Onwards to my 2nd day of clinical...or it might have been the next week? I actually can't remember all that clearly because all the days just blur together after a while with only the significant things happening sticking out in my memory. Anyways, I digress ( Read more... )

I know I said I was going to write about my first "near-death" experience with patients on the ICU as an orienting nurse (not student, need to remind myself that I haven't legally been a student in almost 3 years now) but something else just really made me stop recently ( Read more... )

After 2 weeks of classes 5 days a week, we FINALLY get 2 days on the unit for 8 hours each day just as practice for what will be my job and career for the rest of my life. For some reason, that whole "rest of my life" thing never really crossed my mind at the time, and it only occurred to me now that this was a life-changing moment. The moment ( Read more... )

I know I wrote on and off about my not-so-secret nursing career. Everything from the days in nursing school to job hunting to eventually finding a job, only to have go to right back to school for that job, onto actually working and eventually into working on my own. It's been an interesting journey for someone fresh out of school to go so deep into ( Read more... )