This is my life: Fate fucks with me until I don't think I can take it anymore then BAM! My life changes ( Read more... )

After two long years, I finally graduated from nursing school. What an exciting and enthralling journey it was. I'll never forget the new experiences and the friends I made. Everyone was ready to celebrate after the final but it didn't really hit me till we were on stage for graduation practice. I got to sit with my nursing buddies of course and it ( Read more... )

This was a really good week. Let's see. I had my Pharmacology final on Monday. Aced it. Then I had my Mental Health Nursing final on Friday. Aced that one too! So I took 4 classes this semester. Three As and one B. Gotta say, not bad at all! I freaking ROCKED this semester. My Psych teacher said in our first week of clinical, "Just cuz you got an A ( Read more... )

We reviewed content for the final in my Pharmacology class today. We played jeopardy for all the psychiatric medications. One of the questions (answers?) I answered was "What are the symptoms of mania?" My teacher says, "Correct! You have these!" Everyone was just like, "Ohhhhhhhhh," as though she said something demeaning to me. I knew she was ( Read more... )

My sister texted all of us yesterday morning. "Someone talk to me" she said. I was in class so I told her I would call her later. When I did call her at lunch, she said, "Yeah I'm at lunch. I went to the doctors earlier. I'm 4 cm dilated and 80% thinned out. My doctor asked me if I have been having conractions. I told her I felt some pressure when ( Read more... )

I had my Intermediate Med-Surg final today. Oh boy it was rough going into it. I had a 77%. I needed about 73 points to get at least a C in the class. I nailed 85 points on my final and a B in the class. Not bad considering I got a D on my first exam. I had my final eval with my instructor too. She told me she was confident I will do well in my ( Read more... )

I had dinner at Sally's last night. She made enchiladas. I hadn't seen her or Sam in probably a month. When they got home, Sam immediately gave me a hug and a bunch of kisses. Oh man it felt so good to hold that kid and have her tell me about my day. I missed her and seeing her felt wonderful ( Read more... )

I had another awesome week of clinical today. I passed my physical assessnent comptency on my first try today! I was sure I was the last person to do a comptency but she told me no one has passed yet. I told her that I didn't finish all of my comptencies till the last day and she was surprised. After I finished my assessment and met up with my ( Read more... )

Today was my first full clinical day at UCIMC. It. Was. Insane. I was on the Oncology floor. They were one nurse short so my nurse had FIVE patients when we first started today. We didn't finish taking report till close to 8! Once we really hit the floor, we were busy for the next 2 and a half hours, checking blood sugars, passing meds, doing ( Read more... )

For the second time, I met the love of my life today. Nursing school is totally turning out to be one of the best decisions ever ( Read more... )