Direct entry and graduate entry programs II

Jess RN · Jun 10, 2005

Pharm, and advanced physio mostly. They're not hard, precisely, just so much info all at once. Well, you know, we're in the same li'l boat. I never realized how much having just one really long lecture per week in each class would kind of, um, suck. Meh, when I wrote that earlier, I had just read 5 chapters of pharm, none of which had much actual science to it, it's just a leeetle overwhelming. And quizzes, exams, projects (group projects are the bane of my very existence), and oh by the way, in the hospital next Wednesday.
It was so cool though, yesterday. I learned to take blood pressures. Now THAT is why I am here.

Oh my gosh you guys I'm so nervous for the fall! If you all are overwhelmed already I don't know how I will be able to cope!

I'm in week one of my four week overlap of my 6 wk Orgo and 10 wk Micro and I'm already losing it. I feel like I have no time for my kids and I'm cranky and distracted when I am with them.

I honestly don't know how this is going to work :uhoh21:

elizabells, BSN, RN · Jun 10, 2005

Oh my gosh you guys I'm so nervous for the fall! If you all are overwhelmed already I don't know how I will be able to cope!
I'm in week one of my four week overlap of my 6 wk Orgo and 10 wk Micro and I'm already losing it. I feel like I have no time for my kids and I'm cranky and distracted when I am with them.
I honestly don't know how this is going to work :uhoh21:

It's going to be fine, pumpkin, I'm just a huge drama queen. We had a four hour pharm lecture this morning and I Loooooved it. Best lecture so far. So I just need to chill out. And Orgo and Micro together is probably the hardest thing you'll ever do. Actual school will be easier!

bruinlaura · Jun 10, 2005

My computer works again!!! I had a little drama, apparently columbia's wireless software and my computer did not get along and my computer started to say mean things to me and freeze. Nice tech guy in the hospital fixed it though so I'm back and all is well.

Um yeah, so I am hoping this 4 hour lecture thing is only for the summer because even in lectures I like (today's for example) I am finding it hard to concentrate and I'm falling asleep.

Elizabells, hi. I can't remember if I was supposed to call or meet you somewhere sometime so if I was sorry for being such a ditz.

So I'm going to go figure out what to do with my friday night. Have a good one.

~Laura

Mission · Jun 11, 2005

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Um yeah, so I am hoping this 4 hour lecture thing is only for the summer because even in lectures I like (today's for example) I am finding it hard to concentrate and I'm falling asleep....

I know what you mean, just when I finally thought I broke my espresso addiction. I'm the one sleeping the the back row during Issues! :rolleyes:

Gennaver, MSN · Jun 11, 2005

These two points are really important. You have a big decision before you! If you could know you are in at DePaul for the fall and also had this offer on the table, which way would you lean? What about an acceptance at DePaul for the winter?
A bird in the hand is certainly wonderful- and if it's something you were set on doing anyway after the MSN- then it could be that a MSW then an MSN is the way to go.
Keep us posted and good luck with your big decisions!
-Jess

Hello Jess,

I really have been going through all the 'possibilities' in my head. I really think that I will have to wait and see what comes down the pike.

The biggest unknown is if DePaul will accept me into their program for the winter, (I think it is most likely too late for fall and then there is the cost crunch too).

Sigh, thing is, even though I want to do both, they both take two years.

If DePaul calls and says I am in, I will JUMP at it first.

If Dominican University, (the one where I miscalculated the scholarship) says that I am in with the scholarship...I will ask if there are any deferred acceptances.

If I should get the same acceptances, (I wish I would) then deferring DePaul would necessitate retaking the sciences...

So, if anything I have learned to wait a lot calmer.

Good luck with all the busyness!! You can do it!

Gen

elizabells, BSN, RN · Jun 11, 2005

I know what you mean, just when I finally thought I broke my espresso addiction. I'm the one sleeping the the back row during Issues!

