Article on our Trip

Found today on the UWO website...an article about our trip. Here's the website:
http://www.uwosh.edu/news/?p=2799

I've been working on my presentation Nursing on a Budget and have become increasingly annoyed with PowerPoint. For some reason, some of the pictures that I have will not copy onto the presentation, and others appear as very tiny pictures, and others are larger than the slide allows. A simple presentation has turned into a major project which I am trying to piece together on my few and far between days off.

I am counting down again....this time until my graduation day: December 18! Today marks 142 days left. I'm not really excited about the classes for this semester. Leadership and Management, Mental Health (lecture), Mental Health (clinical), and the last four weeks, my clinical synthesis. I think we all will be slightly "mental" after spending 6 hours every Wednesday in Mental Health Lecture. I am looking forward to my clinical synthesis, which is still TBD.

I started in my new position with my first day in the NICU last Saturday. I can only imagine how much I still have to learn...and I learned a LOT my first weekend. I have an awesome preceptor, and the girls that were in my pod were also really great. I already love it! I left work after my first 12 hour shift, and I couldn't wait to come back in the morning. After Sunday's shift, I was so sad that I wasn't going to be back until the next weekend that I am on orientation. After two more shifts I'm off orientation in a matter of speaking. Orientation is an entire process, and I'll still be with my preceptor until I'm all ready to be totally on my own. I can't *wait* for the end of this year to be here!

I'm settling in nicely here in my new pad. It is a great place to live; very safe, very much a young professional crowd, and so much to do! I've been out running most of the days for the past week. It seems that everyone here keeps active-the trails are crowded with people walking, running, biking, rollerblading and picnic-ing in the shade. Everyone I've met has been really friendly...safe to say that I am starting to feel at home here in my new home!

All for now-I'm off to fix dinner and relax a little before gearing up for the rest of my week!