University!

The one morning that I walked to Uni on the first half semester I took some photos, This is of the main campus- it was a rather crisp and fresh morning with fog about.

Over the hill- there it is! That taller building on the right is the library.

Bit foggy here, but that is the building where majority of my lectures are held. 

Assignment writing and researching

I spend a lot, and I mean a lot of my time researching instead of writing the actual assignment when I do sit down to start and or finish them... I have so far written three essays and I have another two to write, with clinical assessments, quizzes and clinical documents to complete as well within the next month or so before I go on exam leave, sit my exams and then say goodbye to my first semester of Uni!

This is what my study looks like....

Writing my first essay

Our first year nurses Facebook page :) 

This wasn't procrastination on Facebook, it was using other peoples questions, and comments to help me to research for the essay.

Don't know how to turn it around on here, but this is my name badge and watch for clinical :)

Easter Break!

Mid-semester break has now come! Which also means that it is Easter :)

It is actually almost a week into my mid-semester break, but I have been busy over the weekend and beginning of the week doing... I don't actually know what.  And today I have spent writing my psychology essay which is due in a week and a half on the first day back after break.

Today we had the floor fixed and new vinyl put down as when I first moved in here we had rotten floor boards in the laundry space which hadn't been declared or anything said to the property maintenance people.

Yesterday I finally got my flu shot- I wanted to get it when it first became available but I was trying to make sure I wasn't going to be scheduled to be on clinical placement incase I reacted to it and became sick, as I know some people do and I hadn't had one before.

I have handed multiple assignments in and done two mid-semester tests now, and I only have three results back over all, so waiting waiting for the rest of them.  It takes about three weeks for each mark to come back, mainly for essays.  I have three more essays/ assignments to hand in throughout the second half of the semester and then also my exams which are in the first half of June before I go on a 3 week long break between first and second semesters!

Shifts.

I have just woken up after 4 hours sleep from starting at 6.45am Friday morning on my clinical placement, finishing at 3.30pm, going home and sleeping for 4 hours or so and then getting up to go to work work to do a graveyard shift at 11pm finishing at 7am this morning! First time I have done a two shifts in a (row) like that.. not really a row, but so close with a night shift.  I am now able to reply to my emails waiting and get some form of study done today before going into tomorrow which I am planning on doing a whole lot of study and getting  bit of my assignment of writing 2000 words on Advocacy out of the way.

By the way- I got 100% in my first bioscience quiz, 90% in the second, and I have also just found out I got 9.5/10 (A grade) in my first psychology assignment in APA formatting involving summarizing 5 articles!

BioScience Lab #5

Todays Lab for my Bioscience paper was all to do with blood typing and using the centrifuge machine to work out the haematocrit levels of our blood.  We pricked our fingers and then proceeded to collect our blood into two different capillary tubes in which one was for blood typing and the other for the centrifuge machine.

For the blood typing we were required to use slides to put a drop of water, blood and then the anti A,B, and D (Rhesus value) solution to figure out what it was- as I already knew what mine is I was able to see if I could produce the same result- and with time... I did! It looks pretty cool, and this lab was insanely awesome!

And a bonus photo of me and my Student Nursing uniform (minus the badge- at the time it was taken we didn't have them yet)

MAMMA MIA!

Last night I went to the stage show at The Civic Theatre in Auckland city to see MAMMA MIA!

The first time I have ever been to a proper theatre show, it was just absolutely amazing, and so well done! Very very awesome night! We were seated up above the stage at the top! Brilliantly done, and made even better by the fact that I actually knew one of the dancers/singers as he was in my class last year at school!

Clinical Orientation

I know, I said I would write this afterwards, but I have been busy writing assignments and sorting out this week- I have two proper days of clinical coming up as of tomorrow :)

It was a very different experience than where I work, same level of care given but in a different way, with it being just. Different. I am use to working with pretty much all staff over the hospital where I work and being able to interact with the other wings and stuff.  I think I will enjoy being in this placement though because it is different, I wont be a strict caregiver, but I will be learning both skills within caregiving and within Nursing.  Learning different skills within a different setting.