Catch up on last semester

So I thought I'd write on the best and worst of last semester.

Lets start with the worst (in no particular order):
1. Doing badly on the first patho test & the final. I got a B. I would be fine with this if my mother wasn't so obsessed with A's.
2. Tearing my ACL. It interfered with things like clinicals. That first clinical back was bad. My patient that week had a bed alarm. So I was often walking really fast to get to him. That must have looked funny. I was lucky that the week I tore my ACL was a holiday, so there were no clinicals.
3. Paperwork and nursing care plans. It's crazy. I'm still having a hard time remembering I need to write with verbs and stuff when I'm not writing for class. Paperwork just seemed to go on and on and I know it'll get worst with every semester.

And now the good stuff:
1. Getting an A in fundamentals. Any A felt good.
2. Getting a 98% on that one test in patho.
3. Getting an A on the critical reasoning paper. This was our first big care plan/case study/paper that we had to write. It didn't help that the patient I wrote about was not the easiest. You would think that would make it easier to write about, but not when your patient is confused and you need info from him for the paper.
4. Clinicals in general. I loved them. I liked doing new skills and seeing new things. I also felt really good when I was able to connect to my patient and talk to them.
5. Being able to say that I now have only 2 more years of nursing school.

I have to admit that I'm already getting bored with break and having nothing to study. But I was inspired wonderfully going to the "recognition" or pinning ceremony to help out as an usher. Only two more years and I'll be there. I was disappointed that they did not do the actual pinning. Apparently it was hard to find a place to pin people at last semesters ceremony, so they went with the lei presentation. I can't wait.