Arrhythmias, Dave Matthews Band, and...more arrthymias!

EKGs. Oh, how I hate thee.

They don't seem as difficult now as they started out, of course. I really am getting a handle on reading the EKGs; the only real problem left is to make sure I remember which leads go where. But I want to do well in High Acuity, so I'm determined to really learn this stuff and do well.

This class is the last bit of classroom time that we have. During May we have an online class, and then in June/July/August we have the 3 12-hour shift a week thing. That means we'll do 12 hours each on Tuesday, Wednesday, & Friday. I can't even begin to tell you how relieved I am about that. After carrying so many hours a week and having so much work to do at home, it's going to seem like a break to just...work. Just to go and be a nurse. To take care of patients and put things in charts.

I hope I do all right on the exam today. I really did study my butt off last night.

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Last night, Jorajo called me from the Raleigh Dave Matthews Band concert! She didn't say anything (there was no way she could've heard me over the crowd; I've tried doing that for LJ voice posts and had to push buttons by memory), but she held the phone up--all the way through the Sojourn of Arjuna interpolation of #41! That's my SONG! <3333333 Jorajo. <3

CANNOT WAIT UNTIL MAY 2ND.

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I am having a Diet Code Red and thinking about multifocal PVCs while tinkering with my Dreamwidth colors. FUN TIMES.

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN

We had that cardiology exam today. Guess who made a 91 on it? OH YES THAT'S RIGHT ME.

*dances*

I interpreted every. single. rhythm. strip. correctly. I'm so excited I could pop. This means even though I don't particularly like cardiology, I might not suck at it which is a definite plus for someone who wants to go into trauma. Let's face it, there's a little bit of everything in trauma.

After that, we had the final "party" for the Healthy Ager program, which means I am finished with that. We no longer have the enormous paperwork pre-plan that goes along with Friday clinicals. I have a formal care plan to do for tomorrow's patient, then we have hemodynamics next week along with an exam and a concept map (which we will probably do for Jennifer's formal care plan patient). Then a final, and honestly THAT'S IT. That is all in High Acuity and then it becomes hella clinicals all summer after May's online classes. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel! And it isn't a train! And if it IS a train, I WILL KICK ITS ASS, SHOVE IT OUT OF MY WAY, AND GET OUT OF THE DAMN TUNNEL.

So tonight I brought home Mexican food for supper and then we just hung out. Ganon played on his new swingset in the front yard, then played in the back yard while we just sat & watched. Relaxing. Now I'm going to finish this up and get some sleep.

Wow. This is a pretty incredible version of Crush. I would absolutely make out with Jeff Coffin for the way that man plays the saxophone.