Hello guys and gals!
Long time no speak.
I’ve been pretty busy with school. I’m in the final stretch of nursing school (73 days ahhhhh). I CANNOT believe it’s almost over. Seriously. 2016 flew by! Anyways, I passed psychiatric nursing (thank you Lord). I ended up with a B in the class. I was kinda bummed out because I ended up with a 92.1 and if you read my blog post about the basics of my nursing program, then you would know a 93 is considered an A and I was just about a point shy of an A. Either way, I’m still grateful for passing the course with a decent grade and I also did really well on the HESI. I got an 1167, this was the highest I’ve ever scored on a HESI exam. I was really proud of myself. Overall I did enjoy the course. Psychiatry is such a complex topic and learning about different mental and addictions disorders was extremely interesting. Ehhh, I’m not completely sold on the idea of becoming a psychiatric nurse, however, I’m not as opposed to it as I was before. Either way, psych patients end up in all areas of nursing so the content is very relevant to any nursing specialty. My clinical experience was pretty brief. This is mostly because the facility I was at had a lot of high-risk patients so students weren’t allowed on the floor for longer than an hour. That was psych in a nutshell!
On to the next one! So advanced Medical-Surgical nursing or Medical-Surgical nursing 2 started. This class is 6 weeks and I’m already two weeks in. Next week with be the beginning of the 3rd week. Up to now there has been one exam on the endocrine system that was this past Friday. So far I like the content. The endocrine system is pretty damn important and now I find myself looking at strangers who look like they may have an endocrine disorder and trying to diagnose them. I studied so much for this exam and I felt very prepared. After taking the test I knew I had passed but there were a couple of questions I was unsure of. And of course most of those questions were select-all-that-apply. Those are always the questions I struggle with the most. In this class there will be 2 Tests (25% each), a final (35%), and the HESI (15%). I’m trying to start this course off strong and seeing as this first test was worth 25% of my grade I don’t have much wiggle room to not do well. Anyways that’s my update with school. I’m still chugging along. Hello to all my new subscribers/followers! Thanks for following my journey ^_^
Until next time…..see ya!
The Black Nurse 