NCLEX-PN!! CKR on BSG!!!

[verushka70]

Well, I freaked out after I took the NCLEX-PN exam (for Practical Nurse, not Registered Nurse -- that will be next July) Saturday morning. As if it wasn't freaky enough: they photograph you, fingerprint you, and video/audio record you while you're taking the exam. I'm like, omfg, these people are serious. I started around 9am (they let me in a little early) and stopped around 10am. After all my practice on medication math -- including the titratable meds that don't concern me until the NCLEX-RN exam -- I got no math questions at all! After a while, I was praying for a math question -- which is absolutely the weirdest thing because I hate math, I have always hated math, and the only reason I can do the med math well is because it's frakkin' arithmetic, not actually math. But anyway. So I left thinking, Frak, that was over too soon, I must have failed, the vast majority of the questions I could not answer confidently, I'm doomed... and why the frak did I get so many scenario questions? Every other question (any many questions in a row!) were things like, "You're caring for a patient 2 hours postpartum..." or "...12 hours post-thyroidectomy..." or "...8 hours post-skateboarding injury and ED admission" and then you had to choose the best intervention from four choices three of which are correct -- so it's not like you're choosing the obviously correct answer from three which are wrong, it's that you're choosing the highest priority answer from three that are right. And sometimes they were so esoteric. But the important point is -- OMFG -- I passed. What a relief! Now I can get a $21/hour job at a nearby LTC center, maybe 16-20 hrs a week. Yay! I'll have real money and a job again!

Or not.

And, wtf, CKR is just all over BSG lately! He's been in the last three episodes straight, I think! (I'm taping them from my mother's satellite service for my sister who lives in Wisconsin and has no cable/satellite, but it comes in handy for me!) He's not in necessarily droolicious scenes, but, the lip-smackage between his Leoben & Starbuck a few eps ago was, like, whoa. And I've already rambled about that, but... way to convince a woman, dude. I've thought since the DS ep Strange Bedfellows that CKR must be a good kisser. And he seems to be featured this season quite a bit. He was in last night's ep, too. So, yay.

And today's med/surg clinical was hectic. But, y'know, even though I really liked the mother-baby unit for my OB clinicals, it was kinda boring. The days seemed to pass fairly slowly. Not so med/surg, and we're just the med/surg-ortho unit. It's not like we're on telemetry (yet; that starts next week). (yikes!) But it's damned busy. I even got to do the whole discharge process today on one of my patients, because my RN was so swamped with other stuff -- and she signed off on it when I was done, so -- yay -- I did it correctly. I dunno, I'm actually getting good at hanging IV meds, heplocking and D/C-ing IVs -- our instructor even let me start an IV last week! Which was cool. I know other people who have different clinical instructors who've never started an IV yet. And in the next 4 weeks we'll get to spend a day in the ER and a day in the cath lab. So that should be cool. It's gotten to the point where giving oral meds or subQs is boring.

But, still, I'm glad I finished the stupid cultural report we're doing tomorrow. All that's left is the ongoing clinical prep & pathophysiology sheets (every damn Tues & Wed, on each patient!) and the group newsletter. And my rotation through the TB/home health and public health department (probably giving flu shots).

I've been working on a paper for my clinical instructor all night so I haven't even checked the election results. But earlier, around dinner time, BBC World News had some very interesting perspective on the US elections -- they had a guest speaker on who pointed out that wherever Bush campaigned for Republican candidates, their poll numbers invariably went down after Bush's departure. Heh! And Rick Santorum (scroll to the bottom of the linked page for the definition of "santorum"!) didn't win in Pennsylvania! Woohoo!

Now I must finish these stupid clinical prep & pathophys sheets. And wonder what will happen on the next BSG. Damn, that show and Veronica Mars have just grabbed me by the throat this season (not that they didn't before). I keep arguing with my younger sister re: the feminist analysis of Veronica's pursuit of the campus rapist(s), but I won't go into that now...

Comments

[grey853.livejournal.com]

Congrats for passing. Yea!

[verushka70.livejournal.com]

Thank you!