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OLCShan04
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Name: Shannon
Location: Houston, Texas, United States
Gender: Female
Interests: God, friends, my fam, HU, OLC, OLC athletics, my church, nursing ....
Occupation: Student
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Member Since:
6/1/2004
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| I guess everyday couldn't be a pretty good day at a hospital. Today, all hell broke loose. We usually have 20-24 patients on our floor, today they slammed us with 30. I've been struggling taking care of 4 patients, I got 5, 2 within 30 minutes of each other. I didn't chart from 1:30pm-7:30 pm. We had a code blue 15 mnts till shift change. Al the day shift nurses were still on the floor at 8pm. There were 4 night shift nurses for 30 patients, ridiculous. The aids were cussing out the nurses, ok well under their breath, but htey made themselves heard, because they had 15 patients. It was awful. I was awake all night remembering the things i forgot to chart. Its days like these when I wonder if I'll ever make a somewhat decent nurse. My poor patients waited forever for things today, going to hteb athroom, getting medicine, pain meds, ect. On top of that, even though I didnt lose a patient last night, i could only think about it ... i hate that part of my job. its a part of it, but i wish it would go away sometimes. After 14 hours and ten minutes, i finally left ... i couldnt stay, though it was probably the right thing to stay longer. i just couldnt. I felt awful walking away from the chaos, but my brain wouldnt function anymore.
Anyway, I got home and my mom had sent me this DVD of pics from graduation week. I started remembering nursing school and all I have worked for. And I remembered .. yes this is what I want to do. With the Lord's help on these awful, awful days ... its what I want to do. Because God is glorified even in the bad days.
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| What an amazing God we serve. I cannot fathom the amount of things that have happened in the past two and a half months. Its still surreal that when Harding starts classes on Aug 20th I won't be among them. I'm done, i graduated and moved on. thats crazy! course, i still havent gotten my diploma yet but nonetheless, im done.
Not only that but excactly two months ago I married my best friend. And while God is teaching us so much about each other and life, its been a blast. I'm learning a lot about being a wife and seflessness. Never realized how selfish I was ... just in how i lived my single life.
And now I am a full fledged legal RN! Fully responsible for any patient i take care off. Now that my friends is scary. I think I have proven to myself that all things are possible when God is in control and is guiding your life. I could never have done htis without it. While it feels like the end of a long long journey, it is yet only the beginning. What lies ahead is thrilling and unknown. thank God for His faithfulness, love, strength, and wisdom.
-Shannon, RN, BSN :)
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| Nclex tomorrow ... pray!! God is bigger than tests ... thats just what i have to remember.
Lost my husband to camp again for two weeks ... its sad.
Back to studying!!
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| Life is good.
Its weird that only after a month I am so used to Osaro always being here, always coming home to me at night or me coming home ot him. now he is at camp and i cant handle the emptyness of the house ... waking up all by myself in the morning ... it makes me really sad. im glad imworking so much this week but im still sad.
my life has settled into some sort of routing, work, housework, study for nclex, workout, sleep. pretty much every day for me. work is great ... im learning so much, i cant even handle how much i dont know about nursing ... its ridiculous but hopefuly ill learn lol. God is so good, we are so blessed ... dont take a day for granted ... you'll run out too soon!
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| Well I would say my life has now changed forever. Graduation and the wedding went off witout a hitch and now I am here in Searcy with my huband and working full time as a nurse at white county. Whoever would have thought thsi is where God was leading me so many years ago when I was making decisions about nursing and coming to Harding.
I'll start with being married: I absolutly love it! I love spending so much time with my best friend, waking up next to him, knowing he is just downstairs all the time when were both off work, and coming home to him. My best advice to anyone is to marry your best friend. SO many times it doesnt even feel like we are a "married" couple in the sense that were just two best friends sharing our lives together. And we have now been married a whole 16 days! Life is good.
Working as a full time nurse: I love it too!!! I love being at work and knowing it is work and i'll get to go home and do nothing but prepare for the next day. What is even better is I have so many days off. I worked last Monday, then didnt work again till Fri-Sun and now i have off till Thursday. So wonderful. I've watched movies, played Halo 2 with osaro, slept, napped, did housework, u name it. Anyway, on to nursing htough- i love it. Its stresful and Im still learning oh so much but I love patients, even when they are grumpy, I like to make their day better, feel like the day accomplished something for them. I appreciate their hard honesty sometimes in how tey feel, and genuinely trying to help them feel better. i like problem solving in the hospital for real people, its so much better than problem solving for a grade that will never matter again (though it did teach me how, besides the point! lol!). I just pray God continues to give me the passion and desire to keep him the center and focus on the people involved not the politics of the hospital. Lord willing i'll continue to grow in knowledge and ability.
Well thats the updates on my life. enjoy! :)
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