Personal Narrative: My Four Year Of Nursing School

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When reflecting back on the past 4 years of nursing school, it feels like yesterday when, I was sitting in my autonomy and physiology class struggling on trying to take in as much information as possible, so that I could get and A+ and apply to the nursing program. When I got the letter that I got accepted into nursing school, I thought it was just about the best day of my life. Boy was I naïve because in reality, I had no idea what I had just signed up for.
Though initially the first few weeks seemed like a breeze, learning in skills lab how to wash my hands, make a bed, give injections, take vitals and listening to heart and lungs sounds. I am thinking to myself, wow nursing school is so easy. However that quickly changed when the workload …show more content…
I remember like it was yesterday freshmen year in Shippee-rice’s class we had a guest speaker come in and talk to all of us about “Nursing Self-Care”. She talked about how important it is for nursing to be health, get exercise and eat well. I think she said “Be an example for your patients”. Well 4 years later I’ve gained weight, my blood pressure is hypertensive, I have nightmares constantly about failing tests, and have developed considerable bags under my eyes from a lack of sleep. It seem like the only exercise I got was caring around 700 pounds of nursing school books all day going back and forth between classes and the library. I swear I spend more time in the library than I had at my own apartment. I’m not joking when I say this but I would bet that there is an imprint of my butt in one of the chair at the Hubbard reading quiet room in the library. I can also say that I have gotten pretty good at figuring out diagnosis. Well at least self-diagnosis such as risk of social isolation related to studying too much or sleep pattern disturbance related to walking up at 4 a.m. for clinical after getting 3 hours of sleep from studying med-surge and my favorite self-care deficit related to being a nursing
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