School

Well, here we are again. The beginning of yet another semester. This time around, I'll be taking Health Assessment where I'll learn how to do an entire physical exam as well as determine what any abnormalities mean. I'm looking forward to this because we learned this as undergrads but you learn the exams appropriate for whatever area you end up working in and kind of forget everything else. Also, as an RN you are not really responsible for interpreting the findings, you report them off to someone else who basically confirms the findings and orders labs and what not to find out what's going on. In this class, I'll learn how to interpret the findings and figure out what to with them, how to know which lab tests to order. We also learn how to do an extensive patient interview. My first class is tonight, in subsquent weeks my class is followed by a lab where we actually practice the physical exam techniques. Word is that this course is intense and if the letter that was sent to me is any indication, I would say it will be. The letter said that we have to take a test on the first night of class to make sure that we know enough going into the class to benefit from it. There is a written exam tonight, if we don't pass we get one more shot and then you have to postpone for an additional semester. In addition to that, we received an email saying that there were 8 chapters to read by tonight. So I'm guessing you know what I did with my week off from the other class.

I did find some time to knit though...I am obviously still working on the blanket for M's parents but to break up the tedium of that, I also started a smaller project; the Snowflake Socks . I'm using some scrap yarn from my Herringbone Mittens (Cascade 220 in green and blue). I'll post a pic of my progress when I'm learning how to test deep tendon reflexes.