All About the Tiny Humans
After two full days of classes, I feel like this semester is already flying by! With a dual clinical scheduled in Obstetrics and Pediatrics, this semester is all about the tiny humans , by the way! I...
View ArticleComing Up For Air
Whew! What a long week! In my accelerated nursing program, our clinical courses are structured with "frontloading." For the first two weeks of the course we have class on Tuesday, Wednesday and...
View ArticleSuper {Bowl} Sunday
I'm sure most of you know that last weekend was the Super Bowl. I love the Super Bowl, even when my beloved Broncos are not participating. Most of all, I love the Super Bowl parties! This year, J,...
View ArticleHappy Valentine's Day!
I must be the luckiest girl. I have the best family, friends, boyfriend and dog a girl could ask for. And even though it doesn't have to be Valentine's Day for me to know that, it is a nice reminder...
View ArticleOBjectivity
"The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one."-Malcolm Forbes I'm halfway through Spring block 1, waist-deep in the foreign world of Obstetrics and Labor and Delivery nursing....
View ArticleWelcome to 28
So yesterday was my birthday. My mom and dad were able to come up for a visit and took me out to dinner for my birthday. My mom also brought my favorite banana birthday cake! I was overwhelmed with...
View ArticleI Like My Life!
I saw this web video featured on TV and loved it so much I just thought I would share. Wouldn't it be nice if we could all be this positive, and start out our days like this every day? Happy Monday...
View ArticleHalfway There!
Today is a day to celebrate!I am officially finished with both Peds and OB (successfully complete!), and that means that I am halfway through my BSN program.Hooray!Notice the new countdown widget in...
View ArticleFeeling Springy
Hello again, friends!I realize I've been MIA for the last couple of weeks, taking some much needed vacation time to see family, and diving head first into the dynamic world of Adults With Complex...
View ArticleWishful Thinking
So...remember yesterday when I was all "springy spring spring" but I mad the caveat that I live in Colorado and rarely do we escape April without more spring snow? Well this is what it looks like at...
View ArticleA Letter to My Stomach
Dear Stomach, I was really upset with you this weekend, as you clearly were with me as well. I don't know what kind of bug got into you, but it got us both down for a while. Thanks to you, this is...
View ArticleReflections
There are many times during nursing school that I have felt so totally incompetent, that I believed I truly would never know enough to be a nurse. But there are also those times when I think, "Hey,...
View ArticleOn a lighter note...
My thoughts have been a little heavy the past couple of weeks, as you might notice from my previous post. So to lighten the mood a little, I wanted to share this video that I first saw posted by a...
View ArticleThis Week
This week... I finished my Med/Surg II rotation on the transplant floor, and turned in 27 pages worth of care plans and probably three times that many pages in drug cards. I visited the Bone Marrow...
View ArticleSorry for the Neglect!
Dear Friends,Sorry for the long period of silence. I just got back from vacation in between semesters, and just this week started Mental Health Nursing. I plan to do some posting this weekend with...
View ArticleMental
Hello again, friends. Once again I would like to apologize for the extended silence. It seems that I have come down with a bad case of what can only be described as...SENIORITIS. It happened at the...
View ArticleMental Fatigue
Today, I am tired. Day three of 12 into my mental health rotation, and I am mentally exhausted. Although not nearly as physically demanding as previous rotations, this one just seems to drain all of...
View ArticleAttitude Adjustment
Well. It seems like a lot has happened since my last post. I finished up Mental Health with a good grade. I finished my 26-page paper one hour before it was due at 0700. I took my final a day early...
View ArticleSo Close Now
Well hello again, old friends. I realize it's been a while since we've caught up. I hope you've had a lovely fall. So I completed my Senior Integrated Practicum. I was a little less than excited...
View ArticleOptions
Ok let's talk about options. First, new-grad nurse residency programs vs. preceptorship (assuming that I could actually get a spot in a new-grad program and get hired at a hospital without one, and...
View ArticleAttitude of Gratitude
Source: honeybearlane.com via How Does on Pinterest You know those "25 days of I'm thankful for _____" status updates that started today on Facebook? Well I think those are great. Though I will...
View ArticleBSN
I did it. I graduated from nursing school. When I started an accelerated BSN program in June 2010, I thought it might never end. Nursing school was intense, and consuming, and I did not love every...
View Article2011: Let's Review
So things got pretty busy there in the last semester of nursing school. My little blog kind of fell off the map while I scurried to finish projects and papers and financial aid paperwork in...
View ArticleResolutions
Welcome, 2012. I don't always make New Year's resolutions, because about mid-year, I forget all about them. This year, they are posted on a sticky note above my computer at my desk where I seem to...
View ArticleJust Checking In
So it seems that some resolutions are going better than others. I am almost finished with the two handmade projects I featured in my last post, but as you may have noticed, the "blog more" and "take...
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