So as many or all of you know I started nursing school this semester! This picture is of my learning community (a group of 10 girls that I spend all day every day with, and all of them are absolutely amaazing), and my FOR (Faculty of Record, Martha, basically our boss, who is awesome). This picture was from our last day of doing our health education project at a preschool, which was way fun. I'm seriously way lucky to be in this group, it's definitely the best one :)So yeah, nursing school is pretty great, it's also totally overwhelming at first, but we get used to it, until we get weeks like next week get thrown at us where we have an exam and two competencies (practical exams). Woot! But it's all good, because one of the competencies is on injections, so now we are all official needle wielders, which makes us official nurses! We did our first injections last Tuesday and totally rocked them. I lucked out and got an awesome partner so when she stuck me it didn't hurt, and she was not a wimp so sticking her was no big deal :) (She's the one in the middle of the front row of the picture). So after all our competencies and stuff, we will be allowed to do some of our skills on actual patients in a long term care facility! Woohoo! It will be legit, and a little nerve racking, but it's all good.
School isn't all fun and games and sticking each other with needles though, it's also a lot of studying and not a lot of sleep and being at school for a long time every day and feeling stressed and behind on studying all the time. But luckily we have our learning groups to lean on for support, so at least we don't have to go it alone :)
So yeah, that's pretty much been my life for the last seven weeks, and it'll be my life for the next two years, so that's kind of exciting. And then I'll be a nurse for real!! And I'll get to clean up poop and puke and blood for the rest of my life, which will be gross, but probably worth it. :)
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