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Nursing School week 3/#7
This was only a "kinda" week--I only had classes on Thursday and Friday. I was mostly good over the weekend (through Wednesday) and did my reading for class, etc. I also had some time to work in the garden (taking out tomato plants, largely) and get some of the Fall clothes out of the attic. Super exciting, right? I also spent most of one afternoon figuring out my homework for the 2nd half of the semester. The school uses Moodle (an on-line learning/management environment) to give us most of our course information. I'm not really crazy about Moodle to begin with, but I think my issues have as much to do with the way the instructors use it as with the program itself. Basically, for each course our assignments are posted under the week number. The syllabus had a schedule --- "In Week 2, we're covering assessment of the newborn: Topic 6 and 7." So then I have to open up the Topic Objectives for each of Topics 6 and 7 to find out what the reading assignment is, and whether anything else is due. Sometimes the week numbers don't line up between courses--one course doesn't assign a number to Thanksgiving week, and the other one does. Sometimes the Topic numbers don't align with the actual content listed in the Syllabus. So, anyway, it took a few hours to go through the Maternal/Newborn and Mental Health courses to figure all of this out, get it into my calendar, and get all the dates and times onto our calendar in the kitchen.
On Thursday we learned about blood disorders (hemophilia, anemia, thalessemia) and neoplastic disorders (ie: cancer). On Friday we learned about infectious diseases and vaccinations, including a class debate about whether vaccines should be mandated by the government or not. (The general consensus in our class: no the government shouldn't mandate them, but everyone who can get vaccinated should get vaccinated, and educating patients/families is the best way to help this happen.)
In our Community Health class on Thursday the remaining groups presented their community assessment projects. I know I was wicked stressed out about this project several weeks ago--I'm so glad we already presented ours and didn't have it hanging over our heads until the end of the semester! And we got our grades for the project--we scored very near 100%, which was awesome (and relieves my beginning-of-semester fears about failing a 1-credit required class because I was having so much trouble with the quizzes).
So, that was my week! It looks cold and drizzly for the weekend here, so I'm glad we got some garden take-out done last weekend. I have 3 exams next week, so now I'll try to be good and study for them.
On Thursday we learned about blood disorders (hemophilia, anemia, thalessemia) and neoplastic disorders (ie: cancer). On Friday we learned about infectious diseases and vaccinations, including a class debate about whether vaccines should be mandated by the government or not. (The general consensus in our class: no the government shouldn't mandate them, but everyone who can get vaccinated should get vaccinated, and educating patients/families is the best way to help this happen.)
In our Community Health class on Thursday the remaining groups presented their community assessment projects. I know I was wicked stressed out about this project several weeks ago--I'm so glad we already presented ours and didn't have it hanging over our heads until the end of the semester! And we got our grades for the project--we scored very near 100%, which was awesome (and relieves my beginning-of-semester fears about failing a 1-credit required class because I was having so much trouble with the quizzes).
So, that was my week! It looks cold and drizzly for the weekend here, so I'm glad we got some garden take-out done last weekend. I have 3 exams next week, so now I'll try to be good and study for them.