The End to My Beginning

Hello readers! I am so excited for this blog to finally be up as it has been talked about for so long and we are finally able to get it running. Most of you are probably wondering “Who blogs anymore?!” Haha, I know right. What even is a blog? My answer, and probably nowhere near dictionary context, simply put is basically a place where thoughts of someone are written down; not in a “personal” way… yet, personal. You see, these are written thoughts of someone that are meant for the world to see. Blogging is a way to get thigs off your chest, write about ideas you have floating around, or to simply vent. This blog has a twist, though. This blog is going to entail the inner thoughts of a nursing student! Mine is the very first entry and those to come will be nursing students who are going to give you, the reader, a glimpse of life as a nursing student. There will be no agenda for this blog. It’s going to be about anything that nursing student wants to write about. The goal, of course, is to let you, our readers and fellow nursing students, feel less alone in the crazy world of nursing school. Why? Because I bet that a lot of the things that go on in my mind are VERY similar to a lot of other students in this program. In the end, all we want to be able to do is relate and understood.

Ok, not going to lie, I am kind of nervous writing this. I just hope that I’m not boring (LOL). I am typing this a week into classes! This is going to be my final first day back. Yep, 4th semester watch out! Oh man, am I glad to say that. I can remember when I was taking my A&P class with Newton and walking to or from it and I would see these nursing students with their red scrubs and sometimes white jackets frantically walking to their destination. I thought, “That’s going to be me someday.” I would even stop them from time to time asking them a million questions a minute. And though I can’t remember their answers, I am that person now. I’m the nursing student wearing scrubs and being asked a ton of questions as soon as they see that red scrub. What an accomplishment.

Going into 4th semester with only one MedSurg class left yet knowing that class is going to be the hardest one yet gives me butterflies. Additionally, we get to go to the ICU and tele floors and learning all that comes with those two floors gives makes me so excited! At first, I wanted to strictly be a peds nurse working in the PICU. Now, I want to be in emergency medicine or the ICU. Personally, MedSurg floors would be an excellent start for any new nurse as you get so much exposure to all different types of illnesses. That’s evident in my past clinicals but.. I don’t know. Maybe it's too much Grey’s Anatomy that has me thinking this way. Hehe. This semester will really show me what my preference is going to be. Either way, I will work anywhere that I can be a nurse. After all, that was the original goal and I can be a great nurse in any facility so long as I apply the holistic care methods that were taught to me.

Probably only my closest peers know the reason why chose to go into nursing. It is because of my little dude who became sick when he was two. His PICU nurse changed my life. She gave me a whole new perspective of life I never knew about. I never saw that level of compassion for a stranger. Her technique and skill just wowed me. The way she knew how to do every single intricate task without flinching. She talked to my little man as though he understood and could respond… like he wasn’t sick. And that just touched me. Heck, I remember when the neurosurgeon came in the room to examine the drain, they placed to lower his intracranial pressure. The look on her face said “Don’t you cause him no harm, don’t you hurt him.” I’ll never forget it. I wanted to be her. I can be her and I will be her. In what setting? I’m not 100% sure yet. I have 5 more months to try to figure that out and go for it. But the “where” of my journey is only a blessing if I get my first choice because I can be that person anywhere I go, and to every patient I encounter. Because that’s what makes a nurse an excellent one, to me anyway.