If you live in North Carolina, or perhaps anywhere in the Southeast, you have heard about the proposed marriage amendment to the state constitution that is on our ballot this May 8. You may have hea...
I love being a new nurse. I am still fresh, and learning – and I do love to learn. I think that is one of the best things about my career… you can never top out on your knowledge. Since ...
I’ll be honest – this week when I walked into the hospital for the first time as an RN, I was terrified. It’s one of those things that doesn’t quite feel real, no matter how m...
Chances are, if you’ve never spent any time inside a Children’s Hospital, you have no idea what Child Life is or what they do. When I started my pediatric clinical, I was immediately int...
This was actually a search term that someone typed in to land on my blog. I think if you have to ask the question, this field is probably not the right one for you. The one thing pediatric nursing h...
I think every night shift nurse needs one of these for their bedroom door, don’t you? Source: etsy.com via Katherine on Pinterest
This is a great video…. inspiring to Nurses and Nurses to Be alike! I really enjoy videos and articles that showcase what nurses really do. :) Enjoy.
If you read my blog from start to finish, you will notice one consistent theme. Pediatrics. When I started on this journey, pediatrics was so far off my radar it’s not even funny. If you talk...
What a great feeling today, to be able to drop the … Eventually from my blog name. I am a NURSE! I took my NCLEX exam last week, on January 12. What a nerve wracking experience, and I’ll ...
For two years, I’ve been studying. Working hard. Reviewing material. Memorizing lab values. Taking exam after exam. Studying rationale after rationale for those aggravating questions that jus...
Do these people look excited, or what? Today we had our class photo done. We all dressed up nicely, according to tradition (the ASN program has traditionally worn white, but thru the years when the n...
I get that question a lot…. “Why do you want to be a pediatric nurse?!?!” When the question is asked, it’s usually accompanied by a scrunching up of the face, and a look of h...
When you start nursing school, it seems like it will last forever. You live dead line to dead line. Test to test. Clinical day to clinical day. You faithfully cross out the dates on the syllabus ...
I’ve been pretty slack in updating this blog recently, probably because that time has come in this race called nursing school where I can see the finish line. I can see the finish line,...
One of these things is not like the other…. Last week in class, when we were going over what the next few months had in store for us, my instructor brought up a very good point. We are all impo...
The countdown is on! I’ve neglected this blog over the past few months. I’ll be honest. I was checked out. For the first time in what seems like an eternity, I was able to relax and enjoy...
Wow. I can hardly believe it. My fourth semester of nursing school is over! Last Wednesday, as I walked out of my cumulative final exam, I felt something that I haven’t felt in a long time. A h...
During the very first semester of nursing school, we were drilled up one side and down the other with culture. Cultures, religions, beliefs, practices…all of the things that our patients might ...
All nursing students get to this point eventually. If you are a student nurse, and you aren’t there yet – don’t worry, it’s coming. What is the inevitable plight of which I ...
That is: “What would Florence Nightengale do?” I’m a fourth semester nursing student now. It’s hard to believe it…. the time is flying by now, and I can see the end of t...
So much has happened in the past several weeks that I can’t even begin to get it all down in one blog. This has been an amazing semester for me. I have learned so much. I haven’t had much...
I see it!!! My third semester is almost done. I can hardly believe it. It seems like I have been a bit slack at updating this blog lately, and that’s because I have. I’ll update a real ...
When you start working in the hospitals… on the floors, here and there… you start to get a sense of where you “belong”. There are so many places, so many specialities. And I...
I learned last week what an upper GI bleed smells like… once it makes its way out the other end. Wow. That smell is now ingrained in my brain. There is no forgetting that! Too bad the pathop...
I have a lot to talk about, because a lot has happened! I loved my time on the hospital floor. Absolutely loved it. I hear so many people diss on Med/Surg units…. and I just don’t get i...
We’re back in the hospital this week! I can’t wait. I feel like I’ve been out of there for ages. Can’t wait to jump back in with both feet. We had our first exam today and ...
Today was my first day of Med/Surg. Or, as it’s called in my program – “Adult I”. I don’t have much to say about class yet because today was just a mish mash of syllabus...
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