Sweetheart, I think we're ALL the ones sleeping in the back row during issues! Actually, I'm in the gang of 4 smokers that barrel outside at each break. There's a blond one, two short dark haired ones, (one quiet and one from Yonkers), and I'm the medium sized reddish haired one that's usually talking the loudest. Hee, it's like we're playing 'where's waldo' with each other in real time!

Jess RN · Jun 11, 2005

It's going to be fine, pumpkin, I'm just a huge drama queen. We had a four hour pharm lecture this morning and I Loooooved it. Best lecture so far. So I just need to chill out. And Orgo and Micro together is probably the hardest thing you'll ever do. Actual school will be easier!

Thanks elizabells! I'm a fairly big drama queen myself (but I've got nothing on my 2 yr old!). I guess Orgo/Micro is such drudgery, that I've forgotten that if the content were actually interesting, the workload would be more bearable. Micro's interesting, but I hate the online format. Chem is hellacious, but the professor is great. The workload is just insane though. Especially Micro- lots of busywork, which I HATE.

-Jess

smile123 · Jun 11, 2005

Pharm, and advanced physio mostly. They're not hard, precisely, just so much info all at once. Well, you know, we're in the same li'l boat. I never realized how much having just one really long lecture per week in each class would kind of, um, suck. Meh, when I wrote that earlier, I had just read 5 chapters of pharm, none of which had much actual science to it, it's just a leeetle overwhelming. And quizzes, exams, projects (group projects are the bane of my very existence), and oh by the way, in the hospital next Wednesday.
It was so cool though, yesterday. I learned to take blood pressures. Now THAT is why I am here.

Hey Elizabells,

I got to take a pulse (radial, brachial), hear respiratory sounds, and take a BP on my colleagues too. We also have "SIM" man, so it was really cool to listen to rales, wheezes, Ronchi and Stridor sounds (all abnormal sounds for breathing).

I was listening for a heart beat and all of a sudden I heard nothing! I looked at the instructor and said, "the patient's not breathing!" She said, "You're right!" She was looking to see if I could really hear it or not! ;-)

We're already developing care plans (they are supposed to be the bane of every nursing student's existence). I also met with my first client at the nearby residence nursing home (assisted/independent living facility) last Friday. The program is overwhelming, but exciting at the same time.

Back to studying,

Smile123

elizabells, BSN, RN · Jun 12, 2005

We have the computerized dummies too! The really sad thing is, for the first half of lab, something weird was going on with my steth, like you have to turn the ... end ... part ... until it clicks to switch from diaphragm to bell, and I was using the wrong side, and I was about to wig, but I figured it out, FINALLY. I was worried I was going deaf or something.

smile123 · Jun 12, 2005

We have the computerized dummies too! The really sad thing is, for the first half of lab, something weird was going on with my steth, like you have to turn the ... end ... part ... until it clicks to switch from diaphragm to bell, and I was using the wrong side, and I was about to wig, but I figured it out, FINALLY. I was worried I was going deaf or something.

Yes, they told us about turning our stethoscope bells 180 degrees if we couldn't hear the sounds clearly. It makes quite a difference!

Smile123

Mission · Jun 13, 2005

We have the computerized dummies too! The really sad thing is, for the first half of lab, something weird was going on with my steth, like you have to turn the ... end ... part ... until it clicks to switch from diaphragm to bell, and I was using the wrong side, and I was about to wig, but I figured it out, FINALLY. I was worried I was going deaf or something.

No one could find my pulse in skills lab...I think they decided I was clinically dead. Hmm, I wonder if I can use that as an excuse if I miss a clinical...

elizabells, BSN, RN · Jun 13, 2005

No one could find my pulse in skills lab...I think they decided I was clinically dead. Hmm, I wonder if I can use that as an excuse if I miss a clinical...

Hey, it's worth a shot, right? Aw geez, we have class in eight hours. I should go to bed. Curse my insistence on transcribing all my notes a second time!

Hey btw, I did download epocrates to my PDA like our pharm prof said and it's pretty cool.