I'll see you in the ICU!

Holy sleep-deprivation, Batman!

Alrighty, one down, one to go (tomorrow)

Since Friday, I have been sequestered in my 8x10 room (I might have bathed once or twice, I might have eaten once or twice) cramming my butt off for Med Surg and Pahtophysiology.

I'm lucky, at least, that med-surg coincided with pathophysiology's final; both finals have endocrine, diabetes, neurological disorders, in common.

While med-surg was all about nursing diagnoses and interventions, pathophys will focus more on details.

It's ok--I've got my notes all done up, and most of them printed up. I spent all day yesterday putting them together for pathophys, doing Sally's review questions (which I have never had time to do in the past, and always felt like I would have done better on her test if I had had the time to go thru them)

I feel pretty good about med-surg. I get a little confused with Diabetes Insipidus, and interventions for that, and hypo and hyper adrenal . I kept trying to really learn it, but in the end the mnemonic of JFK (who had Addison's disease--hypoadrenal) saying in his JFK voice "I need your sodium!" Silly, but it helped.

Anyway, I went to bed at 2 am, and got up at 4 to cram some more. My pathophys is tomorrow at 2:30 so I'll be able to get a little more sleep (I said "a little!")

Wish me luck!
I'll be home Saturday evening.
Yay!
:)

posted by sketchmonkey @ 8:14 AM