Last Post!!!

When I reflect on this journey, I feel overwhelmed at how much time and energy has been spent working towards this final class of nursing school. When I started this program, 3 years ago, I never anticipated how nursing would affect my life, my relationships and my sanity. I have made amazing lifelong friendships and learned SO much about myself. It has drastically changed my life and I am so happy and excited for what the future will bring (I am also terrified). Every different rotation through each different hospital has affected my nursing experience and shaped what kind of nurse I hope to be one day. Nursing has given me so much hope and respect for the amazing patients, fellow medical staff and the families that I meet. I am so grateful for the wonderful educators who have always supported me and my colleagues through the good times and the bad.

Nursing is not always the most glamorous job, but it is very rewarding. There is not a better feeling than when a patient reaches a long sought after goal towards bettering their health status or knowing that you have made a difference in a patient or their families lives. I believe that my time in nursing school has really shaped my philosophy of nursing which is however I find my patient….I hope to make their life better. I mean that in the sense of better either through educating them about something that will positively affect their life or making them more comfortable by providing a bed bath or simply listening to what they have to say and making them feel important.

I am so excited about this journey and cannot wait to see where it takes myself and my fellow peers. We have all worked so hard, made sacrifices and learned SO much. Thank you so much for such a beautiful experience and I can’t wait to see everyone at graduation!