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Summer's End
August 8, 2008 9:35 AM by Alexandra Cosan

My May to August insanely long summer has finally come to an end. The feeling is bittersweet-on one hand I will be going back to 'nova, seeing all of my friends and getting back into a routine but on the other hand I will be saying goodbye to free meals Read More...

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Emergency
July 29, 2008 10:12 AM by Alexandra Cosan

After picking up the girl I babysit from camp, I witnessed a very serious car accident. As I ascended up a hill on one of the main roads in the Del Mar/ Carmel Valley area of San Diego, I saw three cars totaled ahead of me. The accident had clearly occurred Read More...

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Summer Meets Intro to Professional Nursing
July 8, 2008 8:49 AM by Alexandra Cosan

My summer has been going quite well so far. I have been babysitting from 9am until 4pm Monday through Friday-give or take an hour or two on each end--and I can essentially dictate my own hours. I guess you could say I'm living the ultimate "employed" Read More...

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Summer Blues?
June 12, 2008 4:56 PM by Alexandra Cosan

With one year of nursing school under my belt the question of how to spend my summer arose. I am faced with a few challenges in regard to working a job or internship that is nursing related. The first challenge is that I have no clinical experience as Read More...

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Communication Challenges
May 27, 2008 2:16 PM by Alexandra Cosan

Although the school year has come to an end, I want to relate a few more experiences I had as a freshman student nurse. As a big portion of my second semester grade in my Introduction to Professional Nursing class (my only true nursing course my freshman Read More...

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Chaos!
May 12, 2008 3:02 PM by Alexandra Cosan

Welcome everyone, to what I like to call chaos, a.k.a. my life as a student nurse at Villanova University. As I reflect upon these last weeks I can barely recall the countless hours I spent studying for a biochemistry test-I like to call it a "school-induced Read More...

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A San Diegan's Survival in Student Nursing on the East Coast
May 8, 2008 9:40 AM by Alexandra Cosan

Before I dive into my day-to-day life, I would like to introduce myself and explain how and why I ended up both in nursing and on the bitterly cold AND grossly humid, East Coast (I apologize in advance for my coastal bias) studying nursing at Villanova Read More...

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