With Ixchel's gracious guidance, Here is this weeks What I Learned This Week. Since Thanksgiving is this week, I want to focus on being thankful for being nurses.
I am thankful that there was a nursing program in my hometown. This is what launched my nursing career. Amazingly, it was the only program I applied to, it never occurred to me to apply any where else. I am thankful that I was even accepted.
Also Thankful that my hometown had a hospital that hired me as a teenage LPN in Labor & Delivery working every Sat & Sun. That job allowed me to continue on for ADN, which led me to a much bigger city, Phoenix AZ. I am glad that although I was a new grad RN, I had a couple of years experience.I am very grateful that I was able to complete my BSN back when there really weren't any RN to BSN programs. I was fortunate to have served in the Navy Nurse Corps. And thankful that so far, have not had student loans. I am thankful to have 2 local universities that have DNP programs.
For those that will be away from your families on Thanksgiving Thursday, myself included, it really is an honor as nurses to be there for patients and patient's families.
What I learned this week: I learned that people of Asian heritage can have Alcohol Induced Red Man Syndrome.
I learned that all the fuss about ICD10 was just that, fuss. It really is making more sense every day.
