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| First day in the hospital! |
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| First semester clinical group |
I've been through some hard, rigorous academic schools and courses in the military that drove me to tears but this 14 month program was a whole new ball game. This course took me completely out of my comfort zone, put unbelievable pressure on us with people's lives actually in our hands at times and really drove us to expand our knowledge set in the medical field. I loved it! (mostly haha). My fellow students and I grew pretty close pretty quick being we went to school straight through for a little over a year. The people were amazing and I took away a few friendships that I'll have for years to come.
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| Last Test of Nursing School! |
Finally came the last step in nursing school before we could take a breather and start study for the NCLEX (nursing certification boards). Our final Evidence Based Practice Symposium! We worked on this presentation all summer semester and we were SO happy to have it done! Then graduation and awards dinner!
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| RN Andie, At Your Cervix! |
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| Nurse Pinning |
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| Nurse Norah |
A post I wrote from graduation day:
"A year ago we started this CRAZY idea of ours to leave our financially stable life in the military to live delicately on student loans for over a year, while we're both in stressful collegiate programs while raising our baby girl. Looking back we were insane for thinking it would work out...but here we sit, BOTH graduated this week. We both left careers we weren't passionate about and went back to school in our (almost) 30's to purse something that set our souls on fire. It hasn't been smooth, or easy but at this moment it was worth it all.
Kit, thank you for being Norah's main squeeze when I couldn't. For sacrificing your class time to stay home with our sick kid when I literally couldn't miss a hour of class. For listening to my freak outs when I thought I failed tests. For loving me even when I was a total witch to live with and for that time you caught Norah's hand foot mouth disease! LOL I love you. We came, we slayed, we kicked ass.
Norah, thank you for staying late at daycare when Mama had to study at the library. Thank you for giving up your mornings with me when I had to be at the hospital at 6am. Thank you for always mimicking me and reminding me that I had a fan club. Thank you for never holding my absence against me and for always thinking that Mama is your world. We did this because you needed to see us do this. We aren't strong because we wanted to be, we're strong because we're your first example. Much love Norah June "
This post just completely sums everything up. We took a chance. We worked our ASSES off. We slayed. We graduated and finally found our professional passions.
Finally, just this week to close out this crazy chapter in my life I finally took the dreaded NCLEX. This test every RN has to pass to actually call themselves a nurse. There's a 6 hour limit, minimum of 75 questions and maximum of 265. The number of questions you get is based off how well you're answering the questions. I completed my test in 98 questions and walked out of there 28 weeks pregnant and feeling relieved that it was over!!!!
The next day I called the OK Board of Nursing to get my results early and .......
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| Mama PASSED!! |
I can't believe it! I am a licensed BSN, RN!!!!!
I have a verbal confirmation of a position held for me at the first interview I did and first choice I wanted, labor and delivery!!!! I'll hopefully start there full time after I've had a few months off with my newborn. I really can't wait to get back on the floor and get started!
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