Finally have a weekend off

I am extra excited to finally have a weekend off. I am sure that I will still be busy with the kids, but busy with family vs. busy with work is two different tired feelings. I have a very busy week coming up at school next week, and I am anticipating alot of stress related to this coming week. I have Unit Exam for nursing on 2 very hard topics and then I have a competency that I have to perform in front of my instructors. For those of you who don't know what a competency is, it is a set of skills that you have to perform in a certain amount of time while being watched by your instructors. You go into it blind and have no idea what skills you will have to perform. You are escorted through the halls with the instructors and you have to choose a folder and some cards from a pile. The card and the folders tell you what you have to do and then you are timed fro 50 mins to do 2 skills and documentation of your findings. Nerves get the best of alot of people and cause them to fail. If you fail the first time you get one more chance the week of Thanksgiving, and if you fail again...You are out of the nursing program. It is very stressful and hard to figure out. On top of the competency, I have the unit exam the same day....YIKES. I have not done well on the past two test and have been very stressed out about it, so I have got to do well on this test to be able to pull my spirits back up as well as my grades. I really am worried but I know with some studying and time management I can probably pull this off. I don't know why nursing school has to be so hard, but it is not for the weak souls out there. It takes tough skin and a drive like no other to get through this program. I know in the end it will have been worth it, but sometimes it is hard to believe that one.

Thanks for letting me vent.