Class

This week is the first week of my modified work schedule:
Monday: 8-630
Tuesday: 8-630 unless I have class then it's 8-3p using 3.5 hours of vacation time
Wednesday: 8-630
Thursday: off to do 10 hours of clinical
Friday: 8-630

It is now Tuesday which means I have survived the first two days. Yesterday was tolerable, but started getting long at the 530 mark...the bonus is that I am now back to taking lunches because I was told that I would need to work 10.5 hours a day in order to get my time in and that skipping lunches was not feasible so now I'm making sure to take them!

I've also just gotten home from my first class which is the type of class I was waiting for since I decided to make nursing my major in undergrad. The focus is on Adult Health Promotion so we will be bringing in case studies, presenting them, discussing the pertinent negatives on the physical exam etc. The clinical portion we are expected to see patients, do the physicals, write the notes, write the prescriptions, order the labs etc. My first day is Thursday....


And I can't write about school without having a complaint about the constant lack of organization....About two months ago, we were sent a syllabus by someone other than the person who was listed as the instructor but is an advisor to many of us. The syllabus included the textbooks required for class so at that point I started to evaluate what I thought was worth it, what I already had, and what was fluff which I could just take out from the library. I ordered a lab interpretation book and an adult and family practice guideline books (that's two seperate books in case you're counting). After those books arrived, I received an email from the same person who originally sent the emails telling us the 2 books that were the ones we *really* needed, neither of which were on the original list. I then proceed to package up the books that I previously bought that were no longer on the short list of important books. Fast forward to tonight's class where a completely different syllabus was handed out by the actual instructor of the class with, wait for it.....a completely different set of mandatory texts! So there will be a total of 3 books that I was originally told to buy at 2 different time points that are actually not required at all. How is this level of disorganization acceptable?