Thoughts From a Frazzled Mind

This week marks the start of a new semester.  This semester I am teaching two courses, but three classes:  Pharm 2 at the Murray campus on Mondays, Pharm 2 at the Layton campus on Tuesdays, and Fundamentals at the Layton campus on Wednesdays.  It should be an interesting semester with 3 different classes and groups of people.  I'm excited! We usually have a "Boot Camp" for the incoming fundamental students.  These students have been taking general classes but have not actually taken any nursing classes.  At the Boot Camp the students spend a day downloading all of the nursing e-textbooks and software, learning basic navigation of the software, get vouchers for scrubs and also go over all of the expectations for class, labs, and clinicals.  It is usually a very fun and productive day and all of the faculty members participate.  However, due to some scheduling conflicts the Boot Camp for the Layton students fell on Tuesday of this week.  All ...

We have started a grand tradition in my family. Instead of stressing to find just the right gift for our mothers, we have started just going to dinner together to celebrate Mother's Day. When I called my mom to see if she was okay with dinner instead of gifts again this year, she replied, "Oh Yes! I was so hoping that we would!" It is such a fun evening. Only moms are invited - so our group included mom, my 3 sisters, Roxane, Robin, and Ashley, as well as Shandra and my niece, MicKenzie. Robin did surprise mom with a special gift, however. Many years ago mom wrote and illustrated a children's book called, "Marblehead". It was never published, she just kept the pages in sheet protectors in a binder. Robin stole the book, scanned the pages, and sent to Blurb for publishing. It was terrific! Ashley read it to all of us there. It was a perfect gift. We had so much fun, eating, laughing, and sharing old stories! This will be a tradition I will look forward to ev...