golson

Being lucky enough to have co-workers that saw a shift as a team event, rather than a clear division of tasks. Getting introduced to relatively "safe" people with altered mental status helped a bit, too. I'm not sure how well I would've done with a really off the wall 1:1 right off the bat.

10 months on and things are going well. I'm bracing myself for the trauma patients to start coming in, since the weather has warmed up. They're a different stripe than my elderly falls and general surgery types I get in the winter. I'm just about a year away from graduation from my ADN program.

I just called Carol about this and she said the dates would be emailed out some time after school starts with orientation dates in October. She also said not to worry about doing the Metro State online orientation yet, as they don't have the list of us (and our STAR IDs). This will be covered at nursing orientation in October.

Really glad I haven't had to deal with anything this "feelings" intensive in the civilian workforce yet. The idea that somebody would correct me for toilet seat position (much less hunt me down to do so) or be so perturbed by somebody doing so that I felt the need to seek counsel on the internet is just mind blowing.

I always make it a point to get them to tell me what it is that they need. It took exactly one time for me to go get a nurse so the pt could ask for a cup of water to sear that into my memory. The nurse didn't give me a hard time, but I kinda felt like a jackass.

Old ladies that have issues with a guy toileting them or cleaning them up. Its really frustrating. *** am I supposed to do, let them lay in their own $#!% until the RN is done doing RN things? Sometimes I can trade tasks with female PCA, but that trade has got to get old for them, since its not usually a fair trade.

I'm in at ARCC.

#%@! Nothing in the mail again.

Yeah, seriously, why isn't this handled via email? What takes 6 weeks to figure out? As with most things, there is probably more to it than meets the eye, but all they're doing is verifying that you've taken the pre-reqs and then adding your GPA to your TEAS score. It isn't that hard.

Got the mail. Its not in there. I'm in Blaine, so it's not like it had far to go.

Mmm. Morning beers to take the edge off the anxiety. Don't look at me like that, I work nights and I'm still up.

OK, I've played it cool, calm, and collected until the last few hours of the wait. Mailman is usually here around 9.

Yes. I had a dream where I punched one of my patients in the face. Some backstory: they got drunk and wrecked their motorcycle, the only fluid they will now consume is ice cold ginger ale, they've been throwing a pity party for going on 3 days now, and continue small talk when you're trying to leave the room. They steer every conversation back to the fact they have amnesia, and it seems to be a defense mechanism to release them of guilt for riding drunk. Strange that I dream about this one, since I don't really dwell on it much when I'm awake.

Am I the only one not sweating this? If you've got the previous cut off scores, you have a pretty good idea if you'll make ut.

I put in for ARCC's program only. I had an 11.5 composite, so here's to hoping. One of the advisers there told me that the lowest score accepted for the last two semesters has been in the mid 10s.