baseball for the babies

Well hey there lovely blog readers!  This week has been absolutely crazy!  We will have had 4 tests, 2 papers, capstone implementations, sim lab-punch me in the head-, and an NCF event! For your sake, will skip all the boring stuff and get straight to the event.  

Our Dollars for Diapers Drive got to be promoted at an SLU baseball game against Tulane on Tuesday.  It was a perfect day for a baseball game!  It was pretty amazing the way it all worked out as it came together in the wee hours before the event.  God is truly amazing and provided above and beyond what we could have ever expected (like always).  We are so excited about this fundraiser and get to be in the student union on Wednesday collecting more "Dollars for Diapers".  -so come visit us! 

 

We are just 6 short weeks shy of graduation.  HOLY. GUACAMOLE. BATMAN.  Where has the time gone?  It's definitely a bittersweet time for us.  We are so ready to be done with this insanely busy semester but at the same time aren't quite ready to say goodbye to our college life as we know it.  

ps- we found a tree with a belly button... our lives are never dull...

love your baseballin' bloggers 

       

today

Today I comforted my patient and held her hand.  Today I was able to minister to my patient.  I was able to use these gifts God has given me to glorify Him.  Today He taught me how to care for patients as if I were caring for Him.  And why wouldn't I give my Savior the very best care?  Today I wondered "what if I had cared for every patient as if they were Jesus?"  The patients I have the privilege of caring for are His children.  They are made in His image.  He has entrusted their care into my hands, not through my ability, but Him working through me.  Today, I have realized the significance in my call to nursing.  Today I have been encouraged and challenged to care for every patient as if they were Jesus.  

-Aimee-   

swiss cheeseheads

We are officially under the 2 month mark and that means only one thing...life is about to get crazy! :] 

Somehow we have managed to do absolutely nothing school related which is okay with us.  These past two weeks have been such a whirlwind to us and reality is starting to set in.  We have been super busy applying for our state nursing license, ordering graduation announcements, ordering our cap and gowns -which we will be picking up tomorrow, and buying our white scrubs for pinning ceremony!   

Oh, and best of all...we just paid $200 to finally meet the NCLEX Lady (aka register for NCLEX)

-we are hoping for an autograph- 

Today we had our second NCF meeting of the semester; it was such a wonderful meeting/devotion time.  We love sharing with our fellow nursing students.  It was such a beautiful day so we decided to have our meeting outside, by a fountain.  We had a wonderful meeting and are excited about upcoming events!  We are starting to kick off our "dollars for diapers" drive to raise money for GLA, the Haitian baby ministry.  Plans include a day in the union and a table at a baseball game! 

Starting this week, we will be caring for 4 patients -gasp- We can remember when we were scared of taking care of 2 patients.  Hahaha.  We have come so far this semester and have learned so much! 

Oh- last week we had a brain cell-killer of an acuity test so we decided to "blow" off some steam at the shooting range!  We have decided that this is by far the best way to relieve post-test stress!

Well faithful blog readers, we finally have a night to get in bed at a decent hour so we are taking full advantage of it!  Goodnight! 

-love your swiss cheesehead bloggers :] 

(because that's what 5th semester will to do ya!) 

  

I'd rather be...

So while we were about to lose our minds in a very non-interesting lecture, we decided to make a list of things we would rather be doing.  Enjoy:

I'd rather be:

at the beach laying in the sun

riding the biggest roller coaster

snuggled by the fire...drinking yummy coffee/tea :] 

SKYDIVING
taking a hot bubble bath

eating some sushi

in Haiti 

visiting Florida Hospital for Children & then Disney World

at CC's 

shooting a gun

playing Yahtzee

gator huntin'

writing my paper

finding a journal article...and writing a summary

driving home

eating rocks

singing "Whole Enchilada" ...while wearing sombreros and Mexican staches 

giving a bed bath

sitting through skills lab 

looking a a pressure ulcer...stage 4 (BARF)

talking to Brenda..if she answers

cutting the grass...with scissors

standing in a blizzard in shorts...next to a polar bear...that's hungry

walking in the Sahara Desert barefoot with no hat or sunscreen

drinking burnt coffee with no creamer (GROSS)

swimming with sharks

[..lastly, our favorite] 

bear-hugging a cactus...naked 

...well we better pay attention in this brain dissolving cardiac lecture!

Have a good day lovely blog readers!

 

fireside Friday

So we have realized one very important thing: tomorrow marks 3 months until graduation...yes, from college!  This is insane and unfathomable to us right now considering how much we have to do before then.  

Last night we had a fun little sleepover/paperwork party. -note sleepover=fun, paperwork party does not-.  We had every intention to go to a fun Mardi Gras parade, but the wet cold rain had other intentions.  Knowing we could not jeopardize our health for the sake of a few beads and a moonpie, we stuck to the fireplace instead.  :]  

...and what a cozy night of a paperwork party it was!  

...until we completely crashed...

...paperwork induced coma... 

The only antidote for this coma of ours is the -drumroll please- 

CARDIAC DANCE!!! -you better be getting excited about this! 

If all goes as planned, we are hoping to do our own little rendition of this as a fun way of studying.  Don't worry your little hearts our lovely blog readers, we will be sure to video this event for you! 

As for now, we are really wanting to be lying on a beach...like this one...

somewhere very warm as we are experiencing major ineffective thermoregulation r/t extreme wind and excessive coldness. 

Well we better be going to find some heat before we turn into popsicles!

Love your frozen and frigid bloggers!

PS: check out NCF's National Website for a post about our local chapter's involvement and Haiti!  http://ncf-jcn.org/

Wenckebach!!

Someone get us a defibrillator because at the rate all these cardiac notes are going to give us a heart attack.  Since it's been such a crazy day, we decided to leave you with a video to make you smile.

 ...we kinda wish we could do this right now.  6 hours of sitting in class is a killer....

 ...dope nursing students we are...

 

Love your brain dead, bradycardic bloggers :]

What ARDS you doing? :]

...We'll tell you what we 'ARDS' doing...

We are sitting in our Acuity lecture right now, having our brains twisted into a pretzel.  Sheeshh...this stuff is hard.  

ps- if you were wondering ARDS = Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

If you want to know any more than this, we probably aren't your best resource quite yet.  We recommend WebMD! hahaha! 

Well, back to note taking!  

Hope you're having a great day faithful readers!