a term for the books

WE LOVE THE LITTLES!! 

So far this semester, we have gotten to do and see so much! Peds clinical has by far been one of our favorites!  Having a teacher that is so passionate about what she does and lives for has made a huge difference on our experiences in clinical.  We both agree that we have learned so much more than just skills and knowledge but life lessons that we will carry with us throughout our nursing career.  

In just a few weeks, we will sadly be leaving our peds rotation and moving on to OB..oh the wonder.  Our clinical will be in Baton Rouge and we are looking forward to helping bring new littles into the world.  :] 

We have a pretty big peds test this Wednesday and quite frankly ready to get it over with! Sheesh.... NCLEX Lady...  

In other news, we have been trying out other study locations such as different PJs and Books-A-Million.  We love trying out these new study abodes for it is a nice change of scenery.  

And even other exciting news: -drum-roll please-

Your local Nurse's Christian Fellowship chapter is coming back to life!  We are very excited about getting involved on campus and in the community both as student nurses and believers.  Our next meeting is a week from today and we will be electing officers and discussing opportunities we want to invest in.  We will surely keep you updated on this new adventure of ours! 

 

Well lovely blog readers, we gotta get ready to roll out!  Yay for quality time and long commutes!  Have a Marvelous Monday! 

Love your bubbly bloggers -Kelly and Aimee-       :]

Friday night dates

Well readers, it's just another typical Friday night.  I'm spending time with Ball & Bindler and Wong.  Can I just say that these guys are lousy dates!  Sheesh!  They don't even know how to buy my PJs .... dates these days...  hahaa  :]  anywho, enough about my non-existent social life

This week hasn't been much of an exciting one.  Just the mundane seemingly endless commutes, late nights spent studying,  5am wake up calls for clinical, and just your typical nursing school frustrations in between.  

This weekend will be spent with our noses in the books, studying for our next peds exam.  

Hopefully soon we will update you on life (or lack there of)! 

Have a happy weekend faithful blog readers! 

-Aimee, Ball &Bindler, and Wong-  

:]

  

simple smiles and magic bubbles

This week my clinical group was encouraged to think about how an ordinary nurse can do something extraordinary.  As this resonated with me in clinical this week, I was thinking on the broader spectrum of things- more heroic.  And then, without even realizing it, I learned how to do just this - how to go beyond ordinary in the smallest of things.  These small things may consist of stickers, coloring pages, stuffed animals, video games, fish, and lastly bubbles (in pediatrics, they are seriously like magic)  :]  I've realized that as a nursing student -especially in pediatrics- I can get so caught up in trying to do the "nurse-y" things and forget about how important it is to recognize the smallest of needs in the little ones.  I've realized how traumatic it is for a toddler to have to be hospitalized, and how much I can do as a nurse to ease that fear.  It made my day just to see my precious little one compose the smallest of smile.  Today I felt that rewarding feeling, the one that makes all the studying and paperwork and lack of a social life (hahaa) worth every minute of it.  Today I was proud to be a nursing student, knowing that even while I am still writing SLUSN behind my name, I have the power to make a difference in a child's life.      

Love y'all!

-Aimee

NCLEX Lady

 So after our insanely hard exam today, we can rest assured that we have learned at least one thing...

....we finally found the "NCLEX Lady" !!!! For those of you Hurst Reviewers out there, you know what I'm talking about. 

For the rest of you lovely blog readers, look forward to a post coming soon! :]

comforting reminders

What a busy week it has been!! It was our first week back in clinicals and we went into it full force.  It's been -by far- my favorite first week of clinicals yet! I love Peds so much!! In the past two days of clinical, I have had so much experience already and gained a vast amount of new nursing knowledge :]  -I even started an IV on an infant!  Through my experiences this week I was both physically and emotionally drained. I was also reminded of several things because of these life experiences.  The first being that as a Peds nurse, every shift is an opportunity to give a precious child unconditional love; to know that at least during my shift, they are well loved and cared for.  I was reminded of the unconditional love that God shows us, and that because of that love we are able to love others unconditionally- no matter what.  Lastly, I was reminded that although we may not have family who necessarily look out for our best interests, we have an Abba Father.  Who meets our every need.  Who is standing there with open, loving arms to hold us and keep us safe when no one else is there.  ... and this is where I find my comfort tonight.  

Love, Aimee 

"I have told you all this so that you may have peace in me.  Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows.  But take heart, because I have overcome the world." John 16:33    

pancake parties, pediatrics, and poster boards

It's the start of a new semester! YAY for Pediatrics and OB!!

To kick of this semester, we had a pancake night at Kelly's house! Complete with banana blueberry pancakes and quality time with friends! :]  

We started our first week last Wednesday with Skills lab and Pediatric lecture in Baton Rouge! -welcome back to our life 6 AM commutes!  It was so great to be reunited again with all of our nursing buddies and exchange stories about our wonderful nursing schoolless summers.  

Thursday we went to our Peds clinical hospital orientation.  We did a scavenger hunt on the unit to get comfortable with all the new equipment and surroundings (complete with full collections of DVDs and video games).  Our wonderful clinical teacher told us that "having stickers in your pocket this semester will be just as important as having your stethoscope!" -from this moment on we knew it was gonna be a great semester!

Friday we went to a local daycare to get comfortable with assessment and interaction with children of all ages!  We'd say that's a pretty great start to clinical :]

This weekend we have been resting up and starting to study already! 

-out with the notecards and in with the poster boards-

We are looking forward to blogging about our upcoming, adventure filled semester! 

We've missed you dearly fellow blog readers! See ya soon! 

Love, Kelly and Aimee

well hello there summer!!

Well blog readers, as you can see we have survived the dreaded 3rd semester aka hardest semester of nursing school!! We could not be more excited!!!!  We decided that for our last blog of the semester we would share some of our bittersweet memories with you.  This semester has by far been our favorite!!  Here are some of our favorite memories!

We were both pretty nervous about having to start IVs -but more nervous about being stuck with an IV during skills lab.  We both survived the sticking part and successfully learned how to start an IV!! :] 

-please note in the right lower box, our make-shift skills lab kitchen set up! 

One day while on a quest for coffee to get us through a long night of studying, our lovely GPS brought us to the CC's local distribution center.  Needless to say if the local grocery store is out of CC's coffee we know where to go.  On the bright side, we did eventually find our coffee :] 

This is a picture of us on our last day of Med-Surg clinicals.  As you can tell, we were both still asleep.  Though we are very thankful to be done with careplans, paperwork, and early morning clinicals, we sure do miss all of our precious patients! :] 

Remember how we started off our Spring Break with some swing dancing?! That was such a fun night!  It was most definitely a much needed break away from all of our studying! 

 So this billboard has been the confusion of all semester!  We can't figure out:  A. What a tropical island has to do with breast cancer  B. What do monkeys have to do with breast cancer  C. Most importantly- what is the girl holding on the lower left?? -After much research, we believe that it is a poorly drawn banana... the world may never know.  

 After our final final, we went and returned our textbooks -always such a relief at the end of the semester! After reading the entire book, we grew a little attached to our psych book so of course returning it made us sad.  On the contrary, we were very excited about turning in our Gero book of which we never opened :] 

 This is what we are looking forward to for next semester: Peds and OB!! 

It's a bittersweet moment as this is our last blog of the semester, but we are looking forward to sharing more amazing memories with y'all! 

With much love, your study-free bloggers, 

Aimee and Kelly 

Have a great summer faithful followers!! :]