One year down, one more to go...

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Hey everyone :),

I was sitting here thinking about my first year of nursing and has deiced to make a post about it to see how the rest of you all feel too. It's funny how fast time flies and how much I have learned in a single year. Even funnier, is how something as simple as taking blood pressure was once intimidating for me and now I feel very confident about it. This first year of nursing really has been a challenge, however I thank God that I have managed to make it through. I am still very excited about my future career in nursing & can honestly say that I loved my clinical rotations, patients, and everything else that I have experienced throughout the year. I am now more excited than ever to finish school. Only thing left for me to do now is tackle this Hesi exam come the end of July and finish up my last year. No need to worry though because I know that with God by my side & my continued confidence, determination and hard work that I can pull it off. With that being said, I hope everyone is still enjoying nursing as much as I am and I wish you all the best of luck! Please feel free to share your thoughts, opinions and experiences as well. :nurse:

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Congratulations! I think that first year is such a huge hump to get over b/c its not just learning how to do things, but learning how to be confident in yourself and get over the self-consciousness about being a student and feeling like you don't know anything.

Have a great 2nd year!

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Thank you!

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i recently finished my first year of nursing program too!! 1 more year to go and we will be RNs by May of 2011!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

good luck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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The blood pressure comment took me back to my first year. I was so god aweful at everything back then. I had to take a bp on my teacher and I fumbled the whole way through it. The cuff even came to pieces - it was so embarrassing. She got pretty mad with me for being hopeless but now I am nearly finished and am quite good at it. I still can't look the teacher in the eye :o

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sept 2010 will begin my final year! i should be so happy, but right now i just feel so totally exhausted and overwhelmed...i am taking summer classes pharm and med-surge and its just alot right now...hopefully if i make it thru the summer I will be rejuvenated come sept!! i have learned soo much this past year, but still feel i have so much MORE to learn(and im quickly learning that pharm is brutal yet interesting)...in additon to school i work full time, have a family blah blah..i just feel bummed out right now...but congratulations to you guys!

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4 more weeks and I'm on summer break. My graduation is June 2011 so I'm almost at the 1 year to go mark too!

It still just feels strange that I've got almost a year behind me. BP, VS, assessments aren't big bad scary things anymore. Neither is going into a patient's room and taking care of them.

We just got training on IV's. Now THAT's something I'm a little intimidated with. Esp since I'm not even going to get a chance to do them for 2 weeks b/c I've got Psych rotation. And then it's only 3 more clinical days until vacation. I'm going to need a refresher course after 6 weeks :lol2:

Cheryl

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