Happy New Year!

so it is 1.1.11

Congratulations to my cousin JV and his wife Karina!! Welcome to the family my dear nephew, Kayden Jave!! awesome birthdate ^_^

i wasn't able to complete the 1st round of turbofire due to my hectic schedule.. i almost screwed up my semester trying to catch up to my case logs.. o__O .. so i'll try again this time. i entered the schedule on my calendar alongside the syllabi of my classes.. so now an hour is set aside everyday. hopefully i stick to it. xD

new faster pace for clinical rotations: the fast track of the ER. oh goodness. 12hr shifts.. patient history/physical/diagnosis/treatment every 10-20minutes.. multitasking and juggling. walking really fast. my brain is mush. lol.. but it's a really good learning experience. i see a broad variety of patients!! it is a challenge i am willing to accept. i will get better. which means, focusing on my studies is a priority. so far i haven't done it.. i am already behind in class.. ugh.. lol. trying to catch up now.. on this snowy evening. thank goodness classes have been canceled for tomorrow. need to be productive...

only thing i accomplished was this..
Alcohol Abuse - NP


lol.. i have hundreds of pages to catch up on.. since my ADD is kicking in.. i'll work on my TYPHON patient logs to track my NP clinicals.. woOHoo.. so fast track ER .. in a span of 12hrs.. i've seen 36 patients.. so i have to log all of those.. LMAO.. wat a faiL. ugh and i'm still trying to finish up from last week's 12 pts in the slower fast track.. =( .. one thing i learned on Monday.. don't forget to eat and take a break.. gosh.. brain gets tired fast.. and all that brisk walking from room to room physically tiring. this is why i am conditioning myself via turbofire.. slow and steady improvements.. stepping it up a notch. there are higher expectations now. i'm hoping i dont get kicked out of the program.. LOL.. anyways.. back to studying..

feel free to leave comments or email me anything.. suggestions welcome. thanks ^__^

TYPHON!!!

Heads Up.. Finding Preceptors

soo heads up to all NP students, just so you know, since I wasn't aware of this until recently, we have to arrange our preceptors by ourselves. The school doesn't set it up for you like when we were in nursing school/undergrad. We must go search for a NP or physician willing to train us.. hahaha.. they are out there. It's just a matter of finding one that's free, since there are other students asking for them...

start asking your advisors how your program works, and what are the acceptable types of preceptors for your specific program.

for example. I'm allowed to arrange my clinicals in my place of work as long as it's not the floor I currently work in. It's almost like a mini-interview for internships and selling yourself. Start searching early.. i'm allowed to ask NPs and physicians.. I will work my way up to physicians as soon as I am comfortable enough with conducting a thorough H&P and presenting a diagnosis..

start networking, getting ur name out there.. i start my practicum in the fall of 2010, but i started now... and then searching will start all over again in the summer for spring 2011, etc..

check out VA clinics, urgent care centers, etc.. if they don't have a position, ask them if they have another institution that they would recommend.. don't give up..

aight that's it for now.. back to working on my case study, email me for questions.. good luck to everyone ^__^

things to do over the summer before clinical rotations:

BLS recert
ACLS initial
Master Clinical Skills & Physical Diagnoses --> be comfortable with H&P
review medications, labs, etc
STUDY !!!

spend time with my loved ones.. ^___^

pAniC MoDE?!

Everything that could've gone wrong went wrong!

Just as I was finishing up chapter 19. Word crashed. I was like.. wat the heck?! it froze? you know that spinning beach ball on the mac. I didn't want to do a Force Quit so I let it sit for 10 minutes. Nothing. The last save was about 15 minutes ago, which was 2 slides.. ARGH.. maybe auto recovery would pick it up? I have to continue with my work.. so i force quit..

auto recover picked up where i left off, and i saved a copy of it.. as i'm scrolling down, i see the formatting is frozen. text-wrapping is stuck from the previous page. there is no picture there, but word thinks there is one. i tried copying and pasting the file to a new blank document but it just said that it's unable to save file - not enough memory. wAT?! everything is in read only mode?! wat the heck...

my office databases are also corrupt. they can't be found.. so i begin the process of uninstalling. meaning. deleting pLists and preferences, microsoft user data, etc. ugGh.. in the meantime.. i scramble to go to my iMac and see if the word document can be salvaged. nope. faiL. that fiLe is corrupt. and my MS office on the MBP is messed up when it froze. uGH... i decided to ditch chapter 19 and move on to chapter 20. i didn't know how to recover that file aside from starting all over.. i don't have time.. it's 4pm already!

