You dream of range of motion exercises at night.... and wake up actually doing range of motion exercises!

Yup, that was me. Our first clinical skills check off was this week, and though this was the most basic of the skill check offs we will ever have, we were all a little nervous. I enjoyed a late study group the night before and fell into bed exhausted. As I frequently do the night before a test, I dreamed of the material I needed to know the next day and awoke in the middle of raising my arm over my head, 'exercising' my shoulder.

Today was our first test in Therapeutic Communications. It went better, and worse!, than anticipated. Most of the questions it was easy to pick the right answer. There were 2 short answer questions, and one of them was a fairly detailed question from a chapter we didn't cover and had been told to just skim the basics when studying. Drat! Both my husband and I had 3 multiple choice questions that we waffled back and forth between two answers (same 3 questions out of the whole test) and funny enough... we picked the opposite answer on all 3. It will be interesting to see if one of us gets all three right or it it's a mixed bag.

In Pharmacology we went over some sample NCLEX questions, lectured a little bit on mechanism of action of medications, and then got out of class nearly 2 hours early! And, she doesn't feel like grading homework next week so she told us no homework!

Another class tomorrow and then we are done with week 3... man this is flying by!