(This is me before starting school, pretty relaxed....not now!!)
I just wanted to give everyone a quick update.....it seems like when school starts my blogging and phone calls and any other form of contact falls of the face of the earth. Good new, I am surviving my LAST semester of nursing school. I can't even believe that the time has arrived for me to say that or to be talking graduation plans or even getting a job as an RN!!! Can I tell you how excited I am!
Clinicals have started and this semster they are geared more towards critical care. My first day of clinicals I got watch OPEN HEART SURGERY twice!! It was so awesome. I loved every second of it. I will NEVER forget the image that is burned into my brain of the sternum being sawed open (a real saw) and seeing the heart beating!! Our bodies, what an amazing thing. It is the like the image of witnessing the first birth of a baby on Labor and Delivery....never forget that either. My other clinicals have been great too but I started out with the best that is for sure.
I am 5 weeks into the semester and I have like 90 days til graduation, it is May 18th. I am sending in my application to the state for my licensing right now since that takes 2 to 4 months to process.
I have to keep pinching myself saying yes it is really happening....it has been a long road and it always seemed like such a far away dream that I almost thought would never happen. What a great feeling.
Plans for now....survive my last semester of nursing school and hope my husband can too... I can be a little cranky :(
Plans for my future after May 18 :)......1st head to Cancun for a much needed vacation, work in Vegas (better pay, better experience and better hospitals), probably start a family and enjoy my time with no school, although I do see myself going back eventually for a Nurse Practioner degree ( you all really didn't think I would stay away forever right?)!!!
