Introductions:"New" and "Old" Students.

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How about a thread that will allow us to introduce ourselves to those who are new and the new students can do the same.

I am Stephany, 42, mother of 3 children, a son 22, a daughter 15, and a son 13. I am an LPN of nearly 11 years, and I am in my first semester of a five-semester rn program.

Care to share?

Specializes in ER, pediatric SANE, Trauma.
well i am a 32 yo single father of three, 9 yo daughter, 5 yo boy/girl twins. i will graduate in december of 2004, from a adn program. tired of school, and careplans, ready to get license and start working as an rn. :smokin: sorry about portraying an improper health habit but he looked cool.

lol i hear you on the careplans!!!!!!!!

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Hi all! I am Jenna, female, 30, Married to the love of my life for 5 years Charlie, Mother of 2 beautiful daughters named Savannah Rayne and Sahara Blue.

I have finished all the pre-reqs for my BSN and start nursing classes/clinical classes in September. I am so excited, but equally if not more nervous! I am a doula (birth assistant/labor assistant) and want to go specifically into Labor and Delivery nursing..

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Hello I am Shonda 27, mother of 2, 6 and 4 and married for 6yrs. I am finishing my pre req's for the Bachelor program and hopefully to enter fall of 2004 or spring 2005.

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Specializes in Telemetry/Med Surg.
Hello I am Shonda 27, mother of 2, 6 and 4 and married for 6yrs. I am finishing my pre req's for the Bachelor program and hopefully to enter fall of 2004 or spring 2005.

Good for you Shonda--welcome aboard! Best of luck to you

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hey everyone! my name's lindsay, i'm a 21 y/o bsn student at the university of charleston. i'm engaged to my wonderful john, who i have been with for 4 years in nov. i love school so far, and i plan on attending grad school to become a crna (nurse anaesthetist). it's been a debate wether or not i wanted to go pre-med, so i took several additional biology classes just incase....but now i realize i will be much happier as a nurse, and i can't wait to start studying as a crna. :rolleyes:

other than nursing....i'm a complete animal lover!!! i adore dogs...all breeds and sizes (but i have a weakness for boxers, pomeranians, rotts, and german shephards). i volunteer with boxer rescue where we take in and rehab abused, unwated, or abandonded boxers and adopte them out to loving forever home :) you can check out www.msboxerrescue.org if you would like to learn more. i also love horses, i've participated in showing saddlebreds and morgans since i was in 3rd grade.

so...there's some stuff about me!

look forward to getting to know you all!!! :) :) :)

~ lindsay

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bsn student

university of charleston www.ucwv.edu

~* god, grant me the serenity to accept the things i cannot change, the courage to change the things i can, and the wisdom to know the difference *~

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hi lindsey!

hey everyone! my name's lindsay, i'm a 21 y/o bsn student at the university of charleston. i'm engaged to my wonderful john, who i have been with for 4 years in nov. i love school so far, and i plan on attending grad school to become a crna (nurse anaesthetist). it's been a debate wether or not i wanted to go pre-med, so i took several additional biology classes just incase....but now i realize i will be much happier as a nurse, and i can't wait to start studying as a crna. :rolleyes:

other than nursing....i'm a complete animal lover!!! i adore dogs...all breeds and sizes (but i have a weakness for boxers, pomeranians, rotts, and german shephards). i volunteer with boxer rescue where we take in and rehab abused, unwated, or abandonded boxers and adopte them out to loving forever home :) you can check out www.msboxerrescue.org if you would like to learn more. i also love horses, i've participated in showing saddlebreds and morgans since i was in 3rd grade.

so...there's some stuff about me!

look forward to getting to know you all!!! :) :) :)

~ lindsay

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bsn student

university of charleston www.ucwv.edu

~* god, grant me the serenity to accept the things i cannot change, the courage to change the things i can, and the wisdom to know the difference *~

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Hi, I'm Dawn. I am a mom of a soon-to-be five year old. I will begin my nursing classes in two weeks, and I am a little nervous.

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Oh, and I forgot to mention that I am 30.

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Hello, all. I am Pat. I am a new old nurse. I graduated this May with an ASN at age 47. I also have a degree in business. I will be married 30 years this November. We have one wonderful son, age 22, who will graduate with a BS in Mechanical Engineering Spring 2004. I work one full-time job as the office manager of the premier air (helicopter) and ground medical transport team, and also am orienting as an RN on the Oncology floor of the same VERY large metropolitan county hospital. My life is very busy. I am feeling a bit overwhelmed with the nursing. I suppose confidence will come with experience, but I feel that I am always on the verge of making a HUGE mistake. I have come close to mistakes twice, but fortunately caught them before they caused a problem. My preceptor says I am doing fine, and all new nurses make mistakes. I've found that if I teeter on the edge of a mistake, I will not make that mistake in the future. The old saying, "we learn from our mistakes" is true, but I don't want to make a big one as far as a patient is concerned. My floor is so busy, with all the meds due at the same time I am trying to do my initial assessment, I feel very overwhelmed. Oncology patients are very sick, and I seem to constantly be giving medications (drips, pushes, lots of pain meds, POs).

Thank you for suggesting an introduction. I hope you other new RNs feel better about your skills than me, but from the feedback I've been hearing, we all go through the same thing. I've been told, the first year is the hardest.

God's blessings to you all. May we be the best nurse we can be.

Pat

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Specializes in LTC, ER, ICU,.

all newcomers, welcome!

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Hi, I'm new to this board.

I'm a BSN Student at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley. I have finished two semesters of the nursing program and have three left! I'm president of our university's chapter of the Student Nurses' Association. I've spent this last summer working as a nurse extender in my hospital's ICU and Burn units.

I have two little girls, 4 and 9.

I'll graduate in a year, August 2005.

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hello everybody!!!

i am 23 with one great baby-girl (20 monthes). i hope to complete my RN ADN on may 2006. i attend Moraine Valley Comunity College (Illinois).

good luck to all of you :) .

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