Job update!

I will be working in Mother/ Baby and orienting in the Special Care Nursery!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I really want to work in the SCN, and the manager wants to hire me, but she doesn't have any positions right now...so that's why I get to orient!!! And M/B will be a good experience with healthy babies. I'm so excited!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Update

once again, I have not written in forever. I just thought I would give a brief update. I am now a Registered Nurse, and my husband and I will be staying put for atleast another year, we will hopefully start working on our master's degree's in the fall, yes, I know, a run on sentence :P I've been working on getting my CE credits done for next year, I currently have 6.2(of 24)! Whohoo! I have also been practicing. I really hope to get some gigs for the rest of the summer, and maybe play in an orchestra, I hope, I hope! So if you need a violinist for anything, let me know, I also have instrumental friends...so I can arrange for a string quartet, or other combination of instruments....

Counting Down

5 weeks left of school before graduation. 5 days left of clinicals.
So much to do!
I have a job interview on April 10th with the Clinical Nurse Manager of a NICU in North Carolina! The hospital modeled their NICU after the Dayton children's NICU, so the woman was really excited on the phone when I spoke with her.
Michael has two job fairs to go to that same weekend while we are in NC also!
I will be so excited if I can get a job in a NICU as a new grad! The NICU is really all I want to do, it is my passion! I believe the NICU in NC has a sort of fellowship program, which for the first year there is the nursing orientation along with additional classroom time, and they also arrange for mentors and extra support during the first year.
I'm so excited!

Long Time

It has been so long since the last post. School is going pretty well. Almost half way through the semester. I will be sad to leave the NICU on Tuesday. I love working with the babies. I'm not overly lookign forward to working with big people again, I don't knwo if I will remember how. :P
My class nominated me to play at the Nursing Pinning Ceremony at the end of the semester, so I will be practicing and getting ready for that. It made me feel really good that they wanted me to play again for them (I played at the nursing dedication ceremony 1 1/2 years ago). After I graduate from nursing school, I hope that I can start taking lessons again, hopefully join an orchestra, play in a quartet, and just get the chance for that side of me (music) to grow again. It will be so nice to not have homework all of the time, and work, and school, and everythign else.

Memory from my last Pediatric clinical

Generally when I work with the eldery population, patients think I am somewhere between the ages of 12 and 14, and think I am too young to be working (even though I am 21 and married). I set a new record for myself though at my very last pediatric clinical a few weeks ago. One of my patients was two years old, and her father had brought in some toys for her. When I entered the room she immediately began to show me her new toys. I played with the toys with her for a few minutes before beginning the assessment. As I was listening to her heart, she reached one of her new toys out to me and said "Here, you can have this little girl." Her mother replied laughing, "oh, she's not a little girl, she's a grown up."

End of Semester

what a wonderful day. I finished my final final at 1030 am today!!! I am now awaiting my final grades.....I will know tomorrow about my two nursing classes, but I will not know my final micro grade until I receive the report card. It ws so wonderful today to not have to sit all day long reading and studying. I actually cleaned the apartment (my absolutely fabulous husband even helped (: ) , and I practiced for a little over two hours! I haven't done that in ages!!! Well, because I didn't have time to do anything for the past 16 weeks except study.
Having company at the apartment is fun, I actually enjoyed entertaining, also again probably because I actually could without constantly thinking that I should be studying or reading or doing something school related.

my current agenda for practicing is....
Saint Saens- Introduction et Rondo Capriccioso (for a second time...but it is fun)
Mozart- Concerto in G major (for the 4th time-because in the simplicity it can be difficult)
and Bach- Partita in E major-Prelude (for the 3rd time-good piece with lots of string crossings (: )
(of course there are the scales, etudes, arrpeggios, etc, but didn't feel like they would be interesting to list)
I'm working on pieces that I have played in the past currently so I can brush up on playing, and since I already know how it should feel when playing these piecse, hopefully it will help me to get back into violin shape quicker, rather than starting off with totally new pieces.

I am looking forward to playing in Beauty and the Beast, though it's such a bother to not be able to see the stage from the pit, especially during loooong dialogue sections....especially by the time you are sitting at having performed the musical for the seventh time and are getting tired of sitting and being quiet and staring at the bottom of the music stands swallowed in a sea of stand light cords.

I am amazed at how young high school kids seem, they just get younger and younger every year...the flirtatiousness among the boys and girls is disturbing. If only they knew how insignificant the vast majority of relationships are at 14-15 years old....

well...I felt like writing more, however I just became tired....goodnight

Nothing much yet...

So, I am mearly writing an entry just because I can. This is not an interesting entry, it is just blog. :P I am tired...In 4 days I will finally be finished with the most difficult and busy semester in the nursing program, Lord willing I pass, not that I should really be concerned about that anyway...because I'm not really close to failing anyway. The first rehearsal for the Beauty and the Beast was tonight....I forgot how long rehearsals can be with chairs that have inadequate padding, maybe I will take a pillow with me tomorrow. I have really been enjoying playing the violin recently though, it's like I've had a new begininng after 11 years of playing. I have renewed joy. After school is out, I would really just love to sleep for a week, but I will be working, hopefully at the new job that was offered to me last week. This is not an English paper, so no I will most probably not be editing my thoughts and rearranging the subjects into proper paragraphs. This is more like a brainstorm where my thoughts can be released in a clutter.

Starting a blog

Well...this could be interesting...it seems I was here once before.....yes, three years ago, writing in a blog of sorts. Will this mearly be a reflection of blogs past or a new beginning?