Keep the LU Nursing class of 2010 in your thoughts and prayers:
Tomorrow: OB test, 7:40 am
Tuesday 4/28: Pharmacology ATI test, 12:30 pm
Wednesday 4/29: Medical/Surgical ATI test, 8:30 am
Thursday 4/30: OB ATI test, 10:30 am
Friday 5/1: Pharmacology FINAL
Monday 5/4: Medical/Surgical FINAL
Tuesday 5/5: Bible and OB FINALS
Done-ski.
It's so mean. 7 tests in a row.
ATI tests are like NCLEX practice tests (the NCLEX test is what you take after you graduate to get your nursing license). Our grades on the ATI tests count as a test grade in our classes. Grading for the ATI is divided into 3 levels, Level 1,2, and 3. If you get a Level 1, you take the average of all your test scores in the corresponding class and subtract 5 points; that becomes a test grade. If you get a Level 2 on the ATI, you average all of your previous tests grades, and that becomes your score. A Level 3, you add 5 points to your average.
For example, I have a 90% test average in my Med/Surg class from my 3 previous tests. If I get a Level 1 on the ATI, I'll take 90 minus 5 points, and my 4th test grade for the class will be an 85. If I get a Level 2, my 4th test grade will be a 90, because that's my current test average. If I get a Level 3, my 4th test score will be a 95. I'm not worried about this class, there's no time for that.
Why do I not have time to worry? Because the medicines I'm taking are suppressing my sense of worry and stress? Maybe, but no.
I've no time to think about Med/Surg because I'm worried about Pharm. If you read below, you'll see I only got a 72% on my last test, and I'm still trying to get over it. It's like a paper cut, and the thought of that test is the lemon juice. My average in that class is an 80.6666667% (OUCH! I found another paper cut!). So a Level 1 would put me at a new test average of about 79%. This would mean I'd have to at least pass my final (passing is a 76%) to pass the class. People don't generally do well on Pharm ATI. I was building a nice cushion with my test grades so I could handle a Level 1 on ATI, but last week's test blew that cushion right up, blew it into smitherines, outta the water, into oblivion. *POOF* - - - need I elaborate more?
*KA-POW*
I'll know where I stand with OB tomorrow. I'd like to get above an 85% on the test tomorrow. People generally do well on OB ATI.
Matthew 6:34 "Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself."
:)
Summertime Sweets
10 months ago
2 comments:
Dearest April,
WHAT A SCHEDULE!! I will be praying for you. May God grant that there be no more "paper cuts" and thoughts of lemon juice.
Do keep us updated as to how you are doing.
much love,
grandmom
Psalm 139:1-18
O Lord, Thou hast searched me and known me.
Thou dost know when I sit down and when I rise up;
Thou dost understand my thought from afar.
Thou dost scrutinize my path and my lying down,
And art intimately acquainted with all my ways.
Even before there is a word on my tongue,
Behold, O Lord, Thou dost know it all.
Thou hast enclosed me behind and before,
And laid Thy hand upon me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
It is too high, I cannot attain to it.
Where can I go from Thy Spirit?
Or where can I flee from Thy presence?
If I ascend to heaven, Thou art there;
If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, Thou art there.
If I take the wings of the dawn,
If I dwell in the remotest part of the sea,
Even there Thy hand will lead me,
And Thy right hand will lay hold of me.
If I say, "Surely the darkness will overwhelm me,
And the light around me will be night,"
Even the darkness is not dark to Thee,
And the night is as bright as the day.
Darkness and light are alike to Thee.
For Thou didst form my inward parts;
Thou didst weave me in my mother's womb.
I will give thanks to Thee, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
Wonderful are Thy works,
And my soul knows it very well.
My frame was not hidden from Thee,
When I was made in secret,
And skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth.
Thine eyes have seen my unformed substance;
And in Thy book they were all written,
The days that were ordained for me,
When as yet there was not one of them.
How precious also are Thy thoughts to me, O God!
How vast is the sum of them!
If I should count them, they would outnumber the sand.
When I awake, I am still with Thee.
We love you Squirt.
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