I found this video very inspirational, and a great mood modifier.
Let me know what you think.
Bending with the Wind
The Winds of Change are blowing in my life yet again.
This is going to be a month of transitions for me. It definitely looks like I will officially resume the role of full-time student sometime in the middle of this month. I’ve already actually started classes, and so far the transition is kicking my butt. It will probably get better once I’m not working since I’ll have more time to study.
It’s not easy taking three classes and working full time, especially when I’m all out of sorts emotionally. I’ve been having a hard time with the whole thing with my employer, mostly because I wish they had listened to me and started processing my paperwork when I asked them to, but I’m getting over it.
I have always been a firm believer that all things eventually work themselves out, and you’ll fare better if you allow yourself to bend with the wind, instead of letting it break you. So while I am kind of distressed and a tad pissed off, and definitely nervous about what the future holds, I am also looking at this as a challenge, as the beginning of new things, as a new door to a future that may bring me a lot of pleasant surprises, and I have resolved to live through it to the fullest. But if I seem a little out of sorts over the next few weeks, please bear with me, change is never easy.
Quote of the Day… and other stories
Because all health care treatment and decisions are made based on the data you gather during assessment, it is paramount that your assessment be factual and complete.
Jarvis, C (2008). Physical Examination & Health Assessment
No pressure there, no pressure whatsoever!
So classes have started with a bang! I am currently taking three classes at Temple as a non-matriculated student. I’m in “Health Assessment for the RN”, “Community Health”, and “Nursing Research”. They are all for the most part online but I will have to show up at Campus a few times this semester for one of them, and I have to be online for live classroom sessions for the other class. So far so good, except that I spent the last four days in Kentucky enjoying wonderful company, pork steaks and some fine Kentucky bourbon, and therefore didn’t get much work done.
This morning I’m trying to get caught up on my studying because I work two on, one off, two on starting tomorrow, so I need to get ahead of the game. The quote above is from my Health Assessment textbook, and it hit me hard enough that I just had to post it. It’s not new knowledge, just the way that it’s phrased kind of makes me break into a small sweat when I consider how often practitioners forget this and kind of skim over the details in their assessment. Makes me squirm.
I’m currently reading, during my ever shrinking free time, the book How Doctors Think
What else is new… Family Guy seasons 1, 2, 4, and 5 are now in my possession – Yay! Thanks Rick. Now I just need seasons 3 & 6, to watch during my ever shrinking free time.
Happy 40th Birthday to the Mouse
So this is a totally random post, but I thought, given my avid devotion to the field, that it would be negligent on my part not to say Happy Birthday to the computer mouse. It is 40 years today since the computer mouse was first revealed to what would become devout and adoring masses. On 9 December 1968 hi-tech visionary Douglas Engelbart first used a mouse to demonstrate novel ways of working with computers.
Thank you Douglas, and thank you mouse, you have changed my life.
Here’s a more detailed tribute: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7768481.stm
It’s 10pm – The Phillies Just Won the World Series
And I watched it happen on TV, and I don’t even care about baseball.
Damn.
Our block is going crazy!
I am GLAD I’m not working tonight, it’s going to be a madhouse in the ER tonight.
CONGRATULATIONS Phillies!
