They are Sadists I tell you!!!

So according to Mom and Dad, I have not written on here in a while and their suspicions are correct, I am incredibly busy. However, the good part is that I AM keeping up, barely. WOW, what a task that is. You know when you watch those movies that take place in some run down office that has the desk of the new guy completely stacked with files, and as soon as they get through those stacks and the wave of relief falls on his face, they throw down another stack. well, that is what nursing school feels like. Just when I see the light, AKA a break from my office and in front of the computer, A new assignment comes in, such as last night. I finally took a break from the office to spend some time with Dave before he started back into his rotation of midnight to noon, I get a nice text message letting me know that the syllabus was wrong and that the reading assignment, that I just completed was the wrong one, "but here are the correct 25 pages to read for class tomorrow, have a great night!" They are Sadists I tell you!!!
Today was my first day in the lab doing skills checkoff. Vital Signs. Yes, that made me want to jump out of bed and hurry to school, just to learn something that I have been doing for the last 5 years!!! Okay so this will be easy I thought to myself as I pulled my $20 required scrub top over my head, attached my $5 name tag, and threw my book bag with the $100 fundamentals book, and $120 password for my required nursing math website in it. And this is just for the 3 hour clinical class. I walked into the lab, got our instructions and proceded. Three sets of vital signs on three different people, signed off by three different instructors, not to bad, but wait...where is the third instructor...sick...we can't turn in the assignment today...we have to come back on Friday to get a third signature!!!! Wow I guess they don't realize that not only do we have people from out of town, but we also have 8 other chapters to read, a tutorial to sit through, 5 videos to watch, a math test to do, chart on three drugs, and complete 40 workbook pages over chemistry for my physiology class all by Monday before the three tests that I have between Monday and Tuesday. Then after practicing vital signs for a while and asking the the Director of Nursing if I could check off, she looks at me like I had never taken a vital sign in my life and lectures me on the importance of taking accurate vital signs and truly knowing what you are doing, and seriously asks me if I even know the correct way of taking a Tympanic Temperature, are you kidding me! At this point I wanted to take hers rectally with the tympanic thermometer, pump up the sphygomomanometer to about 250 around her neck, while taking her carotid pulse on both sides. Okay maybe not that bad, some of that was added for dramatic effect. So I proceed to taking the vital signs, and after telling her what I got for the BP, she made me retake it 4 times because SHE couldn't hear it!!! Then she tried to stump me on the eight pulses of the body, sorry lady, maybe second semester.