sarahdanielle14

I know of 2 who have heard today. I am just praying they still have a few people left to call tomorrow!

Hey guys! I'm in the same boat as you all, waiting to hear..I'm thinking taylor00 is right about Thursday, because nearly half of my graduating class had interviews at Cook and no one has heard anything. I feel like at least 1 or 2 people would have heard something if they actually made calls yesterday or today. I will keep you posted and y'all do the same! :) best of luck!

Emesis is my nemesis. The sight, smell, and especially that horrible wretching sound. I will leave the room until you're done, unless you want me puking along side you.

Thank you, umcRN! :)

Peds cardiac ICU is my dream! I just hope I can actually find a position when I graduate..I know they are hard to come by.

Adult (medical/surgical) has been the hardest for me, probably because I had the clinical instructor from hell. There is just so much to know for adult and it can be stressful. Just keeping on top of things is the key, don't ever get behind, because nursing school will swallow you up.

Anyone in peds cardiac? That is my ULTIMATE love! :)

I hope to have that same experience! Thank you for sharing :)

I'm glad you have had that experience, Fire Bird. Some nurses I have come across let it be known dramatically that they did not want a student. It's very disheartening when that happens, but then you get an awesome nurse and all is well in the world! :)

Pediatric nursing had never crossed my mind. All of my life, I had liked kids, but never really wanted to work with them, mostly because of having to deal with their parents as well. As I entered my 3rd semester of nursing school (Pedi/OB), I came in with the mindset that-I just need to get through this so I can be that much closer to graduation. That very first day at the children's hospital changed my entire life. I'm from Texas and I had the privilege to do clinicals at a major pediatric hospital in the state. I had been there before to visit my friends kiddos that have been in the hospital for various things, but I knew that being here for clinicals would be much different. I was assigned to a medical floor that sees mostly respiratory illness. We took a tour of the unit on our first day, and it was so different to see baby blankets and bottles in the supply room. This still hadn't sparked my interest, I was ready for the day to be over. Then, I saw my first patient. My first pediatric patient was a little girl who was born with every disease and problem you could imagine. She was at the developmental age of an infant but had been on this earth for several more years than that. Seeing the way her mother and grandmother interact with her and how their whole lives revolve around taking this little one to the hospital and keeping up with her treatments finally made something spark inside of me. I don't have kids yet, so I couldn't even begin to imagine what they go through on a daily basis. I had never felt such an overwhelming feeling of wanting to help this little family with everything inside of me. Oh, I hadn't even mentioned my nurse preceptor yet. This woman is the most incredible person I had ever met. Seeing the way she interacted with all of her patients (from 0 to 18 years of age) made me want to be exactly like her. She let me do everything, I even pulled a PICC line from an infant (what a rush!). She was there for observation and guidance, and that's exactly how she wanted it. She wanted me to learn and do all that I possibly could so that I could get a wonderful experience out of this. I will never be able to thank her enough for helping me decide my future path of life. Now I sit here, writing you all an extremely long post (bless you all who have made it to this point), and I just keep praying for graduation day so I can hopefully go back to that same hospital. I want nothing more than to be a blessing to those patients and their families and to my future nurse co-workers who will hopefully someday realize how they have impacted my life in an extremely positive way. Thank you to all the pediatric nurses who bless the lives of infants-teenagers. It is not an easy task and it takes a very special person. ~Sarah Danielle Photo credit: http://lakesidepediatric.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/LP1.jpg

No, thank YOU! Your passion truly shows and it is contagious. Can't wait to be just like you someday :)

And we nursing students (well, most of us) love to be at clinicals and love to help the nurses out. We will do everything for you if we just have that opportunity. Thank you! :)

I know exactly what you mean. Nurses that take us in, whether they expected us or not, and show us how to do things step by step are amazing! I am in my 3rd semester and I'm in pediatric clinicals. I'll be honest, I had no prior interest in pediatrics before this semester, but now I have found my calling! Those nurses are awesome and I want to be just like them someday. Best of luck to you in your last semester(s)! :)

Better advice has never been spoken. Thank you so much for your kind words and encouragement, you must be a real blessing to your students! :)

Hello nurses and nursing students! I just wanted to take a minute and thank all of the nurses that help future nurses everyday while they are in the clinical setting. Nursing students can really tell who is passionate about teaching and precepting and it makes a whirl-wind of difference to our clinical experience. I can't wait until I'm a nurse so I can do that for a special student one day. THANKS! :) ~Sarah Danielle

If that's you in your picture, I don't see why anyone would say that about you. You look precious. Hold your head up high and don't allow hurtful people to control your life. Easier said than done, I know :) Blessings to you all

I can't even believe this. I'm sure you are beautiful, OP.

