Since my posts here have become a little sparse, I thought this might be a good time to consolidate my nursing school posts from an older blog. Here's a post about prerequisite classes, originally posted September 24, 2008:
I have a busy day tomorrow... Start things off with an Anatomy & Physiology exam at 9:30, but I'll be up at school long before then, studying. I think having a Bachelor's in Human Anatomy is actually spurring me to study harder. I'm deathly afraid that I'm going to slack off, thinking I can coast on my prior knowledge, and I'm going to get smacked. How embarrassing would that be? Failing an undergraduate anatomy exam would just top off my whole chiropractic school experience. I should be fine, there isn't much material covered, and I am comfortable with the material. Still though, when one gets complacent...
Then I have class until 1400. At that point I head home in time for my girls to get home from school.
Then out the door again at 1630, all spiffed up--suit and tie. My nursing school interview is at 1730. It's an exciting step in my journey, and I hope I'll sleep tonight. I am scheduled to interview with the Assistant Dean, the one in charge of admissions--no pressure, haha! The interview is scheduled for 30 minutes, and my classmates that have already interviewed said to expect to be there for every minute of it. As long as I don't fark up my interview, my advisor has all but said I'm a shoo in. I hope that holds true, and I really hope I don't fark up my interview! We'll find out officially by the end of October. Hopefully the mail moves a little more quickly than it did with my interview letter--it took a full week to travel less than 10 miles, within the same city.
I've been thinking about what I'd like to do once I'm through with nursing school. I'm almost certain that I could be just fine working as an RN in a critical care unit somewhere, hopefully a pediatric critical care unit. I've considered the thought of working on a transport team. How fun would that be? Travel, and nursing. Not to mention all the autonomy being in transit affords.
I have also thought about continuing on a bit. I could see myself as a Nurse Practitioner working on a critical care unit. The salary increase isn't very substantial over working as an RN though. Another thought is becoming a CRNA. Big time salary potential there and that's not something to blow off...
I'm sure the path I'm supposed to take will be revealed at some point. Let's hope sooner than later!
I just referenced my pre-med. school self today too! It's remarkable how life changes so quickly, but that uncertainty of "Will this plan even work?!" was so common to all of us. It's easy to forget about that stage of the journey. Were you a chiro. before nursing school?
ReplyDeleteBy the way, I just realized that I'm not subscribed to your blog (how did that happen?). Rectifying that now...
It is funny how our plans can change to somethings completely different setting us down a new path, sometimes the one less followed.
ReplyDeleteI empathize your application process for nursing school. Unfortunately in the program I was in there were no interviews held. Pretty much you needed to have the highest gpa, most prereqs, and admission tests scores than other candidates.
When you become a number or "percentage", you really start to get nervous!! Not could we not have an interview if needed to talk about a certain score, etc., we had to wait from the time of our application in Nov. until the end of May to find out if we were accepted or not.
Nursing school did a great job of sending me into panic attack mode for 7 months until I got the letter that said "Congratulation, you have been accepted".