Yesterday I had orientation from 9am-3:30pm. Talk about a long day! We recieved information on EVERYTHING. They even did a small discussion on options for us to continue our education AFTER our Master's!! Um helloooooo? I need to get through this year first!! Haha. We got papers and packets and words and explanations and answers to questions and stress for our brains, etc etc etc. We did learn that we will be traveling to San Antonio, TX from May 23rd-28th for the Annual Nurse Midwifery Conference which is pretty cool. What's not so cool is that it's another cost to tack on to my already lengthly graduate school bill! Today I just have graduate school orientation from 2pm-4pm which is followed by wine and cheese (finally, things are looking up! :). I am glad today is short because I have oodles of work to do before Friday comes.
Friday will be the first day of my health assessment class. This week we are learning about the male and female genitalia (even though we will be primarily dealing with females as midwives, we still have to learn basic assessment of males). I will then have the lab portion of this class on Saturday (stinks, doesn't it?). It is because I normally have it on Monday but because Monday is Labor Day, we had to fit it in then......poo. So, during lab on Saturday we will be practicing actual male and female assessments such as breast, pelvic, testicular, and prostate exams! Nothing like jumping in right away! Mike made the comment to me--'uhh how do you know what you're doing already?' (my feelings exactly). And I laughed and said, 'Oh you know, I'll learn it all Friday and I'll be an expert by Saturday!' Hahahaha...well, let's hope. It's pretty cool though because Georgetown brings in actors and actresses who actually show us how to do the exams on their own personal bodies. Therefore, we won't be practicing on each other (thank goodness) or on dummies, we'll actually get real human, hands on experience. Pretty cool isn't it? (Although most of you might think, how can one get excited about this?? haha)
Tomorrow marks the first day of class. I have pathophysiology from 9a-1p. This is the one class I am nervous about because I had a hard time getting into it during undergrad. Luckily I will have most of my prep work done for Friday's health assessment class that I will be able to review tomorrow's patho class on Thursday. That is becauseThursday is my off day!!!! Atleast for the month of September until clinicals start. Technically it shouldn't be considered an off day but a 'catch up on your work/study' day (I'm sure mom and dad will enjoy that name change :)
Well, I am going to begin studying the female genitalia!! wooo hooo! Keep me in your prayers; this month is going to be intense!
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