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so theres this lady i went to nursing school with named heather, who in my incredibally full of myself opinion is probably the other smartest u of m student. when i found out she had also got the hsc adult emerg practicum, i started paying more attention to her. i never had classes with her until 4th year. i was always the first done my exams by a landslide until heather was in my classes. she wrote them faster then me. how incredibly annoying (although getting my academic cockiness knocked down a couple notches is probably not a bad thing). it became my goal to beat her in time and grades and finally tied her at the end of the last semester. i know this all sounds petty but it's NURSING SCHOOL. it's the most mundane experience you could possibly undertake.
anyways, heather rocks and is quite fabulous, so i was pumped to do my practicum with her. we're now both taking this five-week regional emergency nursing course together, along with some other smashing people (emergency nurses really are the coolest). we had an ekg analysis exam today. did i study? no. BUT i beat heather!!!! yeah! i handed in my paper a whole 30 seconds ahead of her, and im pretty sure i got at least 90% on it. ha! we have two more exams together - the provinicial emergency nursing exam and the national registered nurses exam (on june 5th and 7th - oh oy, what a fun week) and i will beat her on those too then i am officially queen of the universe!
yesterday i got home, had to break into my house and opened my two peices of mail - one was a notice from a collection agency, the other was from the salvation army positive lifestyles retraining program i have to go to cause i hang out with filthy sholifters. conduct unbecoming much? (this is a reference that'll only make sense to maggie, bacause she is the most awesomest lady in the world who is coming home to save me from a friend-less summer)
ive been having a lot of problems lately trying to mesh my inherent personality and style with nursing. i have little panic attacks when i get dressed for this course every day, and when i let little snippets of my real life slip out. i dont really know how to balance it. like its important for me to have good solid relationships with the people i work with, cause i spend so much time with them (60+ hours some weeks) in really stressful situations where we have to trust each other. but i need to tone myself down a lot to fit into that. i guess its just super hard to fiqure out how much i need to tone down, and how much im just kinda scared and selling myself and my coworkers short. skids working in the straight world - any tips?
ive been so damn sick lately, and realized yesterday that i dont just have a random collection of incredibly frustratingly hellish symptoms, my fibromyalgia is back. this can be blamed on me thinking in my head two months ago, 'wow my fibro is really gone for good, how fabulous'. i forgot how much it sucks. especially since i am now working full time. and not taking opiates. i cant think of a way to write about this without sounding flip, but its safe to say i am sufficiently devastated.
theres a girl at my work whos leaving to go to alberta law school at the beginning of august. word on the unit is she works a 0.7. i am going to BEG for her position when she leaves. a .7 would be so good for me, and if i can get my health under control, i can train for the SAP program, which ill tell yall about if i ever do it.
xo
anyways, heather rocks and is quite fabulous, so i was pumped to do my practicum with her. we're now both taking this five-week regional emergency nursing course together, along with some other smashing people (emergency nurses really are the coolest). we had an ekg analysis exam today. did i study? no. BUT i beat heather!!!! yeah! i handed in my paper a whole 30 seconds ahead of her, and im pretty sure i got at least 90% on it. ha! we have two more exams together - the provinicial emergency nursing exam and the national registered nurses exam (on june 5th and 7th - oh oy, what a fun week) and i will beat her on those too then i am officially queen of the universe!
yesterday i got home, had to break into my house and opened my two peices of mail - one was a notice from a collection agency, the other was from the salvation army positive lifestyles retraining program i have to go to cause i hang out with filthy sholifters. conduct unbecoming much? (this is a reference that'll only make sense to maggie, bacause she is the most awesomest lady in the world who is coming home to save me from a friend-less summer)
ive been having a lot of problems lately trying to mesh my inherent personality and style with nursing. i have little panic attacks when i get dressed for this course every day, and when i let little snippets of my real life slip out. i dont really know how to balance it. like its important for me to have good solid relationships with the people i work with, cause i spend so much time with them (60+ hours some weeks) in really stressful situations where we have to trust each other. but i need to tone myself down a lot to fit into that. i guess its just super hard to fiqure out how much i need to tone down, and how much im just kinda scared and selling myself and my coworkers short. skids working in the straight world - any tips?
ive been so damn sick lately, and realized yesterday that i dont just have a random collection of incredibly frustratingly hellish symptoms, my fibromyalgia is back. this can be blamed on me thinking in my head two months ago, 'wow my fibro is really gone for good, how fabulous'. i forgot how much it sucks. especially since i am now working full time. and not taking opiates. i cant think of a way to write about this without sounding flip, but its safe to say i am sufficiently devastated.
theres a girl at my work whos leaving to go to alberta law school at the beginning of august. word on the unit is she works a 0.7. i am going to BEG for her position when she leaves. a .7 would be so good for me, and if i can get my health under control, i can train for the SAP program, which ill tell yall about if i ever do it.
xo