As I scrolled to the bottom of the computer screen, I could feel my heart racing, my stomach in knots and my palms damp with sweat. There it was, staring me in the face. My placement test results. In black and white it read, “Enroll in College Algebra or Pre-Calculus.” I couldn’t believe what I was seeing! Was this correct? How could this be accurate when six months previously, I had tested below average? My head spun with emotions as I took my results and walked to the Butler advising office. I sat there with a blank stare on my face as the short haired lady, sitting behind the desk, maneuvered through her computer keyboard. “Any idea which College Algebra class you would like to enroll in for the fall?”, she asked. All I could focus
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I have worked as a Surgical Technologist for a group of orthopedic surgeons for the last ten years. I absolutely love the people I work with and my job, but the dream of becoming a nurse has always been a heart wrenching ambition. I get the wonderful opportunity to be inspired by nurses every day. Nurses who, from the first time you see them interact with a patient, you know in your heart that’s what they were intended to do. A devoted nurse will be selfless by putting their patients’ needs before their very own. That brings up the questions that run vigorously through my mind-where is this wonderful journey that I’ve been so grateful to experience, going to take me? Whose path does God want me to cross? What will my purpose be? Only time and patience will answer those questions. I feel it is God’s will and plan for me to become a nurse. It takes composure, dedication and lots of hard work to not only be a nurse, but a damn good nurse. I want to be that nurse. One that is there to see someone take their last breath. Death is scary, but it’s a part of life we’re all going to have to face. I want to be the nurse that is there to see a baby take its first breath. How incredible would that be? I could only hope for someone to say inspiring, kind things about my nursing skills
I have worked as a Surgical Technologist for a group of orthopedic surgeons for the last ten years. I absolutely love the people I work with and my job, but the dream of becoming a nurse has always been a heart wrenching ambition. I get the wonderful opportunity to be inspired by nurses every day. Nurses who, from the first time you see them interact with a patient, you know in your heart that’s what they were intended to do. A devoted nurse will be selfless by putting their patients’ needs before their very own. That brings up the questions that run vigorously through my mind-where is this wonderful journey that I’ve been so grateful to experience, going to take me? Whose path does God want me to cross? What will my purpose be? Only time and patience will answer those questions. I feel it is God’s will and plan for me to become a nurse. It takes composure, dedication and lots of hard work to not only be a nurse, but a damn good nurse. I want to be that nurse. One that is there to see someone take their last breath. Death is scary, but it’s a part of life we’re all going to have to face. I want to be the nurse that is there to see a baby take its first breath. How incredible would that be? I could only hope for someone to say inspiring, kind things about my nursing skills