Semester One, Week Eleven

This is the second cold I've had in a month. I think I know where I got this cold from, though. A middle schooler; when I participated in a hearing and vision screening last week.

~Sigh~

I have laryngitis now, so I have no voice. Awesome.

This was a challenging week. It would seem that all the major nursing projects of the first semester are all due, or coming due in these last four (!!!) weeks of the semester. 

We had our two difficult exams this week. By the grace of God, I passed both of them with A's. At the start of every exam, I always find myself thinking "I can't do this; you seriously thought you could be a nurse? This is a career ending test right here, if I ever saw one..."

Love the negativity of my mind. Pharmacology wasn't nearly as bad as I anticipated. The key is found in reading your textbook (surprise) and thoroughly understanding the material. After that, things like glucocorticoids and mineralocorticoids come together. I now understand the hormones of the anterior and posterior pituitary gland, but if I wanted to sound extra smart, I'd say "I now understand the hormones of the adenohypophysis and neurohypophysis." Ha! 

I met with my math professor yesterday because suddenly, gravity and pump flow rates made no sense to me. I mean, I get that with gravity pumps it's gtt/min, and pumps are mL/hr, but seriously? Why do I need to calculate drops, and hours and the like? It made me a little crazy this week, so I scheduled some time to talk it through. It began to make sense, and my professor showed me a few tricks, but ¡Ay, caramba! why is this happening to me?

And then, she told me that she could see me going into teaching one day, and that she was surprised she was saying that to a first semester student, but she could see my potential. I've always thought, if there was a second career other than nursing, it would be teaching. So who knows, maybe one day, I'll be RN Sarah, who gets to come alongside nursing students and share a bit of my wisdom with them.

That would be a dream.