Rohan

I have to start all over...again...to do this. Even though my campus is supposed to be part of the main campus, many things still don't transfer. I need to do it now or waste another year..

Anyone switch from pre-nursing to pre-med?

Love, love, LOVE my A&P instructor. I wish he was my dad! lol Friday in cadaver lab he was kind enough to explain morning wood and blue balls to bunch of young women. He was beet red but said it all quite nicely. :)

What do you mean by unimpacted?

How funny...someone just said something about this to me today and I was clueless. He said it is the 80 hours we spend in LPN school following around preceptors.

People can be odd without having others completely over react. He is a great nurse and person. If you think for one second I would put my child in a dangerous or unsafe situation with any practitioner, you are mistaken. I am the patient who will leave mid visit if the doctor is an ass or incompetent. I am the patient who will complain until something is done. I'm not going into specifics. I will say that the comment, while he was talking to my son, was directed more to me and he again apologized the other day when I saw him. It was ODD/STRANGE to have a student that I know caring for my family. That's what was the odd part of the visit. I would definately trust him to care for me or any of my family in an emergency situation. :) As for the little man's arm, it's doing as well as can be expected. He had to have a shower last night and we did the old plastic bag taped over the arm thing. He's really ticked about having a cast and boy is he showing it! He wants to take a snorkling class as soon as it gets off. :)

My advisor has to sign off on my schedule before I can take anything. Give them a call Monday and check. Good luck!

I didn't get any pictures...my cell phone can't send them anyway. He is a smart little guy. The instructor hung them on her fridge but did put big stars on them before she took them home.

My 5 year old spent the day at school with me. During lab today, he helped to dissect the sheeps kidney. It was so cute. He came to one of my study labs a while back and spent the whole hour copying different molecules and then gave his pictures to my instructor.. :)

Thanks. He got his real cast on yesterday and is none to happy. He only has to wear it for 3 weeks though.

I don't know him super well. He made an odd comment when he was talking to my son trying to be funny, but I won't go in to that. He was very tired and I'm going to chalk it up to that. He's a nice guy and he's a good nurse. It was a little strange being cared for by a classmate.

An LPN who is going for his RN got to take care of my son today. We're in an English class together. He did a good job but it was odd. I guess I better get used to that since we don't live in a gigantic city. My older son accidently ran over my little ones arm with his bike and broke his ulna. The radiology tech was really nice and let us see the x-rays right after we took them and let me "diagnose" the fracture. We got the good old hard splint today and go tomorrow for casting. It isn't too bad of a break so hopefully he'll heal quickly.

I wonder if people who donate their bodies really understand what is going to happen to them... That would completely freak me out getting a cat like that!

You don't have to touch the cadavers...or really even look at them, but you have to come to the lab or the professor will drop 5 points off your overall lab scores for every lab you miss. We have one girl who cries at every lab and she only really ever looked at the cadavers once that I've seen. There are plastic models in the lab as well and she'll sit back there and look at them. I'm extremely grateful to have access to this lab. Well, I'm off to work and then play with the boys. Have a good day!

We don't do the disection, we just get to look around in them and see what it is we are attempting to memorize. The pre-med students do the disecting. We have had sheep brains and eyes to work on. I think it's next week when we get the sheep hearts. We also had baby cow thigh bones.

I hope you hear better news from the other school. Good luck! Our school currently had room for 13 this semester for the LPN.They usually have 20 spots per semester. I won't apply until next fall.

I don't know what the deal was today. The smell usually isn't that bad and I have a great charcoal mask anyway but today as soon as you opened the lab door the smell damn near knocked you over! On to the cool stuff... Our male cadaver died of leukemia and he has a permanent chemo line in, which is cool because you can see where the tubing goes. His stomach has a HUGE diverticula. He must have had some epigastric issues with it being that big. His spleen was forced around to his back because his stomach and the outpouching were so big. Then there's the abdominal aorta stent. His abdominal aorta is gigantic. You can see where the tissue had been thinned and how stretched out it was compared to the stent they put in. The stent was really neat looking too. We're supposed to be focusing on veins and arteries, but since I just had my gallbladder taken out, I spent a nice chunk of class today putting our female cadaver back together to see why my incisions are where they are. I still don't quite get why I have such a big incision about a finger below my sternum but I'm sure I'll irritate my surgeon at my follow up visit with all my questions. I thought the incision would be farther down.

Since my SUPPORT was also erased, good luck on your retest!

Do you have a Michael's near you? They have tons of inexpensive crafts.

He said the parts of bones, not the bones themselves. You can do it! Trying starting at the skull, going over it repeatedly and adding a new section of bones on, going over it all repeatedly. Good luck!

I'm really disappointed with myself but I'm considering it my practice run. I'll get a low A or B in my english, a low B or high C in my intermediate algebra (hate math) and if hell freezes over a LOOOOOW C in my A&P class, the one that is 1&2 combined into one class. It's not that I think A&P has difficult concepts, I just couldn't remember anything. I finally figured out it was because I've trained my brain to remember as little as possible because I do medical transcription. I was going to take summer classes, but instead I'm going to study my A&P all summer and get it down. I also had to do a lot of traveling to care for my grandpa, which was unexpected. Plus I was having lots of gallbladder problems, which I finally got taken out last Friday! :) That hurts WAY more than I thought it would by the way. I swear someone dropped me on the floor. And Steri-strips are NOT my friend. I also found out I have to apply for an extension to get any future federal financial aid and I have to fill out the next 4 semesters of classes. Hopefully my advisor will okay my plan. I'll be able to get a nice chunk of the LPN/RN classes that aren't NUR out of the way. Thanks for listening to the complaining. :)

My coloring book is by Wynn Kapit/Lawrence E. Elson. Love it! My flash cards, which were great for muscles, are Barron's Anatomy Flash Cards. Came with a great muscle poster too.

I got coloring books and flash cards from Barnes and Noble. Also got A&P for Dummies. :)

I'm planning on taking my generals for the BSN/CNM while doing the waiting game...and some classes that I'd like to take that aren't required.

Well, a couple of us got together and talked with the instructor. Apparently there have been a few other incidents during labs, particularly the last session. That was the first one with genitalia exposed. He's going to talk to each lab before they touch the bodies next time. I feel better now but I'm sad that some of these students can't use common sense. On a happy note, we get to do sheep brains on Thursday and human on Friday!