i am in my last term of nursing school. 10 weeks until graduation. a few months away from taking my NCLEX exam and becoming an RN, leaving professional poo-cleaning behind me. 71 days until our "pinning ceremony" which is a special nursing thing, like graduation. the problem is...in those 71 days i will be busy, very busy. these are concerns i just learned about today. you don't have to read or understand, it's for me to freak out about.
clinical hours 150 hours in the hospital doing patient care, my favorite part about school. i'll be doing thirteen 12-hour shifts.
work someone's gotta pay for rent and school. so i've got to find work hours here and there. boo. my goal is 2-3 shifts a week.
resume, cover letter, portfolio self-explanatory i guess but i have to get together all these documents i was supposed to be saving over the past 2 years and put them neatly in a fancy folder for my portfolio. i'll have to raise them from the dead/recycling.
NCLEX practice questions and medspub tutorial busywork. 200 practice questions and 2.5 hours of tutorial are due every 2 weeks. if it takes about 1 minute per question, that's 200 minutes. so 1400 minutes = almost 24 hours of busy work.
simulation three times this quarter we will be going into the sim room and take care of a dummy, who will most likely code. yuck. this creates a ton of anxiety and is just. not. fun.
ONA convention day-long convention in jantzen beach, listening to speakers and such. 8:30-4:30. BOO!
HESI exam to be taken in third week. must get score of 750 or not allowed to take NCLEX exam.
leadership project at long term care facility. spend 24 hours on various projects with old people, including an in-service for the staff and care conference with a resident.
community project going to a head start program and putting fluoride on bratty little kids' mouths. they are gonna love it.
OSBN and NCLEX fill out a bunch of paperwork, get fingerprints, passport photo, and pay around $400 in various fees. sure, that's chump change considering how much i will be making as a nurse, BUT i am not making that right now. plus i have $1200 in tuition for this quarter.
take and pass NCLEX this will be a month after graduation but it's still there in my mind.
get a job really?!! do i have to?
life i don't think i'll have one of these this term, but i can try. i do have dodgeball every thursday and kickball on sundays. that's about it.
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whew, it's scary when you see it all laid out there in numbers of hours and everything right? that's all i did during grad school... accumulate hours. that was the only thing on my mind. 20 hours each of each speech path area times two (one for diagnostics and one for treatment) times another two (one set for adults and one set for children), plus a total mass hour count of like 350 or something i don't even remember. but we had to keep track of it all ourselves so that just made us think about it every step of the way and not enjoy actually doing it or learning lessons from it, it was just about getting the hours.
i think that was a real mistake by the national board to create those stipulations on clinicals, but i guess that's how everything in the real world is measured too right? hours = pay = money, so how do you get around that? still, it's a lot to think about...
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