hello again

Just a quick post, like any others I add for the next few months will also probably have to be.

I'm just past halfway in my first semester of nursing school. Everything's going really well, and the program is turning out to be all that I expected and more. It's been a really great confirmation that this is the right thing for me to be doing right now.

I've been pretty busy, but I've been able to find moments and windows of time to relax and recuperate along the way too. My five classes are spread across Mon through Thu, which *sounds* like a nice 3-day weekend every week. Actually, though, almost all of my Fridays so far have been filled with homework and group projects etc.

My classes are:

Pharmacology - all about different medications and how they move around in, are processed by, exert their effect on, and leave the body.

Fundamentals w/lab - All the core "nursy" stuff like checking people's blood pressure, putting in catheters, and analyzing poop. Ah, the glamour of being human...

Communication - just what it says, but focused on nursing. How to communicate effectively and therapeutically within the nurse-patient relationship, in contrast with social communication.

Multicultural/Community Health - Again, pretty much self-explanatory. Nursing that focuses on the community as a whole and on how the community as a whole affects the health of families and individuals. Nursily kicking ass on a large scale.

Nursing Theory - Discusses a number of different ways of thinking about the four domains of nursing (the areas to which nursing science applies): Health, Person, Environment, and Nursing itself.

All good stuff, in unequal ways.

I'm applying to be the Web Coordinator on the Board of the Student Nurses' Association @ UP. If I get it I'll be responsible for our facebook account, our blog, and some portion of email communications to/from the Board.