I finished Research. It turned out that I aced this one...it came back with a nearly perfect score. It'd be nice if WGU thought it merited an excellence award, but I guess it'd have to have a perfect score to get that.
I got a few recruiting pitches. The most notable one was from ICE...yes, that ICE. Apparently psychiatric nurses can have flourishing careers in Immigration and Customs Enforcement. And apparently they saw me on LinkedIn and thought I was a good candidate. I'm going to guess that they saw the last name and figured I was likely fluent in Spanish. I'm working on it. And Russian.
Yes, Russian.
I had always wanted to learn it as a kid and even got some sort of course to start with. But it was no Rosetta Stone and didn't really make it stick. I decided to take advantage of a summer sale to add on Rosetta Stone Russian online. I work on Spanish classes during my lunch breaks. I started working on Russian classes when I'm on the treadmill. As far as practice goes, surprisingly there is a sizable Russian/Ukrainian community in my town.
Anyhow, back to the recruiting pitch...I admit, I was intrigued. ICE? Me? Meriwhen in a green and white car? It would coordinate with my blog's theme.
Ah, no, not now. I'm not planning to leave my current gig any time soon, as it took me so long to land it in the first place.
I went on a short holiday. I brought my laptop with every intention of opening it up to do schoolwork, but I opened it up to look up local attractions and indulge in some late-night Minecraft. So I technically didn't begin my next course--Informatics--until this past Monday.
I'm now about a week and a half behind my arbitrary deadlines, but
that's OK. My first program mentor had set the dates up so I'd finish
in mid-November, leaving me with 6 free weeks. I opened up my iCal and
plugged in the actual dates, and made a few adjustments. My adjustments
have me finishing in mid-December...on my birthday, actually.
So, for Informatics...
For this class, they recommend taking part in as many of the live cohorts as possible. I threw myself right into the first live cohort, and the second will be today. My schedule won't let me hit every cohort, but I can hit two a week.
I went to the first one, which was taught by my assigned course instructor. So she's going on about the course and mentions an informatics scenario that sounds suspiciously like it occurred in a psych setting. I could relate. So she continues on and it turns out she IS a psych nurse. Well, she's in Informatics now, but she's a psych nurse at heart and loves it.
It was all I could do to keep from squealing. A fellow comrade from the dark side!
The course being Informatics, she couldn't talk psych nursing for long. But I must speak with this instructor more. Since I'm planning to approach the performance assessments from a psych perspective, she will be a valuable asset. Speaking of which, this course has two performance assessments independent of each other, and I get to use PowerPoint for one of them. Should be fun.
