My clinical placement for this semester is at a Women's Health Initiative and Family Focus health care clinic at Toronto Western Hospital.

It is the best placement for me because when I graduate I want to go into women's health.

Today I got to teach sex trade workers how to empower themselves by using a female condom. It was the awesomeMy days ( Read more... )

Today is my 31st Birthday. I wouldn't change my age for anything. 30 was probably the best year of my life. In my 30th year I ( Read more... )

So sometimes between September and now, it seems that I've decided that I want to do my Master's and PhD in nursing. I can't understand what I'm thinking. I loathe school and all the shitty papers I am forced to write and all the useless articles and books I have to read...I just wanted my degree and then I'd say "Peace out academia ( Read more... )

As it's been 9 months since my last post...the time in which human beings are created...I figured an update of sorts is due. If nothing then to make me feel better about my writing laziness ( Read more... )

I GRADUATED AND GOT UTTERLY SMASHED AND RECEIVED MY LICENSE TO PRACTICE NURSING AND AS SUCH MY HAPPINESS CANNOT BE CONVEYED BY MERE WRITTEN WORDS.

( ME WITH MY BRAND NEW LIL' BEBE LICENSE )

I PASSED MY NATIONAL NURSING EXAM LIKE WHOA!!!!!!!!

I JUST CAN'T BELIEVE IT!!!! GOD, HOW MY HANDS SHOOK!!!!

I'M FINALLY A LICENSED NURSE AND I AM SO FUCKING THRILLED!!!!!!!

I'M HAVING A MILLION AND FIVE DRINKS NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What is awesome?

Day surgery is effing awesome...well at least from an observational perspective.

I spent the day in Day Surgery and I got to see:4 Colonoscopies
1 Gastroscope
1 Vasectomy
1 Ganglion RemovalI also go to take out four saline lock needles from the dorsum of five different hands...which was where they injected the Fentanyl used to ( Read more... )

I saw a prolapsed bladder at work today. That is a female urological condition where the bladder comes out of the vagina due to weakened vaginal walls. One part of the bladder was bright red, like blood and the rest of it was wrinkly purple. It looked kind of like an NH3 molecule and kind of like a bouquet of long toes. I poked it with a gloved ( Read more... )

I just did my catherization testing and it was awesome because I passed so ergo I am awesome because I passed and all is well in my life once again ( Read more... )

Clinical starts in two weeks and I'm bloody petrified but in such a good way. I've been placed on the surgical unit at South Shore Regional Hospital and I'm damn ecstatic because surgical floor owns medical floor, a dead monkey could see that. I'll be working for seven weeks, alternating between day shifts one week and night shifts the next and I ( Read more... )