Tag: psychiatric nursing

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!

 

 

 

Nursing School Update: Psych & Med-Surg 2?

by momentswithmarsha, posted in Nursing School

Hello guys and gals!

Long time no speak.

I’ve been pretty busy with school. I’m in the final stretch of nursing school (73 days ahhhhh). I CANNOT believe it’s almost over. Seriously. 2016 flew by! Anyways, I passed psychiatric nursing (thank you Lord). I ended up with a B in the class. I was kinda bummed out because I ended up with a 92.1 and if you read my blog post about the basics of my nursing program, then you would know a 93 is considered an A and I was just about a point shy of an A. Either way, I’m still grateful for passing the course with a decent grade and I also did really well on the HESI. I got an 1167, this was the highest I’ve ever scored on a HESI exam. I was really proud of myself. Overall I did enjoy the course. Psychiatry is such a complex topic and learning about different mental and addictions disorders was extremely interesting. Ehhh, I’m not completely sold on the idea of becoming a psychiatric nurse, however, I’m not as opposed to it as I was before. Either way, psych patients end up in all areas of nursing so the content is very relevant to any nursing specialty. My clinical experience was pretty brief. This is mostly because the facility I was at had a lot of high-risk patients so students weren’t allowed on the floor for longer than an hour. That was psych in a nutshell!

On to the next one! So advanced Medical-Surgical nursing or Medical-Surgical nursing 2 started. This class is 6 weeks and I’m already two weeks in. Next week with be the beginning of the 3rd week. Up to now there has been one exam on the endocrine system that was this past Friday. So far I like the content. The endocrine system is pretty damn important and now I find myself looking at strangers who look like they may have an endocrine disorder and trying to diagnose them. I studied so much for this exam and I felt very prepared. After taking the test I knew I had passed but there were a couple of questions I was unsure of. And of course most of those questions were select-all-that-apply. Those are always the questions I struggle with the most. In this class there will be 2 Tests (25% each), a final (35%), and the HESI (15%). I’m trying to start this course off strong and seeing as this first test was worth 25% of my grade I don’t have much wiggle room to not do well. Anyways that’s my update with school. I’m still chugging along. Hello to all my new subscribers/followers! Thanks for following my journey ^_^

Until next time…..see ya!