Posts Tagged ‘nursing

Getting Things Done

May 12, 2008

Oh my gosh. Stuff is happening, people. For starters, I graduated. After a longish boring ceremony, they finally announced, “You may now move your tassels from the right to the left,” and a shiver went down my spine. It was a very special moment. Then we sang “The Eyes of Texas,” and it was over. Yay me! Only one more hurdle to jump before I am an official RN. I have to pass the NCLEX, the state board exam. I scheduled it for June 11 at 8 a.m. I am nervous, and really need to kick the studying up a notch. To that end I am taking another review course this week. In fact, it is going on right this…
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Pinning

May 9, 2008

The pinning ceremony is a nursing tradition. Nurses wear pins (usually on their name badge at work) to identify what school they graduated from. These pins were presented to us at the ceremony last night and we were able to choose someone to pin us. I chose David, as my husband-to-be. But before all of that happened, my parents, David, and I all arrived waaaay early because we didn’t know how the traffic would be. So we decided to get some picture-taking out of the way: And for some reason I find this very amusing: my mom trying to take a picture of David and me without realizing that the camera was set to record. Obviously I don’t have much…
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Last Lecture

April 16, 2008

Here I am at my computer in my LAST LECTURE of nursing school!

De-stressing

April 15, 2008

So I passed my test! With a very high score, actually, and I have no idea how I managed to do that because there were so many questions I was unsure of. Anyway, remember how I said that the coming weeks will probably be stressful? Well scratch that. I defy stress! I’m tired of it. Finals aren’t for a couple of weeks and there’s really nothing for me to worry about until then. And let’s be honest, I’m not really worried about finals either. Nothing can keep me from graduating, and I already have a job. Last night I set the tone by renting myself a movie, something I hardly ever do anymore. Since David couldn’t be with me I…
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Last Clinical

April 8, 2008

This is me with my preceptor Carol in the surgical ICU of Methodist on my last day of clinical. It felt really good to finish, but it was sad at the same time. Carol and I have been working together all semester and I really learned a lot from her. The next time I’m working at Methodist I will actually be getting PAID for it!