Why buy the cow?

We started N302, our second semester, with the most boring and tedious A&P review known to man. As I write this, the pregnant wifey is sitting next to me writhing with abdominal pain. I try so hard to comfort her during all this but I really just try to be there next to her during the hard times. All my training, motivation, and skill sets are stripped down and worthless when compared against making babies. I can't even imagine.... Everyone in the family knows now. We are just now starting to come to terms with it ourselves now ;0)

Baby,
I can't wait to meet you. You have to understand that with what happened to your cousin, your mom and I are on tenterhooks. We would like to think that we will be alright if you decide this world isn't good enough for you and that you want to go straight to heaven. To be honest, we will be devastated. I can't wait till we will see your smiling face. Stay forever young and be patient with your old man.

Anyway we started the semester and it is primarily a pathology based semester. We've moved onto IV med and IV med math. This semester is fast, intense and is combined with a speech class. We have to pick up our patient assignments on tuesday after lecture and then we have Wednesday and Thursday clinical.
Interesting point
We have to make a care plan for every week and every patient which is to be expected. Some type of torture they've invented is the grading of these care plans. First of all, it is either SAT or UNSAT. Second, we are only allowed to submit three of these care plans for a sat or unsat. And to make it even more incredibly nerve-racking, two of them must be sat! So next time you want to bitch about your nursing program, save it.
Some issues have already become clear, only two semesters in, regarding men in nursing school. I've noticed that several of the women in the class are being funded by multiple sources of women-only scholarships/grants that are from what I can tell affiliated with the hospital. When I ask the financial aid department I get half-hearted diversionary responses. Obviously I'm not going to state that no funding exists for males in nursing school but I've already run up against a wall. The ladies didn't even have to apply for this funding source. The financial aid department took care of it for them and just requested a short letter from the students. I've barely gotten started and I can already find an area that needs support for males in nursing.