End of a hectic two months

Wow what a crazy two months it's been and very stressful.

First of all I had a tutorial about the workbook. I take direct quotes but my marker explained that although this is technically correct it spoils the flow of the essay - almost as if reading a story rather than a fluid piece of writing. My marker explained that I need to put the quote into my own words and then give credit to the original author, to show I understand the work so it would be like...Communication in healthcare brings together social, psychological and also the physical aspects of care to ensure care provisions are holistic (Lister and Dougherty, 2008) rather than taking the words straight out of the text.

So I changed that and submitted it. Then I looked at the clinical skills essay I had prepared and suddenly hated it. I changed the quotes following my previous tutorial and then realised I had missed a reference - NOT GOOD and some of my spelling was off. Thank heavens I re checked it. So that was another day spent on improving it but that's okay, it just shows the benefits of leaving work for a while and proof reading at a later date.

On top of these we had a two hour exam on skin assessment, communication, health promotion and genetics. It was nerve racking but we all gave each other moral support and I'm sure I did okay, I read through Andrew Northedge's the good study guide, to give me some guidance.

So now the exam is over I have another tutorial for the last essay I need to submit this year and then I can enjoy the Christmas holidays before my community placement in January 2009.

Today we had a practical session on giving injections which was really good and useful. I enjoyed it more since the stress of the exam is over. The last practical we had, on catheter care was not as enjoyable 'cos everyone was so stressed out, which is silly really because in nursing the pass rate is 40%.