Thursday was my first day of work at the Big Hospital. It was a pretty standard but uneventful day and I loved it. The nurses on our floor are funny anf competent and likeable, my supervisor is sweet and I really like her. If that were my real job (and not just my practicum) I would be really happy.
I get there a little before 9:30 and it's right on the light-rail system, so I can take the train. Then meet with the nurse who lets us know which patients to see and why they were referred to us. We make the rounds and do assesments, see who needs further referrrals or counseling, povide that and then write it all up in their charts. Then the rest of the day is taken up by working to get donations and putting together publicity packets and other little projects to help people out. It's really enjoyable.
So far, this semester is definitely good enough to make up for how aweful last semester was.
Saturday, January 26, 2008
Thursday, January 17, 2008
A New Semester
As of a month ago i was dreading the start of this semester - heck, as of yesterday I was dreading the start of this semester. I went to two of the six classes I am signed up for yesterday (the only two that will meet this week), and I must say that I was pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoyed them.
The first is a course on social work in health care - the professor seems lovely and recently served on the Big Hospital's ethics board, which just makes me all warm and fuzzy inside. A pet goal of mine is to be on an ethics board at a hospital; in my fantasy-world this would be my entire job and I'd work at one of the TV hospitals where everything is dramatic and exciting and I get paid hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The second course is on feminist theory and practice in social work. I was really apprehensive about this one at first, but I think it will be ok. Two Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies professors from the university are in this class - one of them freaks the professor out a bit because she is older and the professor obviously has a lot of respect for her. The professor is a Gloria Steinem style lesbian academic feminist - she seems very nice and just a little fake, but I think I can deal with that. My only problem is that it will be very hard for me to not talk the entire time. This is a subject that I know a lot about and have very strong opinions on and that I believe my opinions are... more radical (not Radical mind you but rather using the word with its dictionary definition) than the teachers and most people I would think.
Next week I will begin my job at Big Hospital and have my first medical ethics class, which I am really looking forward to. The week after next, I will have my first seminar course which is a piggy-back onto the job at Big Hospital. My last course is a weekend course which will meet three long weekends sprinkled across the semester - it will be my last intro course and hopefully I will enjoy it, I hear the professor is amazing.
The first is a course on social work in health care - the professor seems lovely and recently served on the Big Hospital's ethics board, which just makes me all warm and fuzzy inside. A pet goal of mine is to be on an ethics board at a hospital; in my fantasy-world this would be my entire job and I'd work at one of the TV hospitals where everything is dramatic and exciting and I get paid hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The second course is on feminist theory and practice in social work. I was really apprehensive about this one at first, but I think it will be ok. Two Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies professors from the university are in this class - one of them freaks the professor out a bit because she is older and the professor obviously has a lot of respect for her. The professor is a Gloria Steinem style lesbian academic feminist - she seems very nice and just a little fake, but I think I can deal with that. My only problem is that it will be very hard for me to not talk the entire time. This is a subject that I know a lot about and have very strong opinions on and that I believe my opinions are... more radical (not Radical mind you but rather using the word with its dictionary definition) than the teachers and most people I would think.
Next week I will begin my job at Big Hospital and have my first medical ethics class, which I am really looking forward to. The week after next, I will have my first seminar course which is a piggy-back onto the job at Big Hospital. My last course is a weekend course which will meet three long weekends sprinkled across the semester - it will be my last intro course and hopefully I will enjoy it, I hear the professor is amazing.
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
A New Year
This is the beginning of my first calendar year as a married woman, and my first calendar year of being in graduate school (should be my only calendar year in graduate school too!). So far it has been off to a lazy start with lots of hanging out with friends, going to the gym and catching up on webcomics, etc.
Right now I am officially starting to get ready for the upcomming semester. First, I am updating my google calendar with all of my classes and meetings, then I need to figure out which books I need to buy and when. Cash flow might be an issue this month (thank you to the gas company's clerical error and my boss for forgetting to get my time sheet in for me while I was out of the office for the holidays), so books will be more of a pain in the butt than usual. Last semester I spent 600 dollars on books, all but one of those books was a complete waste of money, so hopefully I can sell them off and get something back for them.
At the moment I am trying to decide if Opera, as a browser, is worth it and trying to figure out why Google is a jerk. You would think that a company devoted to open source would not go out of its way to make Opera useless on its site, but I guess that even a company that claims to not be evil can be a money grubbing jerk too. Oh well. I like google, I am often so impressed by google, and I sometimes forget that corporations are still corporations. Sad but true.
Right now I am officially starting to get ready for the upcomming semester. First, I am updating my google calendar with all of my classes and meetings, then I need to figure out which books I need to buy and when. Cash flow might be an issue this month (thank you to the gas company's clerical error and my boss for forgetting to get my time sheet in for me while I was out of the office for the holidays), so books will be more of a pain in the butt than usual. Last semester I spent 600 dollars on books, all but one of those books was a complete waste of money, so hopefully I can sell them off and get something back for them.
At the moment I am trying to decide if Opera, as a browser, is worth it and trying to figure out why Google is a jerk. You would think that a company devoted to open source would not go out of its way to make Opera useless on its site, but I guess that even a company that claims to not be evil can be a money grubbing jerk too. Oh well. I like google, I am often so impressed by google, and I sometimes forget that corporations are still corporations. Sad but true.
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