A Sign From God?

Nursing Students Pre-Nursing

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Every since I changed my major to Nursing, my life suddenly changed in its own little way. One night I was on the phone with a friend who is now a graduate MLT (medical laboratory technician) and told me all of the color codes in the hospital where his clinical site was. There were 14 colors and I memorized every one of them by heart in less than 2 days. Recently, I was going to a tutoring session and I happened to come across a building where most of my classes were held and I saw a stack of books on the ground all out in the open for the public to grab and go. I first saw the basic books like psychology, chemistry, etc. AND THEN I SAW NURSING BOOKS. A PATHOPHYSIOLOGY TEXTBOOK, A LAB MANUAL FOR MEDICAL-SURGICAL, VOLUME 1 & 2 OF NURSING FUNDAMENTALS, AND A POCKET OB/GYN NOTEBOOK PAD. They were ALL the books I need for nursing school in that particular stack. Best believe that I took all those books knowing how EXPENSIVE nursing books are. Could those books be a legit sign that the field of Nursing is the path I need to follow? Did I make the right decision of becoming a Registered Nurse?

Please....Just please tell me that you're trolling us all.

OP, you don't even understand the simplest basics for a moral character. So no, I don't think God is driving you or whatever. Stealing isn't okay in any religion/culture. Neither is making weak excuses for wrong behavior.

Rethink your "calling" because mentally you are all over the place.

Ugh "so in way of common sense there was a sign that said free to good home"

If you're not trolling, how sad. Reality is as much as we wish you'd be just trolling there's many like you and some become nurses anyway.

Learn the difference between magical thinking and spirituality. Then learn to go to one of your school's offices and give them the books explaining where and when you found them. I wonder why you didn't take it as a sign from God to do the right thing instead.

I can't speak for you or God, but if these happenings get you to where you want to be then by all means take them as a sign. I just hope that you did not take someone's textbooks when they still needed them. I personally would have made an effort to contact the school of nursing, lost & found, or the textbook people to leave my contact information if someone came looking for their textbooks. Having to purchase more books is not very friendly on the piggy bank.

Well I'm laughing at the whole spirituality thing. but a pile of books laying around may indeed be looking for a new home. You guys didnt donate your nursing textbooks back to your school when you were done? I know I did. A big pile just sitting there in the hall, ripe for anyone to take. No signs needed. Usually right around this time of year cause we knew the incoming class had orientation and are beginning in a few weeks.

I used to memorize all of the songs to my New Kids on the Block albums within days of buying them. Does this mean I can become a member of the band now?

Well, even if nursing isn't for you....at least over $1200 worth of books for free..... lmao!

I just hope it wasn't some poor bloke who had laid the books down to go quickly run and grab something to come back only to find that their entire stack they had just got for nursing school was missing. But, hey, maybe they took it as a sign that nursing wasn't for them. lol

I will just write this sentence to be notified later of other amusing posts ;-)

Specializes in SICU, trauma, neuro.

As my screen name may hint, I believe the Bible is the only definitive source of communication from God to man. Waiting on a sign, or a still small voice or whatever leaves way too much room for wishful thinking...plus it closes the door on any counsel from the wise people in your life. Quick real-life example: woman is estranged from her husband, but still married. She becomes involved in another relationship, and swears God told her it was ok. Well, the Bible says adultery is a sin... but NOOOO, God TOLD HER it was okay....

Did you make the right decision? Possibly. If you are successful and satisfied in your career, that's a clue. If you struggle just to earn C's in class and can't critically think in clinical, that's also a clue -- and no amount of mysteriously appearing books will indicate otherwise.

Specializes in SICU, trauma, neuro.
If anything those books would've went into the book donation box here at my school [/Quote]

Oh wait, when I first read your post, I thought you meant that these books WERE in a donation box, or free table or whatever. :eek:

Well I'm laughing at the whole spirituality thing. but a pile of books laying around may indeed be looking for a new home. You guys didnt donate your nursing textbooks back to your school when you were done? I know I did. A big pile just sitting there in the hall, ripe for anyone to take. No signs needed. Usually right around this time of year cause we knew the incoming class had orientation and are beginning in a few weeks.

We had to convince a classmate not to throw his entire set of texts into a dumpster. That was back when texts cost about one quarter to one third what they do today. He was more disappointed with his nursing education than the rest of us.

Most of our class made a pile of books right outside the school's nursing dept hallway immediately after the final exam of the last semester. I held on to mine in the event that I needed to look over it while preparing for the NCLEX - which turned out to be entirely false as they sat there collecting dust over the summer. So hence when I had to go back to my school to pick up my official degree (the ones we got at graduation were decoys...go figure), I made an additional stop to donate my books as well. So i'm not sure why people would think a MOUND of random textbooks would just be laying around for no apparent reason and that OP would be stealing when it seems to me that it was textbooks that students simply donated dumped after they couldn't sell it back to the bookstore.

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