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It’s Been a While

by momentswithmarsha, posted in Nursing School

Hello Friends,

 

My, my, my time has flown!!! So much has changed in my life. I successfully completed nursing school December of 2016 (praise Him!) and passed the NCLEX in February of 2017 (wowzers).

I could go into great detail about all of this but the truth is I already have several videos documenting this on my YouTube channel and I don’t really want to think about the past as crazy and cliché as that sounds. I’ve overcome so much that I just want to look forward to the future and see what awaits me. As of now, I’m still currently jobless 😢 which is sadly expected. I live in a large metropolitan area which is very and I mean VERY saturated with nursing schools and nurses in general. Every public bus, bench, and billboard in a 30 mile radius has advertisements for this that and the third nursing program. My nursing school alone put out over 400 nurses this past December so getting a hospital job let alone into a nurse residency program is something of an achievement and/or miracle.

The hospital that I’m salivating to work for isn’t releasing their new grad RN residency program application until June/July. As you can clearly see it’s February. So I’m figuring out what my next move is and I’m trying to be okay with knowing that I’m not quite sure what that is. I’m using all this free time to do all the things I never had time for in nursing school: Netflix binges, catching up on all the movies I wanted to see, devoting more time to my YouTube channel, reading more, updating my blog etc. Don’t worry, I’m doing some productive things too. I’ve enrolled in a nutrition class as this is my last prerequisite before I can apply to a RN-to-BSN program and I’ve seriously started looking at RN-to-BSN programs. In fact, I hope to start one this summer #allsummer2017. This is what is happening for me and it doesn’t sound terribly exciting when it’s written out. Thanks for following me along on this journey!

Anyways, until next time see ya!

Here are some videos documenting what I’ve been doing these late coupla months, enjoy!

 

 

 

Career Goals: Travel Nursing 🌎? CRNA School 💉?

by momentswithmarsha, posted in Nursing School

Clear strategy and leadership solutions

I want to be a nurse, but I know I don’t want to be a floor nurse forever………so what do I think I want to do? Hmmm

Brief background…I have a previous bachelor’s degree in Sociology. I love the field of Sociology but it was never a field I specifically wanted to work in and how I ended up in that major is another long story for another day. I say to this to emphasize that going into undergrad, I didn’t really have a set career plan and I had no one to guide me either. Now that I’m back in school I know that mistakes I made last time and I’m making a plan for myself now to encourage and challenge myself but also to keep myself on track.

So here it goes…

The plan is to graduate this December, get a job in an ICU (fingers crossed) and gain experience for two years, be a travel nurse for 2 to 3 years, and then apply to school to be a CRNA or Neonatal Nurse Practitioner. I’m still waiting to finish out my clinical experience in OB before I’m sold on the Neonatal Nurse Practitioner path but after talking to CRNAs and watching a lot of videos about what CRNAs do, I am intrigued and fascinated. I know that CRNA school is far farrrr in the distance from now but having this goal gives me something to strive for. I would love to be able to contribute to the CRNA profession as an experienced nurse and also to diversify the field as an African-American. Not really sure how I will fit a husband and kids in this scenario but I’ll leave that to God #HeGotMe. Anyways these are my dreams, seems kinda daunting from now seeing as I don’t even have a nursing license but hopefully I can look back at this post someday in the future and be proud of the nurse I am and the work I’ve done no matter where I end up.