On to Another Semester

August 11 marked my last day of my first semester. We all got a five day summer break and are now onto the next semester. I made a whole list of things that I wanted to accomplish in those 5 days, like cleaning my house, catching up on this blog (I have so much to post about Jayla) and blog comments, painting Jayla's room, etc., but instead, I spent some much needed play time, with Jayla and some of my closest friends. I was lucky enough to spend an entire weekend at Hotel Valley Ho, RELAXING by the pool, enjoying cocktails, and FINALLY getting a tan, with my best friend Sarah. I also FINALLY made it over to play with Camille and beautiful Avery. And wouldn't you know during my break we had six hours of school work and eight hours of Banner learning center modules to complete. Gotta LOVE nursing school!

And now I am onto my second semester. It's crazy to believe I have a little less than a year left...

In our first two days back I learned how to care for patients pre-op/post-op, already started clinicals at Banner Thunderbird Hospital (my very first day), and how to insert a catheter in patients of all ages, male and female. Next week in clinicals I will be using these skills as I get to take care of real patients pre-op/post-op, be present in the OR room to observe a 4-5 hour surgery (I CAN NOT wait for this)... The list goes on, but I wanted to share what's the most exciting for me!!

In the meantime I wanted to share some video's from friends I have met along the way.
The first video was made for an aesthetics project by a fellow classmate, Alicia. This video is my class/cohort of the 2012 accelerated nursing students. I love this video because it pieces together our entire first semester so well.




These next two videos are from the 2011 accelerated nursing students, who just graduated August 5th. They were the first accelerated class to graduate from the downtown campus, and the first to have a summer graduation ceremony. We were told when we started that the summer graduating classes needed to wait until December to walk with all ASU grads, but this class pushed for a summer ceremony and one that only honors the nursing students.

These videos were created by Bethany (who was the College Council of Nursing Students President), the first one was her aesthetics project, and the second is her speech from graduation. I had the opportunity through CCNS to help out with their graduation and truly loved Bethany's speech. It was such an inspiration to be a part of this special day. We all need reminders from time to time, to help get us through this intense program.





I also wanted to leave you with this...

"BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN NURSING (BSN) has been chosen as the TOUGHEST course among all the courses including MBBS, BCOM, Bca, IAS, IPS and ENGINEERING by the Guinness Book of World Records, on 18 MAY 2011. It has 64 university exams + 130 series exams + 174 assignments within 4 years (max 1000 working days)."

If I am missing forever again, you'll know why.
Thank you to all my friends and family for, believing, dealing, and being there for me. I love you all and can't do this with out you!