Here is something to ponder:  What do you do as a nursing student (or a nurse) when one of your parents is diagnosed with a life-threatening disease? Such was the case for me in early 1998 when my dad was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. I was in the first year of my practical nurse schooling, and I didn't know how much of a ...

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'' summer life. It is very thought-provoking to spend a substantial amount of time with a nine-year ...

This is my last week of vacation before I start orientation. On Monday my practice permit arrived via the mail and that is the last piece before boards. I'm studying as much as I can with my kids hanging over me. Three years seemed to go slow and, as I stated earlier, I relish every moment. I hope everyone has a great 4th.

With the summer in full swing, my Mr. Mom duties are coming to a close. Even though I say picking up, dropping off, bed making and separating Thing 1 and Thing 2 (as I lovingly call my children) from their sweating drives me nuts, I know I will miss these duties. This career change has provided me with an opportunity to spend some long quality ...

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 of yet because Villanova's nursing program does not begin clinicals until the second part of ...

  A resolution to be considered during the American Medical Association House of Delegates June 14-18 in Chicago is proposed by the Georgia Delegation, Resolution 214 (A-08). Its purpose is to oppose the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME) participating in any credentialing procedures for Doctors of Nursing Practitioners (DrNP) and ...

As I study for boards and prepare for July, I began to get fidgety and anxious hoping the days go by faster so July arrives sooner. After this weekend, I will not wish the days away. Following a round golf, I sat with two friends discussing distressing news regarding a fellow golfer. This fellow golfer was diagnosed with a degenerative ...

Well I finally obtained a nursing position and will start in July. Meanwhile, I will spend my days preparing for boards. This includes a board prep class. I will not give you the name as I am not a paid spokesman. What I can say it has provided some great strategies to answer questions. Thanks for reading; time to hit the books.

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 year) was scenario testing. Scenario testing was a demonstration of how a student nurse would ...

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 blackout.'' However, what I can recall from those hours are the girls I spent the time ...