This is going to be incredibly dramatic. Give me one, okay? I sit here tonight, the night before the biggest exam of my life. The night before the most important thing i've done since i decided to follow Christ. Oth…
Okay, yesterday i scheduled my NCLEX-PN exam. (For those of you who don't know, its the nursing licensing exam.) I've been studying some questions on my NCLEX review stuff and suddenly i'm REALLY nervous. I shouldn't…
I am generally not as "Type A" as people would believe about me. If you come to my house, you will see that i never make my bed (don't see the point) and i usually have a pile of laundry somewhere other than the laundr…
Doing the full time student/almost full time working thing again when i'm about to turn 32 is definitely not easy. I was lucky this year. (Or should i say blessed?) I didn't have to work through about half the year.…
I had Maternal and OB today. Today, we discussed different types of contraceptives. We laughed in that lecture more than i've laughed in nursing school combined. It was discussed in a very mature way... but my OB tea…
Ugh. I don't have time to deal with freaking drama. My friends are all mad at each other right now, and being the "Switzerland" of the group, i'm kinda caught in the middle. I see everyone's side, but if i hear anothe…
We talked about abortion today in OB class. There is a major reason i don't want to be an OB nurse. I am not called there, for one, but mostly i don't ever want to be put in the position of "being okay" with an aborti…
We have to redo our checkoffs this week, to make sure we didn't forget anything from a previously mastered skill. I banged through most of them, but when it got to trach care, i floundered like crazy. So, today i go to…
In school, we are constantly learning about charting. There isn't a separate class for it. We constantly work on it in every single class we take and we get better throughout. Of course, most of our charting experienc…