs such as: Blood Pressure, Temperature, Pulse, and Respiration. This stuff was actually fun to learn how to do. We did not get finished going through the chapter on Vital Signs before our next class, so she said we would finish up next time. After a mandatory 10 minute break we sat down in the same room for our Nursing 110 class. Most of that class consisted of taking notes over.....you guessed it....vital signs, AGAIN! Ha ha, i am sure by now everyone is very clear on how to take vital signs. Which is a good thing because they are very important to do. The last thirty minutes our professor told us to practice taking manual blood pressures. That was fine, but we were really wanting to get outta school because we were tired of being there for almost four hours in one sitting.
After we escaped that class room, Morgan, Bailey, Sam, and I all decided to go back to Baileys place and get some homework or something done. After a quick stop at Chipotle for Sam, we arrived at Baileys place and had some lunch! I am really sorry to say, but Monday was a super hard day to accomplish anything. I do not know what it was, but the four of us were so distracted that we did not get any homework accomplished in the two hours we were at Baileys house...It really was a shame, but at least we did have a fun time with each other. (And, its not like any of the homework we had to get done was going to be due really soon. Just to point that out.) After our two hours of nothing, we headed back to the school for our last class of the day...Biology. Sadly we still could not focus. We took notes for the first half of the class, which is the really boring part, and then we did our lab. I do like doing the labs because recently we have been looking through the microscopes, and i have become a pro at focusing the lens on the cells we have been looking at..Monday we looked at simple squamous cells and stuff like that. It was really interesting, but did not really keep us focused. Anyways, that class got done and then we all headed back to our places for the evening. I can not really remember what Morgan and I did that night. Hmm, probably homework.
Tuesday
On Tuesday, Morgan and I had to go to our GEN class. This is a class that will only be five different time this semester. We have already been to two of them so far, so we only have three left. I believe GEN stands for General, but then again I really have no clue at all. This was a three hour class which was long, but soon it was done! After we got our of there, Morgan and I had to head over to the hospital to do our research for Clinical the next day. We use a program called Epic that gives us info on the patient we were assigned. So that took us about an hour or so each. Morgan and I were on separate floors of the hospital for this because we don't have the same clinical groups. I got done first and sat in one of the student lounge rooms while i waited for Morgan to get done. Shortly she arrived in the room and we sat there doing homework before we had to go to Ethics. We took two quizzes in Ethics. The first was a single quiz, and the second was the same quiz taken in groups of three people. Morgan and I both got 100% on the single and group quizzes. So far both of us have a 100% in the class which is great to think about! After that class we headed back to the apartment to start on our clinical packets we had to fill out based on the information we collected today. Sadly, i ended up learning that I mistakenly collected information on the wrong person! I had to drive back to the hospital at 8:00 and spend a whole hour looking up information AGAIN!! that was so frustrating. Around 9:30 i got back to the apartment and had to finish all my clinical stuff. I do not remember what time we got to bed, but i know that it was not the time i wanted to. I could not wait for Wednesday to be over! Then we would have a easy rest of the week.
Wednesday
I hate Wednesdays only because Morgan and I have to get up SUPER early. But half way through clinical, i am not tired anymore, and i really do love learning things during my clinical. The first hour we sat in a class room watching a video over vital signs, because that is what we would be practicing today in the hospital. From there we got into our clinical groups for our meetings. In mine we just went over out patient information and talked about how to do the clinical packet. Around 10 we headed over to the hospital. My partner and I got to our room and saw that our person was doing PT, so the four of us walked up and down the hallway and we got to learn a little bit about our patient. Sadly that's all i got to do that day because when my partner and I went to talk to our instructor, my partner blacked out and then couldn't see out of one eye, and got a huge migraine. I did get to take her blood pressure, but she had to sit down the rest of the time and I had to sit with her. My instructor gave me a paper that would help with information collecting for next Tuesday, so i spent the rest of the time filling that out. Around 12 we went to lunch, then met back with our group until 1:30. After that was over, i met up with Morgan and we headed back to the apartment before our Ethics class. I would tell you about Ethics, but there is nothing much to talk about. Now to the great part about Wednesday. Morgan and I were really craving Chipotle, so after Ethics we went and bought some for dinner. Right before Ethics class, Morgan and I stopped at the Red Box at CVS across the street and we rented the movie Soul Surfer. If you have not seen that movie, i recommend you do because it is a powerful movie. That night Morgan and I ate yummy Chipotle and watched a great movie. Perfect way to end a long busy day!
