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Student nurse to 'real' nurse
Tomorrow in my nursing class we are going to start our graduation paperwork. We don't graduate until next Spring, but the school gets this process started early in case there is a class that you missed. Our program is accredited by the Nursing Schools Federation (or whatever it's called) so there is standard our school maintains for classes and ( Read more... ) -
Teddy Bear Clinic
This morning my clinical group met at a child care center through our school and did "therapeutic play" with the kids. What that really means: I sat at a table with a teddy bear and 3 girls, and we pretended to do a physical exam of the teddy bear. The girls got to wear surgical masks, give the bear shots, wrap the blood pressure cuff around the ( Read more... ) -
Merry Christmas
This is my first time posting from my phone, so let's see how well this works. My laptop conked out again. Ryan bought me a laptop for Christmas, but it is back ordered. So, my apologies to new adds for my absence! I'm at the Minneapolis airport. I was supposed to make it back to my podunk WI town last night, but the winter blizzard was so ( Read more... ) -
Wake Up
This morning I kind of woke up on the wrong side of bed. I was still in a sour mood from the night before, having dinner with Ryan's family and listening to their comments. I know that my family was/is really inhibited, and we don't like to disagree, but Ryan's family is a "we all talk at once and say exactly what is on our mind" type of family ( Read more... ) -
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I can't even imagine that I am going to do with myself after my last final today!!! It feels like a dream, but with less of the panic that I usually feel with an impending final. I calculated my grade for the class yesterday, and found out I could get 23 out of 50 questions wrong on the final and still pass the class with a B. And that even if I ( Read more... ) -
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I'm pretty much wide-awake at 1:30am because I drank coffee during a monster study session for Pharmacology. The group talked for about 4 hours and we didn't even cover everything for the final. Granted, that was because "It's a Wonderful Life" was playing quietly in the background and as we reviewed, we also felt it necessary to review different ( Read more... ) -
Awkward Spot
I'm in a bizarre place in life right now where I can truly say "I have no idea what is going to happen next". I have been trying to plan and build and work through goals and everything has crashed and burned. After my last final next Thursday I won't be a student, I may or may not have a job based on the latest round of applications I recently ( Read more... ) -
Plan B
I am definitely not starting nursing school in January. There was a slight chance that I would still be able to if a certain number of people dropped out in time, but I talked to the nursing school office yesterday and there are still 7 people ahead of me. The woman I spoke with has been talking to me all semester and has been very kind to me. I ( Read more... )