Exercise

I have been spending the past couple of days working on building a website about running bleachers.  This has kept me pretty busy, but it is something that I love.  Not the running bleachers as much as just the working out and staying in shape.  This keeps me sane during nursing school. Anyway check it out I don't think you will be dissappointed.

Get NCLEX prep tool

This tool from ATI is a great NCLEX prep tool. You can throw it on your ipod or iphone and practice NCLEX questions wherever you are . . . check it out.

 There are also a few free NCLEX prep tools.  This one costs about $20 but I think it is worth it.

Nursing School Test Taking

Okay, I've gotta plug this book one more time because it saved be during my first semester of nursing school.  It is called Test Success: Test-Taking Techniques for Beginning Nursing Students (click to view on Barnes & Noble), testing is a bit different in a BSN program, you are required to "think critically" and this book really helps you learn the game.  Thats all it really is, BSN tests are a game and once you figure out the strategies it becomes much easier.

Med Error

I admit it, I'm not proud of it, I knew it would come some day but I just hoped it would not be so early in my career.  I made a medication error.  I gave my patient Lactobacillus in the wrong form.  Lucky for the patient and me this was a VERY small and insignificant medication error.  I was supposed to give him another form of this probiotic but failed to read closely enough and administered the wrong med.  I immediately told my nurse and teacher who were supportive and cautioned me to read more carefully and pay better attention in the future. I felt pretty lousy, although it wasn't really a big deal, what if it had been. I have learned my lesson!

Respiratory Nursing

Clinicals this weekend in many ways restored my desire to be a nurse.  I think it had a lot to do with my clinical instructor.  She was mean, nice, helpfull . . . you get the picture.  She drilled us about our patients, their conditions, and the meds they were on, but at the same time she treated us like adults and allowed us to see many procedures and found opportunities to see procedures, practice skills etc.  Sadly, clinical instructors as good as her are hard to come by but on the up note this was the first time in nearly two months that I was excited to be in nursing school.

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