Hi, anyone want to brag a bit? After all, I think we deserve it.
I thought it would be fun to share some of our victories and things we think we should be patted on the back for.
Here's mine....I passed my first skills test this week and got a 100 on our first quiz in Fundamentals which I am soooo proud of because, as everyone knows, nursing tests are different than any other tests, you have to learn to think differently. You have to learn to think like a nurse, and WOOHOO, I DID IT!
Ok- I'll bite. We took our first CPA yesterday and I made a 93%. That is BARELY an A on our grading scale, but still yet it is an A. AND it's the ONLY A in the CLASS!!!!
I realize I have alot of work ahead of me, but that was sure a confidence booster!
Oh what I would do for a 93% to be an A, our grading scale is 5pt. grading scale. 95% and over is an A.....blah! Minimum passing grade is 80%.
Regardless, CONTRATULATIONS! Thats a difficult thing to pull off!
I caught a renal bruit durring a head to toe assessment that the RN missed and prevented a guy from going into respiratory failure durring my last clinical!!! Not to mention the doctor asked what meds I thought the PT should get and I said furosemide and hydralazine to which he said I should go to med school!!! (No thank you to the med school....I have a hard enough time keeping up with the hours the nursing program requires....)
I had the instructor from hell (instructors, don't act like you don't know who you are...lol) discuss my clinical midterm evaluations and tell me I was a delight and that she trusts me and looks forward to working with me as a colleague. She blasts everyone so I was ready for something harsh and it never came.
It's funny because as I consider myself in relation to my peers I don't think much of abilities or my knowledge. This is a huge field with so much to learn and I feel as if all I've done so far is understand how much I don't know.
I've made it through my first 2 years of nursing school on the Dean's List every semester and now I am about to start my 2nd to last semester and am beyond excited and amazed I've made it here :)
I'm in a part time program! I started per reqs back in 2008 and clinicals January 2011 - finally down to 1 year of school left and have gotten Deans List every year! So proud! Next August (god willing) I will be an RN and I'm so ready:-). 3 semesters left!!!!
Besides my husband there are not many people who I can "toot my horn" to so this is a treat :) Of course my most rewarding accomplishments so far has been my four wonderful/smart/caring children :) My school accomplishments have been returning to school at age 37 and maintaining a 4.0 every semester for the last two years! I've had several instructors ask me for my permission to use my essays in future classes as teaching tools. I was the only student in speech class that was asked to video tape my presentation so it could be used in future classes. I know that getting straight A's won't matter much after graduation, and that there is a huge probablitly that I won't be able to keep all A's throughout the nursing program...but for now I'm very proud of myself :) Thanks for starting this thread, like I said, I don't have anyone besides my husband to share my accomplishments with...both my parents have passed, my only sibling rarely speaks to me, and my in-laws are more interested in their granddaughter who is in medical school; so my accomplishments get over-shadowed by hers. Thanks again, I needed this!!
I am just beginning my nursing school journey, but I'm going to pat myself on the back all the same. 5 years ago, I didn't think I'd ever do anything besides work in a factory or as an underpaid waitress. After all, as a single mom of 3 kids, it's not so easy getting a restart in life. I went back to school a year and a half ago with the intention of just getting my LPN, but halfway through my first semester at the community college, my A & P 1 instructor told me that I should work on my prereqs for the BSN program at the university an hour away. She said I was smart enough to go big (no one had ever really encouraged me like that before), so I took her advice and took Chemistry and College Algebra along with all the rest of the required classes...and graduated with a 4.0 in 17 straight classes for my transfer degree and the Microbiology Departmental award. I applied to the university with high hopes and a stomach full of nerves, jumped through all the hoops....And they accepted me!!!!!! Who would've thought? I wouldn't have. I will be sending my old professor a big thank you card and bouquet of flowers upon my completion of my BSN from ASU. I'm just stoked I made it in. Hard work does pay off. I know the next few years will be a huge challenge, but I can do it!
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Oh what I would do for a 93% to be an A, our grading scale is 5pt. grading scale. 95% and over is an A.....blah! Minimum passing grade is 80%.
Regardless, CONTRATULATIONS! Thats a difficult thing to pull off!