Thursday
On Thursday, Morgan and I got a head start on our Ethics homework. We got that all finished before we went to Biology at 1:30. I love getting my homework done ahead of time, because then I do not have to worry about it right before it is due. Such a great feeling. We went to boring Biology (ha ha) and we took notes again and did another lab using the microscopes. I do not have much to say about Biology because nothing happened in that class to tell about. After Bio, I really do not remember what Morgan and I did, other then homework...UNTIL....Bailey came over!! =) She came after she had dinner and stayed until almost 12! We had so much fun hanging out and talking and joking (about Halloween). We were trying to figure out if we needed candy at the apartment in case little kids came dressed up trick or treating. Then other thoughts came up about Halloween and it was just funny to talk about. We basically spent the evening laughing until our stomachs hurt. The three of us also played Sequence twice, and I officially am a loser and did not win at all. Bailey won the first round and Morgan won the second round. The evening ended well and Bailey left around 11:30 to head home. Morgan stayed up until 1:30 that night to finish reading the chapter 36 on nutrition in our nursing book. I went straight to bed.
Friday (the fun day)
Morgan and I woke up early to go to our Nursing 120 class where we finished taking notes over Vital Signs.That took 1 hour and 20 minutes. Nothing exciting happened in that class so I will move on to the interesting parts of the day. Morgan and I got back to the apartment and looked in the cabinets to find some lunch. Ugh...nothing. We recently went shopping for snack foods for packing lunch, but we did not have anything for dinner foods or hot meal foods. We needed to go shopping. We had not gone food shopping for more than two weeks. We made a list, and looked through our recipe book for things we wanted to make. After making our list, we headed to the closest Wal-mart and spent a wallet breaking amount of $74. Yikes!! For a college student that is hard!! I admit, i worry about money and so does Morgan, but we both know that God WILL provide for us in every single way. So after we both talked about that, we stopped worrying about it. (We still didn't get all the things on our list, so we will make a trip to aldi on Sunday). We headed back to the apartment just in time as Bailey got there. We planned for a Friday Study day. Bailey had just gotten back from the Urgent Care center at the hospital, and the doctor told her that she needed to drink a gallon of water each day until her infection went away. So all day she sat in the living room drinking glass after glass of water, and getting up every five minutes to use the bathroom. We found that funny, and so did she. Sam finally got to the apartment and we all got busy doing homework. We started with an online quiz for Nursing 120, and then after that Sam had to head home to see her Aunt. Since Morgan decided to be an overachiever, she had already read chapter 36. Bailey and I spend more than two hours reading the chapter, but we had a good method for doing it. I split the chapter into three sections. Seven pages in each section. After each section we read we would take a 15 minute break. This helped us so we would not get overwhelmed. During one of the breaks while Morgan was in the shower, Bailey and I had to walk over to CVS to go get her prescription. It was going to take 15 minutes, so Bailey and I decided we would finish reading and then come back for it. On our way out, we passes the rows of candy and chocolate. We needed it!! We got back to the apartment and finished up reading the chapter and doing the work sheets. Then the three of us walked back out into the 50 degree weather to go to CVS and pick up the prescription. Yes, we did buy chocolate before we left. But it was 2 for $3 so we really had to do it. And when they say 2 for 3, they mean it. No tax! So when we got back to the apartment, we began our Evolve case study that was apart of our homework. That was easy enough and now we had the rest of the night to do what ever we wanted to do! Morgan and I watched Survivor on CBS.com while Bailey Skyped with her cousin Evan. Morgan and i went in there after Survivor was over and Skyped with them =) he is a funny kid. By the time that was done, it was probably 12 already. Bailey and I started taking pictures, and then we played Rummy. I taught her how to play =) that was fun. By this time though, i was VERY tired. Bailey decided she would stay the night, so she slept on the couch. It was like 1 by the time we all went to bed. It was a very fun day. Today should be a great day too, especially because we have no homework that needs to be done.
This was a long entry, it is now 11:05 and i have been sitting her a long time. i don't really want to spell check right now, but i will go back and do it later I PROMISE!! i just need a break right now, and i know everyone is really wanting to hear what we have been up to!
Have a good day everyone =]
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