I'm a NURSE!

Jumped all over my house yelling when I passed the NCLEX. My kids looked at me like I had lost my mind ?

Running from the mailbox up the stairs to my apartment and jumping on my bed at age 21!

a bunch of us had gone out for breakfast to celebrate on the morning of our graduation ceremony.

There was a notice on the nursing council website that our results would be live from 0900. I recall checking the website slightly early and the list was up. I recall that feeling of my heart in my mouth and saying to the others "its up"

I didn't realise there was about 10 pages of results intially freaked out when I didn't find my number on the first page, the sense of joy when I found my number further down the list.

This was me with the family on graduation. The second time in my adult life I decided to wear a dress and it was the coldest day of the Summer. Thank heavens for graduation robes

7 minutes ago, Davey Do said:

And Steve Martin Rabbit Ears!

Otherwise, I would have looked pretty silly !

Davey, you are just rocking those ears. ??

I could have gone with those, but they wouldnt have helped keep me warm. Literally the entire month before, we'd had 20-25 degree C days. Day of graduation it was like 14 degrees C

Oh yes! Where I’m from we all take the licensing exam on the same day, There’s only 3 days a year you can sit the exam, and all get our results emailed to us on the same day at 0800 a whole month later! I woke up at 2 am unable to sleep I was so nervous. As soon as I clicked the email in big bold letters I saw PASSED! Was actually more a sense of relief that anything.

a couple of weeks later when I got offered a job, that’s when I got the rush of emotions. I had made it! Got myBSN, passed my licensing exam, got a job in a hospital.

I was coming out of a procedure, still heavily sedated, and my mom, a nurse of 40+ years herself at that time, walked up and said "congratulations, Hoosier, RN!" She said I looked at her and said "who the hell are you?" and zonked out...I don't remember any of it

I cried and cried and cried the entire pinning ceremony, and I could not stop — literally.  Even when I thought I was done. I just sat there smiling and cheering for each of my nursing sisters and brothers and the tears just wouldn’t stop.  Our cohort was very cohesive and it was quite emotional.  
 

I guess I finally felt safe to relax and breathe and feel like a human again.  Although, truly, it took more than a year to begin to reclaim some sense of balance.

I went charging through the house, yelling "I got it! I got it!"

I'm from the old days when we took it by hand and had results snail mailed within 8 weeks.  It unexpectedly came in the mail at week #5 when I wasn't even thinking about it.   I just got home from my boyfriends house and it was midnight.  I just jumped up and down so happy.  I lived alone and called my boyfriend who was already asleep.  "I'm happy for you talk to me tomorrow....zzzzzz".