Week 2 as a Level 2 Nursing Student

This week was busy as anticipated with meetings, a nursing clothing sale, presentations, clinical!!!!, and doing my homework ahead of time in anticipation for our leadership retreat with St. John. However, I pulled through like a champ!

So Monday was long because I had a 3.5 hour break between my 1 hour patho seminar and the CRNBC SR meeting, but it was spent selling clothing to the other levels.

On Tuesday I had my presentation for PBL and it was good but draining, too, because I shared some really personal experiences on loss and grief. Skills and techniques class was good this week, it really gave us a good idea of some potential problems we could see in our patients post-op. I think that was the best sim lab class I've had so far in my time at BCIT!

Wednesday was the science-y day filled with Patho and Microbi. I'm still trying to get used to the varying teaching styles between the two instructors and I'm not sure what to expect for microbi, but I'm kind of worried because sciences have never really been my strong suit. Haha.

Clinical this week was awesome! I'm still trying to figure out what my role is in this new semester. There will be a lot more skills learned, but we can't do them yet because we haven't learnt them in class. So we were all kind of floundering around, trying to figure out what to do, kind of twiddling our thumbs, trying to look busy. I did all this research for my patient only to find that he'd been discharged that morning!!!! So it was a bit disappointing, especially because he seemed really funny and nice when I met him the day before.

This week is going to be dedicated to reviewing microbi and patho! Oh, and my first PBL paper is due next week, so that will also be done!