Nursing School week 3/#8
Oct. 13th, 2012 10:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pantsheadThis was a shorter week than last week! I had my 3rd exam in Pediatrics on Tuesday (it went fine), and then 2 exams on Wednesday. The school uses a testing company as a part of the curriculum. The testing company publishes its own books, which the school gives us. When you take their tests, it gives you feed back on what areas you should review. The tests are scored with a raw mathematical score and also a percentile score and a "proficiency level" (3 is best, 1 is not good, < 1 is very bad). The percentile is based on all takers of that particular test who are in similar degree programs (ie: Associate Degree in Nursing programs, for us). The school takes the percentile rank (not the mathematical score), and turns that into a score that's worth 5% of our course grade. I'm a little skeptical of this whole process, but I can't complain--I've gotten a proficiency level of 3 on all of them so far. However, my raw mathematical score has been in the low 80's...so I'm sort of thinking "what does it say about the test--or about nursing students--if a score of 82% puts me in the 98th percentile?!" Anyway, we took those two exams, and had our clinical evaluations with our instructors, and then we were done!
Thursday I mostly loafed around, went back up to the hospital to get my free flu shot, and worked in the garden a bit. Friday I did start doing some of the reading for the 2nd rotation, but I definitely should work more on that today! (Oh, the siren call of the internet...). On Sunday I'll be playing in the handbell choir at church for the first time in (I think) about 7 years. I used to sub for them pretty regularly, but my schedule at the Stage was always pretty wonky and I dropped off of the list. It is definitely an amateur group, but everyone (other than me) who's in it either sings in the choir or plays & teaches music. I haven't done anything musical since last playing with them (except for singing hymns with the congregation). My sight-reading was really rusty at the first rehearsal (2 weeks ago), but I did better this week.
Thursday I mostly loafed around, went back up to the hospital to get my free flu shot, and worked in the garden a bit. Friday I did start doing some of the reading for the 2nd rotation, but I definitely should work more on that today! (Oh, the siren call of the internet...). On Sunday I'll be playing in the handbell choir at church for the first time in (I think) about 7 years. I used to sub for them pretty regularly, but my schedule at the Stage was always pretty wonky and I dropped off of the list. It is definitely an amateur group, but everyone (other than me) who's in it either sings in the choir or plays & teaches music. I haven't done anything musical since last playing with them (except for singing hymns with the congregation). My sight-reading was really rusty at the first rehearsal (2 weeks ago), but I did better this week.
