Thankful Thursday | Mental health: done!

This week, I am thankful:

that I’m halfway through my semester!

I had my cumulative final for my mental health/med surg class yesterday so that accelerated 8-week course is DONE.

And starting on Monday, I move on to an accelerated 8-week pediatrics course.

I realize the title of this post could sound like I’m saying my own mental health is done for. Ha.

This was a hard class and it did take a lot out of me, but thankfully my mental health is largely intact. 😉

that I’m more excited about pediatrics as a topic

In semester two, I had a med surg class and a women’s health class. I much preferred the women’s health, because it was pregnancy, labor, delivery, and all of that. That was much more my wheelhouse than med-surg.

And I feel the same about this semester; pediatrics is probably gonna be more my jam than mental health/med-surg.

So, yay!

that my friend gave me a pediatrics NCLEX book

My 20-year-old classmate and friend just finished peds and is doing mental health next.

So, I offered to give her my mental health textbook, and when I gave it to her yesterday, she handed me a pediatrics book full of NCLEX questions.

SWEET.

So now I have some supplemental study material for pediatrics.

that my other classmate gave me a little badge clip

We have been studying together lots this past week (she’s Lisey’s age and calls me her school mom. Ha.) and she brought me this clip for my hospital badge.

Of course, I love what it says because being kind is always my goal, no matter where I am (and that includes at the hospital with patients.)

that Martti exists

In my last week of med-surg clinicals, I had a patient who spoke only Vietnamese.

I speak exactly no Vietnamese, so this was a problem.

One day, his grandson was there to help out, but another time, I used the Martti app on the hospital iPad and it was AMAZING.

A live person who knows both Vietnamese and English popped up on camera and helped us through the process of giving my patient his meds. I was able to explain what they were for, and when he was confused about something, I was able to explain the reason he needed to keep taking the meds.

You can also get an ASL interpreter on there, so it’s not even just for spoken languages.

It is such a super cool service and I am for sure going to take advantage of this service in the future when I have a patient who is not an English speaker!

that I have a couple of days to breathe between classes

I work a 12-hour shift tomorrow at the hospital, but then I have Friday, Saturday, and Sunday off of school before pediatrics starts on Monday. Yay!!!

I was making dinner last night, and normally I’d be listening to textbook chapters or podcasts on relevant topics. But I just listened to music on my earbuds because I have no class right now. 🙂

that my flu shot and TDAP are accepted

We have to upload our vaccinations and such into an app for school, and they initially rejected the TDAP that I just got. But I reuploaded it and now I’m all 100% compliant again. Whew.

Any issues with this would have delayed my approval for starting pediatrics clinicals so I’m glad to be in good shape now.

that we don’t have to wait a LONG time for grades

I took my final yesterday, and probably I will have my grade this morning. Unfortunately, I will be working at the hospital so I will have to wait until break time to see my results.

I am always on pins and needles waiting for my grades, so I am grateful it’s usually less than a 24 hour wait.

I didn’t need a very high grade to pass, so I’m not terribly stressed. But still, I will feel better once I know for sure what my score was!

What are you thankful for this week?