Jennifer Vitti

Well I DON’T! Yes it was snowing this morning. Granted it was more flurries and nothing stuck, but still! NO SNOW ALLOWED! Yeesh! So let’s see I have lots to tell you…

First of all I am done with Senior Seminar! My presentation went okay. I was really nervous, so I’m sure it wasn’t perfect and I did not understand my paper as well as I would have liked in order to feel confident, but I did it I got through it and I passed and since it’s a pass/fail class I’m all set with that. My anatomy test went well too (I think). I came out feeling pretty good about it. Usually when I feel pretty good about it I am pretty accurate, so we’ll see. I’m nervous though as to why she hasn’t put the grades up on Blackboard yet. That might mean that not everyone did very well or she just hasn’t finished grading them yet, which would be frustrating because I want to know! I have that class at 12:40 so we’ll see!!

Statistics class was cancelled this morning because my professor called in sick, so that was nice to have the morning off and I got a lot of work done, which is GREAT! I love being productive in the morning.

There may be some changes coming to my blog soon. Nothing too drastic, you may have already noticed that some things were neatened up courtesy of my boyfriend. I am hoping to add some cool plug-ins that are appropriate and fit with my page, update my about-me page, do some more neatening… that sort of thing. And as the semester winds down I hopefully will be able to blog more yay!

Speaking of blogging one other important thing I am going to add that a lot of nurses and nursing students (and other people in the medical profession with blogs) have is a little disclaimer in relation to HIPAA. I know I’m not really under HIPAA yet because I haven’t started, but I will soon and I just want people to know that although I have mentioned what school I will be attending I will not be mentioning any names of clinicals, patients names will be changed, other facts will be creatively changed, I may even tell stories of other people and you readers will not be able to tell. I think this is really important not only to cover myself so I don’t get in trouble, but HIPAA is really important for patients and the people involved. So yeah… even though I want to share my endeavors will everyone and have somewhere where I can let off some emotion and steam it shouldn’t come at the expense at other people’s privacy. So hopefully a little disclaimer will be added to my site as well!

So what’s up for my last few weeks of school? I have a film critique due this week, then I’m going home for EASTER this weekend (I’m so excited and I’m also going to visit Regis on Saturday, which will be awesome), a reproductive system practical and a stats exam next week, two presentations and my last film critique the third week, and a stats exam, a pchem exam, and a research paper due my last week of classes. Then I of course have study days and 3-4 finals. Then senior week and GRADUATION! 39 days…it’s crazy!

Gosh I’m all over the place today… I think it is because I have not blogged in a week or so and I have so much I want to say 2 more things then I’ll leave you to untangle my post in your brains…

I didn’t get a chance to tell you guys what I got to do at my shadowing two weeks ago-I mean I was only observing, but these were some of the things I saw: Implanon put in, 1 week old premie check-up who was 4 weeks premature, a lot of sick kids (a lot of flu), a little girl who was having chest pain and it turned out to be breast buds (aww), kid with a swollen parotid gland, girl with a pseudotumor, and some regular physicals (mostly of young kids). Really interesting day! Did another shadowing last Friday. Another good day. I even got to participate a little! I held a baby’s legs down while two nurses gave him shots (one in each thigh). I felt important  and I was very proud of myself because one of the nurses came out to the nursing station and asked anyone who was around if they wanted to help and I immediately jumped at it. I thought I might be shy, but I was totally all over it. That was a good confidence booster even though it was a simple job. I also got to listen to a lot of office gossip that I did not really get to experience last week. To be honest I was not impressed. I found it very tacky that doctors were making fun of patients, other people were saying oh I don’t like this person, blah blah blah. Come on people! I got enough of this in highschool and even more of it in college… I don’t want any more of it when I graduate. I mean I guess there will always be some, but it frustrated me a little bit that they would be that unprofessional. Oh well… it hasn’t deterred me from anything I was just a little surprised that’s all. Anyway, I am not shadowing this Friday because of the holiday, but then I will shadow the next two Fridays after that. I can’t wait to see what else I will have in store.

Last thing is more of a negative update… no new info from Regis other than the fact that they have deposited my deposit. I was hoping once I got accepted things would be hopping (it is like this for other schools), but it’s not unfortunately. I think it’s because with Regis’s rolling admission they are still waiting to see if they get any other applicants before they send out any more info to students who are going. Or they’re waiting for people to make their decision. I would think we would definitely get SOME info this month though. The acceptance letter said we would get info about “uniform fitting, health forms, and CPR information” SOON <– whatever that means. Probably because that is stuff you shouldn’t do last minute and some people may need to plan ahead type of thing. Then registration info will be in late spring and orientation info will be mailed in late July. Somewhere in there I also have to figure out Financial Aid. I already did the FAFSA, but I might have to wait for registration to do the other part of it (Regis has a little form to fill out) because it asks how many credits I will be taking and I obviously have no idea yet. Hopefully I will get info soon. I’m just too anxious!

Alright wow long entry. Don’t worry not all my entries should be this long, or at least definitely not this crazzzzyyyy!

39 days!

~love always~

Jen