What a week!

First week of 3rd semester is jam-packed with information and assignments. We had Med-Surg class on Monday (5 hr. lecture) a computer training at clinical site until 5pm, Tues., Wed., and Thurs. were full lab days (8-5) on Medical-surgical nursing, and Friday was OB Lecture (3 hr.). It is lots of exciting new material and I am enjoying learning all the new things and starting to feel like I have some real skills as a nurse, but it is overwhelming! I have been trying to stay well rested and get my exercise in but so far has not worked out well. I am hoping to nail down a schedule for that by this coming week. The big blessing here is we have a 3 day weekend due to labor day! Yay!! haha. Although it will be used to catch up from last week and try to get ahead, it is nice to be able to slow down a little. Next week is the all day OB skills lab and the following week I start my clinical rotations in the hospital! I am very excited as I stated! I just have to keep myself afloat right now. I will be honest and tell you I cried after I got home Wed. night and realized I still had two days left of the week. It was a small mental break down from lack of sleep and brain overload is all. I did question whether I could do this or not for a sec, then realized I was being silly! Of course I can!! I want this more than anything right now and will let nothing stand in my way!! I have made it this far and I will do this!! [frequent self pep talks are a must now! :)] So just be prepared and have a support system set up. It is possible! Many have done this before us and many will after us!! :) Back to the assignments! Keep up the good work and remember it's all worth it!!

MLM