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I feel bored…

In reality, I have a lot of work to do but I would rather sit here agitated and restless than pick up a text book, or start writing a paper. There are so many projects I am supposed to be working on that I can barely wrap my mind around the amount of work involved. I just wish nursing school was easy.

*laugh*

I really need to buckle down though! I don’t have any clinical days until Tuesday, so I have no excuse not to work on the academic side of school. Our clinical days are matched up with our preceptor, so my schedule is completely dependent on her shifts. After working nights, she gets six days off, which she says she needs to “recover” from night shifts. So, right now, I am in the middle of those six shifts. You should have seen the look she gave me when I said I wouldn’t mind working a day shift two days after a nights shift. You would have thought she was looking through translucent skin and seeing wires and flashing lights underneath!

To be honest, I’m completely a night person. I had to flip my brain around to understand what she was thinking. I reminded myself of what I feel like after working two weeks of day shifts, and suddenly realized that I could really use six days to recover! I immediately understood.

I wish 100% night shift positions were available more often. If I see one, I think I will snatch it up! The reason they stopped offering them was because it’s rare for someone to like night shifts. Management found that if someone left that position, it was very difficult to find a replacement.

Anyway, here’s my agenda for today:

1.) Watch the View

2.) Play World of Warcraft

3.) Watch Beverly Hills 90210…increasingly aware of my procrastination

4.) Fiddle with my website–I’m in love with it! My thoughts will be similar to “Oh GOD why do I keep procrastinating?!?!?”

5.) More procrastinating.

6.) Accept that I need to get my ass in gear and start working on my learning contract. This includes learning and implementing a nursing framework (anyone know a good website on Parse’s “Human becoming theory?”), creating a library of journal articles on urology…among many other things.

7.) Rewrite my posts to our online seminar. Topics include interprofessional (non)cooperation, and patient independence. I spent hours doing this last night only to have what I wrote wiped off of cyberspace.

8.) Beg Richard to make me dinner while I watch TV from the new fall line up!

9.) Desperately create a topic and research it for my next clinical reflection. Perhaps this will be on the NG tube we inserted on a man who couldn’t speak english, but CLEARLY didn’t want the procedure. We inserted it anyway. The results were instant and drastic. The patient was overjoyed that he was feeling 100% better. But should we have inserted it when he kept shaking his head yelling “no, no, no, no!” I’m on the fence. Any thoughts?

10.) Play World of Warcraft and fiddle with my website before going to bed