Psych Clinical

So Fall semester has started. It doesn't really feel like it since we didn't have a test the first week of school! We actually don't have our first test until Wednesday. We have 2 tests a month. They said that this semester would be the easiest of them all, so I'm trying to enjoy it. I say trying because I think that nursing school has ingrained in me that there is always something to be doing and that I really need to make use of myself. I always feel that something is due soon and that I need to be on my toes...but there is nothing due! I can't relax. I need to work on that.
Today I finished my psych clinical. I'm actually kind of bummed that it's already over. We spent 3 weeks with the same group of the kids and today was the last day to be with them. I really enjoyed it! It wasn't what I expected at all. I thought that I would be grateful that psych clinical would be ending by the time it was over. That's not the case at all. I wish we had more clinical days. It really seemed to be such a short time.
The beginning of clinical we had to pick where we went. And I didn't really have a lot of choices since many of the units seemed to be taken, so me and my partner decided to try Boys Group A. This means that it is the older boys sex offenders unit. I know, YIKES! I was kind of freaking out to my self thinking that it was going to be so uncomfortable to be on this unit. I was scared, honestly. I remember the first day we were there before we actually met any of the boys and the psych tech was like, "You look scared!" And I said quietly that I was. But I finally met the boys and they seemed like the average junior high kids. We played games and we followed them from class to class. I even had the privilege to attend group therapy with them. What I noticed in a class in particular, they would just watch movies. The first week we watched Madagascar and the second week, we watch Cold Case Files. I thought it was strange that they would be watching this because the first case was about some guy that was a rapist and he killed 30+ women and they couldn't catch him. The second case was about the Zodiac Killer. He killed a lot of people as well. No one ever caught him either. Why are they letting these kids watch this? The other thing we had the privilege of doing was go to gym with them! Hooray! It gave me a flash back of gym class in Jr high. I wasn't really a big fan of gym, but the boys loved playing dodge ball. I opted out of playing medicine man because flashbacks of Jr high gym class with dodge balls being chucked toward me weren't something that I wanted to recall. They hit really hard! (Tyler I stop chuckling)
All in all psych clincal was amazing. I loved it. So now I get a break from clincal until November. We get to do Pediatrics! I'm excited for that one too. :)