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I've been doing some school work while listening to A little life audiobook and I'm thinking of doing another two hours before turning in to bed to see if I get close to finishing. Two hours of a Little life, I wonder where I'll be by then in Jude's tortured life.
semester five grades
so, once again, I left this post too late and my classes have been deactivated online, so I can’t post my percentages or exam grades. oh well! I still have my final letter grades, so I’ll post those!
clinical: COMPLETE (this is a pass/fail course)
advanced relational practice (basically about communication and we also talked a lot about death and dying and end of life care): A-
advanced nursing skills (our lab class): B+
nursing care in crisis and complexity (your patient has this, what does that mean for nursing?): B
I am happy with all of my grades. I know they aren’t the best, but I worked really hard and I got the grades I need to. This semester was hard for me personally, not necessarily academically. I made a post a little while ago about my mental health, and I do plan to elaborate on that soon. anyway, the semester is over and I’ve had a pretty good break.
on to semester six!
My very first time using 3Ds Max to create a room.
I learnt how to build shapes and manipulate them to the shape I needed, as well as setting textures and lighting.
the vein of my existence
After two years, five semesters, and lots of anticipation, I can finally do IV starts! we worked on them over the past two weeks in lab (which was way slower than it needed to be, but whatever,) and then on Tuesday we got signed off to do them in practice after a successful start following the correct steps on a fake arm.
So far, one person in my clinical group has attempted an IV start. The site went interstitial when they tried to flush it, but it wasn’t really there fault. The patient was a hard start and had had another site go interstitial that morning. They had decreased sensation and almost complete loss of function on one side, so no one wanted to try and start it there. They were old and had bad veins in general, so it was pretty good for a first try I think. They found a veine, inserted correctly and got flash, were able to advance the catheter, the vein just blew. The only made one attempt because he had limited sites and a med that needed to be administered soon.
I haven’t had a chance to try yet, but all the nurses where I am working know that we just learned it and want to be signed off. In order to become certified we need to have three successful starts in practiced observed by our instructor or an RN. I’m excited!
Art Hub Final Project for my Interior Design 3 class.
The pictures in this post are of the first two presentation boards and the material board.
Here is the link of all four presentation boards and the full resolution picture of the material board.
I was grouped with two of my classmates. We were given the plans for the Zhongshan Building in Kuala Lumpur, and were tasked with choosing a Malaysian folktale to base our concept on.
We chose Mahsuri, a beautiful maiden who she moved to Langkawi from Siam in search of greener pastures. She had a husband who went to war. While he was gone, there were villagers who were jealous of Mahsuri’s beauty, and started a rumour that she was unfaithful. They conspired to kill her for her alleged infidelity. The methods they chose to kill her didn’t work, and Mahsuri told them to use her family’s keris to do so. They stabbed her with it, and instead of red, her blood ran white. In her last breath, she cursed Langkawi to have 7 generations of bad luck.
From that, my friends and I came up with Gossip as our concept, as that was what the villagers did. We decided to create a boardgame cafe that has pockets of seating where patrons can gossip while playing and eating. The bar area in the front of the space was created in so customers would be able to people-watch the people outside of the cafe.
Our colour scheme has both warm and cool colours. In the plan, it is shown that the inner spaces are colourful, and the exterior spaces (including the washrooms) are monotone, a decision made by my friends and I when we realised that the there is more to the truth that what is rumoured.
The style we chose was a cross between Mid-Century Modern and Scandinavian. The courtyard is almost entirely concrete, with the exception of metal chairs and greenery.
Zhongshan Building: Jalan Kampung Attap, 80 - 84, Jalan Rotan, 50460 Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan
day 3: what’s in your bag?
so, I’m not sure if this is talking about what’s in my school bag or my purse, so I’m going to talk about those things that are in both, and that I usually take with me to school.
things I always have (or try to have with me) in my bag at all times:
deodorant: always a good thing to have with you imo. I have sensitive skin and I can’t use deodorant that has aluminum in it, so I use an all natural deodorant that doesn’t have a lot of staying power. I feel like I’m an extra sweaty person, and I sweat off all my deodorant during the day and need to reapply. lol.
chapstick: I get chapped lips a lot, and if I don’t have it I regret it.
tylenol: headaches, cramps, whatever. it’s a useful thing to have.
a pen
your menstrual product of choice: sometimes, there are surprises. blood surprises are not the best kind of surprises. you can also give some to a friend in need if your product isn’t a menstrual cup or something like that.
a CPR mask with a one way valve: I never want to do CPR on someone without a mask. it’s pretty gross, and I don’t want to put my health and safety at risk like that. if you have CPR training, I recommend carrying some kind of barrier mask with a one way valve in case you are ever in the situation where you need to perform CPR.
phone charger: I have a battery pack that my dad got me for Christmas a few years ago, and it’s amazing. a good quality battery pack is an amazing investment in my opinion. it is so helpful, I can get up to four charges out of mine.
headphones: I take the bus a lot, and I love to listen to music or podcasts while I’m on the bus and between classes. I always miss my headphones if I don’t have them with me.
a book: I’ve recently gotten back into reading, and I love to have a book with me for on the bus or when I have a break between classes where I don’t need to get anything in particular done.
that’s everything I can think of right now. I hope this gives someone some ideas!
sometimes, i hate my body
I have my period right now, and I think this is the most painful period I’ve had in quite a while. I started having cramps on Monday, my period started Wednesday afternoon, and now it’s Saturday.
My periods have been pretty good the last little while, until this month I guess. I kind of want to use my heating pad, but I keep getting all hot and sweaty (hot flashes? fever?) from just sitting in my bed, and I don’t really want to get even more hot and sweaty. I want to shower today, but I just got up to go to the bathroom and do some stuff, and just that standing and walking around made my cramps so much work. I just took some more tylenol, but I guess I’ll be showering tonight.
Another thing that’s really annoying this period is I’m having a lot of hip and back pain. I get sciatica or a really similar pain on both (not always at the same time) on my periods, and this month it’s more on the left side. I also have a similar feeling shooting pain/nerve pain thing that feels like it’s going from my ovary down the front/inside of my thigh. Usually my right side is my worse side, but I guess my body just likes to mix it up.
One of the worst things about this back pain right now is the fact that I can’t get comfortable. My chair isn’t comfortable, lying on my back is terrible, lying on my side is uncomfortable, lying on my stomach is uncomfortable, sitting up in bed is uncomfortable. I might just use the heating pad on my back and suffer through being a sweaty ball of grossness.
Part of me wants to eat, and the rest of me is nauseous. I guess today will be a chilling in bed and trying to be productive and in control of my pain type of day. Mavis is hanging out with me and napping in my bed. I think she’s hot too because she’s all stretched out and is a very Long Cat. I’m so thankful that I have her right now and she can be here with me on days like this.
someone needs to remind me it’s winter now like every day apparently. for the past week it’s been cold(ish), and raining off and on; it rained the past two days. both of those days I left my house in the morning with no coat, only a cardigan sweater that doesn’t do up. today it was raining when I left clinical. I walked to the grocery store and go wet, walked back to the bus stop and got wet again, walked between busses when transferring busses, and walked to my apartement from the bus stop. it was cold. I don’t really want to do it again lol