6pm: i decided to start printing my other notes from chapters 12-18. at the same time, i'm going back and forth between my iMac and my macbook pro with the rolling office chair, one desk to the next, back and forth.. i'm multi-tasking..

730pm: warning on the printer. no black ink. both the 220 and 221. wtf?! i'm like great!! ugH.. hMM still early, i can make it to staples.. lemme just make sure.. if we have paper.. NOPE, none either.. perfect... so i jump into the shower.. 8pm out the door off to staples.. i'm very picky about my paper. 98 bright, 22lb. normally i'd go thicker, but i'm broke. i have no job. the ink is my priority right now. they finally have the Canon 220 combo pack in stock. last one just for me. i took it. $50. instead of $60 for 3 individual ones. got the multi 221 pack also. another $50. got some colored pens too.. they didnt have the ones i normally get, but i'll try these. hopefully, these will last me. they also seem brighter, and livelier. as long as they're the anti-check fraud pens from Uni-Ball. i'm ^__^ i only use the green ink, but they never sell them in bulk so i have to buy the pack of colors.. LOL.. sigh, at least i think this time, these colors look like they're legible..

840pm: back to the house. dragged the box of paper down the basement. installed the ink cartridges. back to work... thank you natural keyboard. eases some of the pain from all the typing i've been doing all week. @__@. i have a feeling, CTS is gonna be torture this year..

1130pm: figured out how to fix the corrupt word file. convert it to RTF by using save as. i figured, it simplifies the format, right? maybe it'll remove that weird text wrapping. i tried it out. then copy and paste that to a blank word doc. hAZZAH! fixEd! i didn't need to start all over.. thank gooodness.. that was over 6 pages worth of notes.. and i still had a while to go

230am: finally finished.. apparently, i tend to elaborate on a lot of things. 6 pages ended up as 16 pages.. DONE!

uGh.. time to study. read my notes. technically doing those notes 12-20, i've been studying. essentially, i really have to review chapters 4-11 more than anything. right?

i have take the exam sunday morning. so i can read for research.. and do my research hw and quiz by monday.. i have class on tuesday.. @__@ ugh.. this is NuTs..

Disorders of the Immune Response

The Cell

smallest functional unit necessary for life. so tiny, but sooooo very important..

why do we go over this every single year?!

it's because most of the disease processes are initiated at the cellular level and from there a disease can affect an organ, particular tissue type, or even the entire organism...

they are responsible for processing our food, turning it into NRG (energy, get it? lol), synthesize complex molecules, and of course replication if they are capable of doing so..

so here we go..
Cell and Tissue Characteristics

Advanced Pathophysiology

so this is a preview of pretty much of what's taking most of my time, why I'm not working anymore. why i'm so jittery, and anxious, such a spazz. so this is chapter 7.. LOL.. i'm suppose to have chapters 4-20.. i only have 4-13 complete.. i have a long way to go.. before my first exam that covers 17 chapters this Saturday.. uGH.. passing is an 80. not to mention the case studies that were also done.. LOL.. a lot of typing.. rAH..

PathoCh7 Genetic Disorders



Case60 Down Syndrome

EKG Review

how to read EKGs. my notes from the Basic Arrhythmia Course during orientation

Basic Arrhythmia Rules

Volume 2 - Last of the Unfinished Med Surge Chronicles

Preview Vol2 Gastrointestinal

Grad SchooL

back in schooL.. lol.. which means..

finding more creative ways of studying to keep me going.. hahaha.. maybe i'll repost my study guides.. LOL.. should be interesting.

Here's the fiRst one.

Preview Vol1 Genitourinary