Nov. 21, 2011

Exam day in Community Health.  I went into it feeling pretty good, felt semi-good afterwards, and felt awful by the time we got through the group exam.  The wording of the questions were kind of awkward, and the answers were worded kind of awkward, too, so that made it kind of difficult to pick the best answer.  Oh that, and there was a bank of 45 questions, but the test was only 40, so when we did the group exam, each of us had different questions.  Then, when we had some disagreements among us and we asked our instructor to advise us on how to think about each question, all she would say was, "Well, we talked about that in class".  Not so, actually.  There was a lot of information she skipped over and said we could read on our own.  As awful as it sounds, I am losing faith in her as an instructor.

Overall, though, the scores came back pretty decent, which was surprising.  The instructor didn't really seem thrilled about some suggestions to read the questions from the test bank BEFORE putting the test together, to make sure they make sense and aren't difficult to understand.  Oh well.

I spent my lunch watching the wound care videos and reading the transcripts on how to do each wound care activity, and then took a quiz after lunch.  Not too difficult--for the most part pretty straight forward.  Then, we really didn't have much to do for lab--practice removing sutures and staples, and get fitted for sterile gloves.  So, it was nice to get out of there early.

I spent the rest of the afternoon finishing up my current event presentation note card and relaxing, which was very nice.

We're winding down on time before Thanksgiving, so I am shifting gears into the people in my life I care most about.  Truly, I am thankful for these people everyday, but today I would like to share my gratitude for my siblings.  We don't get to talk very often, but when we do talk, we talk for a long time and just sort of pick up where we left off--as if not very much time has passed.  It's so interesting to have a relationship like that.  But, I am grateful I have that with my brother and my sister, both of whom are amazing people that I can always count on no matter what.