EXAMS WEEK IS OVER

I didn't expect that our exam in Anatomy and Physiology (Biological Science 2) would be that hard.

I know I'll pass, but I also have a strong ugly feeling that I won't be happy with my score.

As for my two other subjects, I think I did okay.
 
Results will be out either mid or late next week, unless the teachers will sleep on them again--like they always do to our lab manuals and some of our long quizzes.

I miss an ice-cold beer and a full night's sleep.

EXAMS WEEK BEGINS TODAY

Today is the start of our prelim exams week.
 
Out of my five subjects this semester, only three of them will be having prelim exams. They are:
 
1. Anatomy and Physiology (Biological Science 2);
2. Health Care 1 with Related Learning Experience (Health 1N); and
3. Health Economics with Taxation and Land Reform (Economics 2).
 
The other two subjects are Strategies in Health Education (Health 3) and Art Appreciation with Environmental Beautification and Sanitation (Humanities 1).

My classmates in these two subjects almost jumped for joy after our teachers announced that they won't be giving exams for now because they wanted us focus on our "more challenging subjects."

What I think is--knowing some of the teachers in school--they were probably just too lazy to prepare the test items.

Thanks anyway. At least I'd have extra time to surf and blog and chat a little during the week.

THE FIRST NURSES WERE MEN

As a neophyte student nurse, it came a bit of a surprise to learn that the first nurses in history were not the Florence Nightingale types but were the so-called "warriors of blood and steel" instead, such as 12th-century knight Balian of Ibelin (who was portrayed in Ridley Scott's 2005 movie Kingdom of Heaven).

The Teutonic Knights and the Knights Hospitallers--besides their "default role" of disemboweling their Muslim enemies during the Crusades--were all religiomilitary organizations tasked to provide nursing care for poor, sick, and wounded soldiers and pilgrims in the Holy Land.
 
I don't wish to sound sexist here, but it was only logical that the early battlefield nurses were men and not women. During those times of barbaric armed conflicts, female nurses would have been molested or, worse, ravished and transformed into uncooperative "fuck dolls" by sex-starved soldiers.
 
In the Philippines, nursing still remains a female-dominated field. However, more and more Filipino guys like myself have decided to reassume our (ahem) historical role and heritage as caring and nurturing "warrior nurses." 


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