1. American Senior Citizens must spend all their money first and then the government will give them money (take care of them) while the senior can still keep their home and car.
2. Caregivers are basically a little of everything. Nurse, doc, therapist, companion, etc We are supposed to tell the docs about a patients medical history after getting it from the family and stuff.
3. Basically, the job of a CG is to make sure the patient is always presentable at all times, has meals on time, gets around, and takes their medicines on time. And take them to Doc appointments.
4. The best way to prepare for an oral return demonstration practical exam is to keep writing the procedure and rationales down over and over till you use up all 100 sheets of yellow pad paper. Only after doing that and having the same results come out every time even if written in various ways can you be sure that you know your petrissage from your tapotement. You can be sure that you can answer any question no matter how far out of left field it comes from. Just don't let your classmates catch you doing it because it is "not normal" to review that way and they WILL report you to your Testing lecturer who will immediately order you to cease and desist from reviewing that way because it is a really dumb way of doing it. I never stopped doing it and I passed every exam they threw at me. I was too thorough though. I did not leave anything for the tester to ask me anymore while I was giving my demonstration. Sheesh! Looks like I can't ever do anything right by their standards :p
5. As far as my classes have gone, Tonchi summed it up best for me when she said, "In the Phils, it's "We pretend to teach and they pretend to learn". I was damned and made a target in the whole class by this point because I actually was learning something and it wasn't much owing to the lecturers but more because I was pushing myself to learn and do well. At a certain point, I accidentally showed up a lecturer during a demo exam because I was TOO THOROUGH AND WASTING TIME
6. Being the only over 30 student in a classroom full of teens to twenty something makes you the target of certain lecturers for some strange reason. I never did find out why till the day I finished the course.
7. When getting paired up for a demonstration partner, avoid a partner who is addicted to downloading MP3 songs from the internet if you value your sanity and review time. That person can make exam day a living hell for you.
Coming up, April (mis)adventures :-D