5.5 years for me! 7 years isn't that long in the grand scheme of life..good luck! :)

I haven't lost friends, but sometimes I feel like I drift away from them because I'm so busy with school and clinicals. At the same time, my friends are drifting away from me because I am single and have no kids and a lot of my friends are starting to get married and have kids. Life happens, and you will drift away from people and gain new friends at the same time. I would definitely say that I've met some of the best friends I have in nursing school, because we all know exactly what the other one is going through. I think that's the best support to have. The people that don't support you or try to act like they aren't interested are probably just jealous that you are going to have an awesome career while they are still working dead-end jobs. Best of luck to you!:)

I am in section 101/111. And yes, I got my student ID and parking pass last week, it only took a couple minutes! You should be able to pick those 2 things up pretty quickly after orientation tomorrow. I am still waiting on my name tag, they're taking FOREVER! I'm now just sitting here trying to decide what to wear tomorrow! Lol :)

Hey Amy! I am definitely going to bring a journal to write in, I'm sure there is going to be a lot of information to write down. As far as parking, if you have your parking pass already you can park in one of the commuter lots, that's what I'm going to do (I have to look at the map tomorrow to know exactly where those are lol) I can't believe it's less than a week before nursing school starts. Where did the summer go?? I have flipped through all the books and I am terrified..especially for pharm. What about you? Have you started reading? See you all on Thursday!! :)

Traditional BSN @ Texas Christian University-Harris College of Nursing! Go Frogs! :heartbeat

Wow, that's awesome! Especially because out of all of those schools you picked TCU... And yes, Vietnam sounds awesome! It's a plan! :) Thanks for the badge info! I guess I completely missed that part of the webpage And don't be nervous, this program is designed for people who have no background in health care. I've worked and volunteered in hospitals before and for the most part, people are really nice and help you out a lot! Occasionally you will come across a rude doctor or nurse, but those are the people that aren't happy with their lives because they chose nursing for just the money and not because they love it. You will see so many things, things you've never seen, and you will never be able to say you've seen it all! (especially in psych, I worked with psych patients) But it will be great, and we all have each other to study with and keep each other sane! :)

You're very welcome!! And my stats class is going just fine...ready for it to be over so we can start nursing school! And yes, I took most of my prereqs at TCC NW and TR (which is my favorite campus!) But I also have been to University of Texas at Tyler and Texas State University. I also applied at Texas State's nursing school but didn't get in..but I like TCU better so I'm happy! :) And girl, be careful! I hope you get well soon...what country are you in? I want to go on an international vacation...there are just so many countries I would like to visit! I'm saving up money so that I can spend a summer abroad for my 'global awareness' course. Oh, and random question...you said you got your name tag at the bookstore, right? Well I went today and the lady there said you have to order them online then pick them up in the store, but I can't find them on the bookstores website for some reason. Is that how you did it? Other than the name tag, I've got everything else taken care of! :)

An- I do have all my books already! That's why I love Amazon.com :) And about the rentals, you really aren't supposed to write in them and stuff, and they're usually picky about that. Also, you may want to keep some of your fundamentals books for future reference..but it's up to you! But if you buy your books from another source it's still cheaper than renting them from the bookstore, and you don't have to give them back. I'm with you, I have to highlight!! And no, when I looked online last, there were no books listed for 20284. I think it may be because that is our clinical and we don't really have a book for that? I'm not sure though..But for 20163, which is our Pharm Lab, I believe the lab book is listed under the lecture books. There are two books listed for Pharm lecture and I flipped through one of them and it seems like it's more of a lab manual. So that's what I think! :)