Dluv

At my school in order to pass you cannot get under an 85 in anything, lecture and clinicals. It was quite an adjustment because I saw myself as a "C" student in high school (maaaaany years ago) Right now my clinical grade is not so hot because I missed 1 clinical rotation due to a family function out of town and that resulted in two zeros for that day which hurt my semester grade alot. I also notice that daily clinical grades and points vary by instructor, some grade harder than others, even when you think your doing the same from rotation to rotation.

Ok, so this is my 4th semester in LPN school (I plan to graduate in 5 months) I have actually been in school for 14 months already due to my prereq classes such as psychology, math, computer and english comp. Anyways I've been with the same 20 people for 14 months now and some of them just get on my nerves sooo bad!Here is the senario....today I am at my clinical site at a LTC facility. My (annoying) classmate and I was helping a resident back to her room. When I got into her room I unhooked her floor mat alarm because I was going to be stepping on it when I transfered her from wheelchair to bed (my classmate watched me do this). Well, a few seconds later she says "well when you leave you know this needs to be hooked back up, your standing on it now and its supposed to beep if she gets up out of bed". I looked at her and said "I know, thats why I unhooked it, because I knew that I would be standing on it". It just irritates me because neither of us came from any healthcare background in our previous employers and we have had lots of LTC facility clincal experience in school...I'm all for helping each other out, but I hate it when other classmates think they know more than you all of the time, argh. Thanks for letting me vent