It's about time

So I have been sorta working on a little project over the last month. It's something I have basically always wanted and I am like 99% sure I am getting it now. On January 6th I went and got a consultation for breast enlargement. So I pondered it over some more and went back and forth in my mind. I talked to Josh about how I would pay for the surgery. It is the best time after all. I don't have a job to try to take time off of and I am taking classes online so I don't have to go to school. The surgery for the first consultation with Lynn Derby will cost $6400 with everything. Josh has decided to help me pay for the surgery by taking out a loan that I will pay him back when I do get a job. He wants me to get a second consultation so I am going Friday to talk to a Dr. Jeffery Karp. I wanted this surgery ASAP so I can get to healing and such in case I do get a job in the next month or two. With Dr. Karp my surgery can be as soon as February 15th. Unfortunately, if I had called Dr. Derby's offce in the morning instead of the afternoon I could have had the surgery date of February 9th. Otherwise all they had available is March 2nd. I really don't want to wait that long and am hoping I like Dr. Karp so I can get the Feb 15th date. I did however, put down a deposit to hold the March 2nd spot just in case. So at this point I am excited and just waiting to see.

NCLEX-One is all it takes

Yeah so I actually passed my NCLEX!!! I am now offically going to be a licensed registered nurse in the state of Washington.

NCLEX take 1

So I guess a lot has gone on since I posted last. I still don't have a job nor have had any interviews. I applied for others like dialysis clinics and vascular and general surgery at SHMC. HFH got back to me and said they filled a position I applied for internally. So no luck on the job front yet.

I have found out that Brandon S. will be coming to Spokane for a few weeks before he goes to Everett. That is something to look forward to. Kinda been in a blah down mood the last couple days. Today didn't help that.

I took my NCLEX licensing exam to become an RN today. WOW. worst test of my life. I basically knew nothing about almost all of the questions they gave me. There was a drug question about every 3-5 questions. I suck at drugs and don't know why they expect a new nurse to know information about drugs they haven't worked with yet. We are expected to look them up when we don't know what they are before we give them. So we should be able to during the test. Anyways there were also questions about a bunch of procedures that I hadn't heard of either. Long story short I am about 99% sure that I failed the test. Not in one of those "oh I failed" feelings where people actually did good. I don't see how that could be when I knew nothing about the test. I basically got all 75 questions about stuff I had never heard of. 75 questions is the minimum amount you can get. The computer can go to 265 questions. It determines as you go. It gives you a question. If you answer it correct it gives you a harder one. If you answer it wrong it gives you an "easier" question. It goes about this and shuts off when it has determined whether you have passed or failed or you have reached 265 questions or gone past your 6 hour time limit. Mine shut off at 75 and i felt clueless the whole time. I FAILED.

Ok, so I won't technically know till about Saturday, but I hate to say I am pretty glass totally empty at this point.

In other news.....I am officially a Washington State university student. I am taking 10 credits online. Four classes. N360, N365, N405, and N478. I am actually pretty overwhelmed already. I guess I am just have to really work on not procrastinating cause if I get behind in any class during and given week I will be screwed.



So on that note I better get back to trying to finish up the third class' week's assignment so I can work on the fourth class' assignment. Lots of reading and posting and figuring out APA formatting to do.

Job apps, test, and apartment hunting

So I applied for three more jobs yesterday. Two ER jobs at Valley. One part time and the other full time and a float nurse position at Holy. I had previously applied for two other cardiac part time positions, but they say sorry we don't want to interview you on their status'. I also went and looked at the Rosewood Apartments I have been meaning to. They are behind the Les Schwab off Sullivan. I definitely loved the 2 bedroom/ 2 bath apartment. It's about 900sf and $740/month. The let downs for the place are no carports, wait list on the garages which are $50/month, I didn't see any visitor parking, and there is no clubhouse for a fitness facility or pool. I really do like the apartment though. Definitely on my list.

I also finally got around to taking one of the 265 question practice test on my Pearson Vue CD. It took 2 1/2 hours and I ended up getting a 68%. I think that means I may not have passed. I did find out though while reviewing the questions that at least one of mine was right and they marked it wrong. I'll just have to keep practicing and hope for the best.

Avatar

I went to the movie Avatar last night. It was in the AMC's new IMAX theatre. Not as big as the real IMAX in Riverfront Park, but I don't think I could have handled it any bigger. The movie was also in 3D. It was very cool, but definetly made your brain work. We all kinda had headaches after the show. I basically felt like a had a hangover.

Still very cool and would suggest others go see the movie in 3D.

Christmas Tree Hunting

We went out to get our Christmas tree today. Blake, Mom, and Dad and I got up and left the house at 6:30. We went to Dean's for breakfast in Reardan before we went up to the property to hunt down a tree. We drove up, pulled off the gravel road and began our little hike to search for our tree. At least the snow wasn't as deep as last year. We were able to walk around fairly easily. It was a nice pretty hike. I didn't mind being up that early to do it. I hadn't been out the property since we had Fumi as a Japenese exchange student in 6th grade.





I spotted one up the hill. Blake and I went up to decide if it really was gonna be a well shaped Charlie Brown Tree and bring it down.



It was, so Blake went about cutting it down.





And we drug it back to the truck.




After we drug the tree back to the road my dad and brother finally showed me how to shoot my gun. It was my grandmother's and my dad had given it to me for a birthday a few years earlier. Now I know how to shoot it. My dad was proud and impressed by my shooting pattern. My brother also got to shoot his gun.





On the way home we got pulled over. Uh oh!! Apparently the tabs on the truck had expired earlier that month and the Airway Heights officer was bored.




Here are pictures of our tree in all its glory.

ACLS course

I did the Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) course today through SCC. There were about nine of us in the class. Yesterday I was lucky enough to have gotten to practice for five hours with Brandy's husband. He is a flight nurse with Medstar as well as an ACLS instructor. It was good to get the practice. It made today much easier. Especially since we are doing the course in one day instead of two.

We watched videos and then took a written test. Afterwards we had to go through a megacode simulation.

I passed the course. The instructor, Brian Lee, also told me I should contact Becky at the SHMC ER and tell her he said I should contact her. Maybe it will give me an in to the ER. He said they have positions that they don't always post. I'll have to try that.