Thankful Thursday | 46, 45, 44…

This week, I am thankful:

that I’m down to 46 days in the semester

It felt momentous to get down to less than 50 this week.

for citation machines

This semester, I’ve had to do a fair amount of APA formatting and I am so so so grateful for the online tools that assist me in making my reference pages.

This type of work is obnoxiously tedious to me so the less time I have to spend on it, the better.

Also: in the big picture, all of the detailed rules about how to reference various types of sources….those are irrelevant for actual nursing practice.

Thankfully, the head of this semester has zero problems with us using technology to assist us with our reference pages. She’d rather have us use our brain space for things that actually do matter in nursing practice!

for mosses

There’s a trail that’s near my gym and my goodness, it has the best mosses. My walks there take extra long because I am always stopping to touch them.

Mosses have such a satisfying texture. 🙂

for baby leaves

Spring is coming! The world is starting to turn green!

that I don’t have clinical this weekend

For one week during the semester, we do a day of something called Clinical Reasoning at the college during the week. And whoever has clinical reasoning doesn’t have to go to clinical that week.

Mine was this week, which is extremely fortuitous timing for me. Why?

I have an exam early Monday morning, and this means I can spend my weekend studying (on my own and in groups) to prep for the exam. SWEET. 

that my heat has been breaking instead of my air conditioning

My boiler is on the fritz AGAIN. So when I woke up this morning, it was 60 degrees in my bedroom.

But honestly, I felt fine overnight because of my comforter. And even when I got up, I wasn’t very upset about it because being cold doesn’t bother me nearly as much as being hot.

Another grateful: my landlords have acknowledged that the boiler is indeed on its last legs (it is nearly as old as me!), so they are working on figuring out some replacement options.

If this gets replaced, I will probably have “consistent heat” on my thankful list every week next winter. Ha.

that we are nearly to a time of year when heat is unnecessary

It is 33 degrees as I type, but still, spring is near and so this is a pretty good time to have a bad heating system.

that I love my patient care tech job

At a work shift this week, someone said, “I can tell you really like your job here.”

And I said, “Oh, you are so right!” 🙂 

I love taking care of my patients…it makes me so happy when I can do something so small (like bringing a heated blanket) and it makes a patient feel so happy.

And I also love my co-workers. I know sometimes nurses and doctors treat techs as less-than, but I am so lucky that on my floor, I have always felt like I am part of the team.

that my student scrubs days are numbered

Only five more weekends of clinical, plus a few random lab/sim days to go! And then I will cheerfully donate my scrubs to the school’s scrub closet.

Once I graduate, no more rectangle shirt for me!!

What are you thankful for this week?