Monday, October 3, 2011

Sept. 27, 2011

Tuesday means what?!  Yep, you guessed it, Patho Quiz/Exam day!  Today was a quiz, the last quiz of the term!!  And guess what?  I just couldn't focus while studying.  I really hate it when I have a million other things on my mind and no matter how hard I try, I just can't stay interested and study.

So, needless to say, I felt really crappy about the quiz.  There were about 8 questions that I had to come back to.  Which was about 1/3 of the test.  I was able to reason through most of them.  I find that if I look at each answer and write out why I think it's wrong, it is a better way of doing the process of elimination, because I'm actually recalling information.  Blech, I just felt so bad about it though.

I couldn't even bring myself to look at the key the professor posts on the wall.  BUT -- I only missed one!!  Hooray for my reasoning skills and for my dumb luck for guessing!!

Lecture was on the sensory system, but once again, I struggled with staying focused.  Usually I can shift gears pretty easily, but I was fixated on how unprepared I felt for the test.  There is a lot to know about the sensory system, though, and it's all very intense.  It just blows me away how something so small can cause so many problems downstream.  I guess this shouldn't still amaze me, but it does.

This evening, I had my lab partner over so we could practice for our Physical Assessment exam.  We did pretty good.  She's really fast.  We have a 30-minute time limit to get a full head to toe assessment done.  She was consistently under 25 minutes, and I'm about 27 or 28 minutes.  We each did two run-throughs and will practice again on Thursday evening.  I'm not really nervous about doing the exam; I'm just worried I'm going to forget something big, like listening to the heart or something!

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