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So, I really haven't posted here in a really long time, but I really enjoy journaling if for no other reason than it clears my head. It definitely isn't to entertain others, because I lead a really uneventful life.
Today we had a focus group led in class. I am very appreciative that they do this and give us the opportunity to talk about our likes and dislikes of the nursing school, program, professors, clinicals, and specific classes. Things got really heated while we were talking about our current semester and the lack of direction we receive. And the busy work that is required from us. We have 12 eight hour clinicals to gather by April 16th. This sounds really easy, especially considering that we only have class on Wednesdays. But we also have community health clinicals (1917 clinic, 2-3 hospice visits, sex ed teaching, poverty simulation, feeding the homeless) and our teaching project (ours is an hour and a half away). So I'd say it is fair to assume that we have at least one community health clinical every week or so. Plus with each management clinical we are required to write about 2 objectives. Each objective requires one page of pre clinical and one page of post clinical writing. This means 4 typed pages per clinical (in proper APA format with at least two cited references). For me, my clinical days run from 8:30-4:30pm. So I leave at 8 and get home at 5. So really if I have 2 clinicals a week, one day of class, and one community health clinical, that essentially leaves one weekday to do 8 pages of management clinical work, plus the bookwork which averages to be about 4-5 pages typed single spaced, plus the community clinical paperwork.
Writing all that out makes me understand why it is I feel like I have no time, even though I only have class one day a week. Not that that makes it better. I guess though surrendering to the lack o control helps a little bit. Unfortunately, I was used to JanTerm, where I had clinicals on the weekends. And class like twice that whole month. The rest of the time I could spend keeping the house clean, working out, setting up my aquarium. It was pretty awesome. Grr.
The other thing that has been taking up time is church. We have an Inquirer's class Wednesdays, Bible study/ Eucharist/ social justice event Thursday nights, church nursery at Allsaint's in the mornings and church and dinner at St. Andrew's at night.
Caroline and I were just talking about how we really don't like our last semester, and how sad that is because we just want it to be over. Which sucks because there are a few people here that I would like to stay friends with, but we won't be in the same state anymore after May.
Today we had a focus group led in class. I am very appreciative that they do this and give us the opportunity to talk about our likes and dislikes of the nursing school, program, professors, clinicals, and specific classes. Things got really heated while we were talking about our current semester and the lack of direction we receive. And the busy work that is required from us. We have 12 eight hour clinicals to gather by April 16th. This sounds really easy, especially considering that we only have class on Wednesdays. But we also have community health clinicals (1917 clinic, 2-3 hospice visits, sex ed teaching, poverty simulation, feeding the homeless) and our teaching project (ours is an hour and a half away). So I'd say it is fair to assume that we have at least one community health clinical every week or so. Plus with each management clinical we are required to write about 2 objectives. Each objective requires one page of pre clinical and one page of post clinical writing. This means 4 typed pages per clinical (in proper APA format with at least two cited references). For me, my clinical days run from 8:30-4:30pm. So I leave at 8 and get home at 5. So really if I have 2 clinicals a week, one day of class, and one community health clinical, that essentially leaves one weekday to do 8 pages of management clinical work, plus the bookwork which averages to be about 4-5 pages typed single spaced, plus the community clinical paperwork.
Writing all that out makes me understand why it is I feel like I have no time, even though I only have class one day a week. Not that that makes it better. I guess though surrendering to the lack o control helps a little bit. Unfortunately, I was used to JanTerm, where I had clinicals on the weekends. And class like twice that whole month. The rest of the time I could spend keeping the house clean, working out, setting up my aquarium. It was pretty awesome. Grr.
The other thing that has been taking up time is church. We have an Inquirer's class Wednesdays, Bible study/ Eucharist/ social justice event Thursday nights, church nursery at Allsaint's in the mornings and church and dinner at St. Andrew's at night.
Caroline and I were just talking about how we really don't like our last semester, and how sad that is because we just want it to be over. Which sucks because there are a few people here that I would like to stay friends with, but we won't be in the same state anymore after May.