So Much has Changed

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I am not even sure where to begin… I was so nervous and timid and would get flustered over the silliest of things. I didn’t have a system to get ready or a system to start my day at the hospital. Now I am much more comfortable at the hospital and I have a working system. I know that will continue to improve and I will always be working on modifying my routine.

I enjoy being thrown in the mix and learning on the fly. I feel like a lot of nursing school was just that. The famous saying “I’ve done this a thousands times”

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when the truth is this is your first time on a real person. One day that saying will be true but I will still not be an expert. I think that might be the art of nursing, never being an expert robot, but being a flexible confident compassionate person always ready for the challenge.

I am excited for the next step: being a new grad. I will take what I have learned in school and be able to stand up straight and take on the challenge with a smile!

I will one day do this a thousand times.

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Final Reflection

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Sometimes I get overwhelmed and feel like I haven’t learned much, but I know that those moments are when I am overwhelmed by the present and the things that I don’t know and have lost sight of the big picture. When I think about how things were in the first weeks of our first semester, I realize how far we have come. I feel ready to take the next step in my nursing career and have more responsibility with patients. I guess a concern of the final semester is getting out of practice regarding clinical skills, but I think those will come back to me fine once I get on a floor.

I had an interesting experience over the weekend that helped me see where I am today in my education and greatly appreciate it. I was speaking with a friend about their family member with a heart condition, and she asked me to explain the pathophysiology to her. As I started with the basics and got deeper and deeper into the description, I realized that I felt like I was walking through a cave with a flashlight. I could never have described everything in that cave from the outside, and I would have told you that I didn’t know much about what was in there, but as I began to talk each piece of information I shared brought up several more, just as more of the cave is illuminated with every step forward. It was a powerful feeling to realize that even though I can’t call forward everything I’ve learned at once, it is all right beneath the surface, just waiting to be called upon.