Well that title can really make you wonder what this post is going to be about and considering I have not posted in ohh 3 months I am sure you might be curious!
Well here I go... I am in a Nursing class that I absolutely love! Its a class the takes a look at what is going on in the nursing world right now for instance: shortage of nurses, ethic codes, people having no insurance, and just being a nurse in general, so it not a class on how to learn to start an iv or to give a shot to say the least. One of the things in this class that we are required to do is to take a trip to go tour Health and Science Center and to shadow a nurse in the afternoon in an area we would possibly like to work in.
Before going on this little adventure I have been wondering if this is what i would like to do and if this is where God wants me. So I prayed for the last few weeks before going prayed to God to kind of show me that I am on the right track! So when Friday came I had a lot of nerves built up. One because I did not know exactly what all we would be doing and two because I really hoped I got to shadow a nurse in a field I would love to be in.
We were only told a few things about the day we would have which were you must wear professional clothes, shoes that will be good for walking, and an open mind. I had all of those but was a little close minded.
We arrived and got registered! We then sat and listened to a nursing student which was interesting but lets face it, it was 8:30 and I am not a morning person. I did not fall asleep, but drowsy in the mean time. Then we went to the skills lab which has desks and chairs in the middle then along the walls it looks like a hospital with bed and manikins in them. This is were nursing student learn how to do pretty much everything from starting and iv to learning to have good bed side manners. Oh and I learned how to properly put on a pair of gloves and to keep them sterile!! It was pretty neat considering some of the manikins talked!! But lets face it I was ready to get to the hospital for two reasons one to eat to get some energy and two so I could follow a nurse around.
Lunch ended pretty quickly and now was off to find me a nurse!! I bet you i first walked 5 miles, went on 20 different elevator, 5 stairways to get to my nurse. I got to be with a nurse who worked on the labor and delivery-triage floor. On this floor the nurses are responsible several different things. The can be checking someone to see how far women is in getting ready to delivering or checking a c-section incision. Now i really wanted to be in where someone was pushing out a baby, but I believe that was God's way of saying Jessi you have to start at the beginning and take baby steps to get where you want to be! I did not mention before that I was the last person to get paired up with a nurse and that also was God saying Jessi you got to have some patience in this process in becoming and finding a nurse!
Before ever getting to my nurse we did a tour of some different floors. I went to an adult trauma floor which means any car crashes, stabs gun shot, and four wheeler injuries they get it. We then went to a floor that was G.I. tracking which entails what goes in the mouth and does not come out or internal bleeding that floor gets it. We then went to a floor that I was a little unsure as to what it stood for which was the PICU. The PICU is for pediatrics, basically infants all the way to kids at the age of 21. We toured that hall and I know I looked into every room just to see if anyone was in there. There were 20+ rooms majority of them were full, but one thing I noticed was several were just the kiddos with no families. Another girl on the tour asked if they did not have parents and the nurse said a lot usually more than half don't have parent/families that come in with them. That my friends brought tears to my eyes.
To say the least I had a lot of different emotions that day. Some were happy and some were sad. I would tell you more about the floor I was on but cant really because that is a no no! One last thing though that I will share is when I first got to the nurse I was going to be shadowing, i told her what i was here for and she said ok. Then she said well I need to start and IV in room 1 would you like to do it, and I bought peed my pants. My response was ma'am I don't think you would want to me to do that and let alone that patient digging around in their arm to start an IV because I never done that nor have I been to nursing school yet! She thought I was getting ready to graduate nursing school!
Sorry this is long, but i just had a lot on my heart that I wanted to share! Someone once told me this The will of God will never take you where the grace of God will not protect you! And I will leave you with one of my favorite verses: "Don't worry about anything; instead pray about everything. Tell God what you need and thank him for all he has done" I say this God had a lesson for me to start learning or continue to learn through this experience and it is to give all my prayers to him, know that he will not put me in a bad situation and leave me hanging, patience, always start at the beginning and take baby steps, and always to thank him for what he has given me.
