It's all good

Semester is all but done. I've gotten an A in clinicals and though I haven't taken my final in med/surg, I should have a B in that class. So...big exhale of relief!! Just to brag on my class. 30 of us started this, and 30 are still there. There has never been a class that everyone passed and stayed together. I am blessed with a lot of really smart, able fellow students. I know this summer may cause some to falter, but they are really a good bunch, and the nice thing is, there is no one in the class I will be disappointed to find in my clinical group. Sure I like some better than others, but there is no one I actively dislike. On to OB/Peds. Now I can start obsessing on that.

Cheering from the cheap seats

Boy, someone must have gotten good and pissed, because we had our summer schedules today. The only things I have left to take are Advanced Med Surg and OB/Peds. I was hoping for Med Surg in the summer because it's harder than OB/Peds and I wanted to get the worst out of the way so I can have an easier semester and focus on NCLEX. It makes for a really crappy summer, but if I can take my ex husband for 10 years, I can surely handle a brutal 10 weeks. Nope. Didn't happen. I am in the 1/3 of the class who got OB/Peds. I was disappointed at first, but then, since I'm helpless to do anything else about it, I'm looking on the bright side. We'll have 10 students in my clinical group. I don't live in a large city, and there is an excellent childrens' hospital 70 miles away. If we're lucky, they'll be 2-3 pediatric patients for all of us to work with. We do have lots of babies though.

When you live in a low income, poorly educated area, there are always lots of babies. I guess since none of them work, and using meth doesn't take up all of their time, they have babies. I may be a little bitter because (through my volunteer stuff) I just attended a termination hearing where the rights of a parent, for the 3rd time, were terminated. Her justification for keeping THIS one was because she is now clean. She got arrested for possession of shit to make meth, and she has to stay clean to avoid jail. That is the incentive she needed to stay clean. 3 kids didn't make the cut, but God forbid she spends another night in jail!! Plus, in my little corner of Paradise, with a population of less than 60,000, we have had 8 battered babies since the 1st of the year. Folks, that is a shitload. I'm not talking bruises here. These are critically injured kids. Enough of that. I could go on all day about this.

Anyway, I am now officially enrolled, and my financial aid is a done deal. A big shout out to whoever had the hissy fit and made this happen.

Rant O Rama

I take my final on the 4th of May. That is less than 4 weeks away. I will be enrolled full time in summer school. This isn't voluntary. I have to have student loans. I've applied for student loans. My program still has not enrolled us for summer school, so my loans are being denied, since I'm not enrolled. What kind of shit is that? 3/4 of my class receive financial aid, and we'll all in the same boat. When asked why this is happening, we get a bunch of crap answers. How hard would it be to just enroll us? They don't even have to tell us what we're taking or what hours. Heaven knows they've never had a problem putting TBA in the past on our classes. That would take care of all of these problems, but NOOOOOO. Just too inconvenient for them regardless of the hardships it is going to place on the students. I'm in the minority that I don't have to work, or have small children at home. Others are having to make child care arrangements and job schedules, and they won't give us a hint as to when we'll find out where we're going to be. That's bullshit. They keep whining they have to hire staff. Who's problem is that? It won't affect us. They have X number of students for X number of clinical spots. They don't have to announce who the instructors are. Just enroll us. I know there are more students than spots so I suppose that makes them feel we'll suck up whatever they dish out (and they are right...we will), but cut us some slack. This is ridiculous. Rant over.

Spring break was really fun. My two nephews came up and we went to "only big city in Indiana" and stayed downtown and spent a few days there. I made sure we had stuff to do morning, noon, and night. They really had fun. Plus, if anyone wants to laugh their heads off, go see "Blades of Glory". Yes, it's stupid, but so funny. Really, really, really funny.