My nursing license card came in today via mail. Staring at the shiney plastic card with my picture, id number, and name on it is surreal. It was only two years ago when I decided to take this path and now I got it. I'm trying to build this career step by step. My first training starts on Friday and then every week I two more trainings: ECG reading and Advanced Cardiac Life Support. I also want to take the Pediatric Advanced Life Support training (I'm leaning more towards peds anyway) and then Cardio-Pulmonary Life Support after that. All these trainings are giving me the jitters because they're not that easy. I'll have to take exams to pass these courses before getting certificates and ids to be qualified to pass. The good thing is that it's all exciting and I'll be learning new things and these will hopefully lessen my nurse nouveau jitters.
I can't wait to go job hunting, work in a hospital, and take care of patients but it's not that easy at all. I want to be really qualified and competent before going to "war"-- I want to bank on my skills first. What I hate about this all is the idle time that comes along with waiting for scheduled trainings. For instance, I have to wait for weeks because on December 22nd I have IV Therapy training-- which is a course to learn how to insert intravenous catethers. Aside from that I will have to go on duty to complete cases of blood transfusions, IV meds, and IV catetherizations. The exciting part is that these are all nerve rattling but it's the adrenaline rush that's exciting. I kind of miss wearing my white uniform and my comfortable nursing shoes I wear on duty. They're so comfortable I wish I could wear them everyday.
2011 is going to be really exciting, I can feel it!
