Nursing School Life
Cambrie may be the only one to really appreciate this post, but I'm posting it anyway.
It's nice to start seeing a light-bulb in the middle of the tunnel-of-school. After going to college for almost 11 semesters, I'm getting fairly close to getting my. . . two year degree. Yep. Two years. Associates. Oh well. I'm glad that I'm well into the program I want to be in now and going where I want to go. I've still got 4-6 years of school to go after I "graduate" this upcoming April.
Next semester is my last semester of the RN program at UVSC. I'll get my RN and get to start working as such, and make notably more money than I do now, which will be nice for paying for school and, you know, paying for stuff -- all while getting more work experience along with school experience. Then, depending on who accepts me and other factors, I'll be trying to go to either UVSC or BYUI (online) for their BSN program for 2 more years. I talked to one person in my RN program who is a semester ahead of me, and she described my next semester as "you'll feel like it's a waste of your time." As in, it should be hopefully easier than the past semesters.
A big part of next semester is the "independent preceptorship" part, which we got to choose after class today. What that means is that for 8-12 shifts (depending on how long we choose to stay) we are teamed up with an RN and we essentially do everything as if we were working. For free. Actually, we're paying to work there. The official RN is there to ask questions and get help should we need it. Anyhow, at school, they randomly assigned us the order for who got preference of where they went. I ended up choosing the "PRN pool" at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center. Not my first choice, but still a pretty good choice. My first choices were IMC (Intermediate care -- step up from ICU), or ER (a popular choice). The PRN pool at the hospital is a group of the nursing staff who have no home area they work in. Every day they go somewhere else in the hospital and work where they are needed. That means I'll get to see more of the hospital than anyone else and have more experience doing more things than anyone. I do appreciate consistency, but for a temporary experience where I've got another RN there to back me up and ask questions to anyway, I might as well take advantage of it.
This post seems like a journal entry. And I didn't even cheat and do a copy-paste thing from some sort of journal either. Oh well.
There's your update on my life.
It's nice to start seeing a light-bulb in the middle of the tunnel-of-school. After going to college for almost 11 semesters, I'm getting fairly close to getting my. . . two year degree. Yep. Two years. Associates. Oh well. I'm glad that I'm well into the program I want to be in now and going where I want to go. I've still got 4-6 years of school to go after I "graduate" this upcoming April.
Next semester is my last semester of the RN program at UVSC. I'll get my RN and get to start working as such, and make notably more money than I do now, which will be nice for paying for school and, you know, paying for stuff -- all while getting more work experience along with school experience. Then, depending on who accepts me and other factors, I'll be trying to go to either UVSC or BYUI (online) for their BSN program for 2 more years. I talked to one person in my RN program who is a semester ahead of me, and she described my next semester as "you'll feel like it's a waste of your time." As in, it should be hopefully easier than the past semesters.
A big part of next semester is the "independent preceptorship" part, which we got to choose after class today. What that means is that for 8-12 shifts (depending on how long we choose to stay) we are teamed up with an RN and we essentially do everything as if we were working. For free. Actually, we're paying to work there. The official RN is there to ask questions and get help should we need it. Anyhow, at school, they randomly assigned us the order for who got preference of where they went. I ended up choosing the "PRN pool" at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center. Not my first choice, but still a pretty good choice. My first choices were IMC (Intermediate care -- step up from ICU), or ER (a popular choice). The PRN pool at the hospital is a group of the nursing staff who have no home area they work in. Every day they go somewhere else in the hospital and work where they are needed. That means I'll get to see more of the hospital than anyone else and have more experience doing more things than anyone. I do appreciate consistency, but for a temporary experience where I've got another RN there to back me up and ask questions to anyway, I might as well take advantage of it.
The few; the proud; the male nursing population.
Be jealous. Be very jealous.
Be jealous. Be very jealous.
This post seems like a journal entry. And I didn't even cheat and do a copy-paste thing from some sort of journal either. Oh well.
There's your update on my life.
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