I made it!

Well, it feels good to be able to say that I have successfully finished my first semester of nursing school! Last Tuesday was my last test. I wound up with an A in clinical, a B in Skills (sooo close to an A!), and a B in Theory...my semester GPA is a 3.33.

After our last test, I had everyone over for an evening BBQ at our house. We filled up on burgers, drank some celebratory cocktails, and talked about how fast the semester went by. I invited everybody's spouses, boyfriends, children, etc so it was nice to meet all of the significant others as well. Jason did a fabulous job as the grill master!

For now, I am catching up on the rest of my life and plan on taking some substitute jobs until I am able to start my new job at Baylor Medical Center on May 20th.

Don't worry, I'll continue to blog! I'm sure I will have some good stuff to tell you about my adventures on the job.

See below, I've included some pictures for you...The first two are from the hospital on our last day of clinical. The next one is from our night out, after our last clinical day, at On The Border. The last two are from the BBQ at our house...make note of Jason doing some serious grilling. :)

Some pictures, as promised...

One more test!

As promised, here's a picture of my clinical group. The silly picture really captures our fun personalities, it's been a fun group. I have more from our dinner celebration we had after our last day of clinical but I still have to download them onto the computer. More to come!

My Theory final is Tuesday morning...I am so ready to be done with it! My other two classes are complete...I made an A in Clinical (woohoo!) and a B in Skills. I was a little disappointed about my B in Skills as I should have made an A. I had exactly a 90 up until last Tuesday's Wound Care evaluation when I didn't exactly do too well on the check-off. I made an 86 which isn't terrible but it was enough to drop me to a B. Oh well, I can revel in my A in Clinical instead!

Last Tuesday was definitely the most stressful day of nursing school thus far. We had the ATI test and the wound care skills check-off. Our instructors just put so much pressure on us to do well on the ATI test and there was so much material to learn. I have never been so nervous and freaked out about a test! I made a 73.3 so I passed and was able to breathe again. My wound care evaluation was that afternoon and my nerves were just so shot from that morning's test that it caused me to make some stupid mistakes (hence the 86).

Now I just have to survive one more test on Tuesday morning. We are capping off the end of the semester with a BBQ at my house that afternoon...looking forward to letting loose! :)

I'll be back later this week to recap on my first semester! Have a good week.