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Having to write an essay for a LPN program on "What You Expect To Obtain From this Program" Here is what I have came up with so far. [COLOR=#000000]When you dream about becoming pregnant, you never expect thechild to have something wrong. You dream of having a healthy, perfect family. Nothingis expected to go wrong. Everything is supposed to be like in the movies andmagazines. Everyone being picture perfect. Your pregnancy has been perfect upto this point. No major issues. You get excited because its closer and closerto the delivery date. Your water breaks and you didn't even know it. Youschedule your doctor appointment for sooner than later because of the backpain. The doctor gives the spill of it probably false labor, breaking yourwater you would know when it happens. The nurse comes back in and whispers inhis ear. He tells you to forget everything he just said and head to thehospital. Your head is spinning. You don't have time to go back home and getyour things. So you send someone else. Maybe it's your husband. Maybe it's yourmom. Whoever it is. You check in at the desk and wait for someone from laborand delivery to show. When they finally do, you get to your room. They re-checkyou to make sure your water actually broke. The nurse, in the room with you,tries to crack jokes and calm your nerves. She assures you everything is goingto be okay. You get moved to your permanent room. Nurses coming in and out.Making sure you have everything you need. Making sure pain management is ok.Helping you move to get comfortable. Every time I had a nurse came in, I wokeup to make sure everything was ok. That I wasn't setting off alarms. That thebaby inside of me was ok. I was put on oxygen twice that night. Later the nextday, I was being prepped to have a C-section. The nurses were all very sweet,and tried to keep me calm. The baby gets pulled out. The cry is weak. Extremelyweak to be exact. The baby struggles to eat. No one can tell me why. Four daysgo by; still no one has an answer. They take the baby to the NICU. The doctorcomes back. The baby is missing the cleft palate. How they missed that whilechecking? I will never know. How I could miss it? I don't know. Years fly by,that baby now has a g-tube. The cleft was repaired. Being in and out ofhospitals the last three years, has made me want to become a nurse even more. [/COLOR] To end it, I had planned on discussing the expectations I have of the program and myself. I have dealt with many RNs, LPNs, and doctors.