My First Week of NS!

I decided to create this blog to post everything about my nursing school experience. It's going to be one big roller coater emotionally, mentally, and physically, but it will all be worth it in the end....I hope!

I'm really excited, scared, anxious, exhausted already, but I can't wait to continue and be FINISHED and be a RN!! 2 years and counting...

Anyway, last week my work gave me a really nice party! It was so much fun. We had TONS of food and it was nice to see everyone again. It just felt like I went on vacation and I was back at work... But when I saw my empty desk, realized I didn't have to answer the phone, and I could just hang out and eat, it was kind of weird! It still feels kind of weird to not have to work or think about going to work, but I'll get use to it soon enough. A lady at my work made me a really cute "Nurse Kelly" cake and Sherry, Melanie, Nancy, and Kelli gave me a Littmann Stethoscope, which I have been waiting FOREVER to get! It was so exciting and SO sweet of them!! I absolutely love it, and it has my name on it already! :) Everyone at my work also made me a giant poster board and wrote really nice, encouraging things to me. It's great and I have it sitting on my computer desk, so when I am studying or working on the computer, I can see it and read it and it will remind me of everyone! I'll definitely miss everyone at Dickson, but I grew and learned a LOT while I was there, so I'm thankful for that.

Here are the pictures of the cake, stethoscope and poster board! Cute!

I made it through my first week of school! YAY! It was so much information and really, really overwhelming. The reading assignments are an insanely HUGE amount, and I can't imagine it growing, but I'm sure it will. I've probably already studied about 15+ hours this week, and I still have Friday, Saturday and Sunday to do studying. YIKES. This semester I am taking Nursing Care 1 and Professional Behaviors. They tie in together a lot and so far it's been interesting. I've met a lot of people and already knew a few also, but im sure by the end of the semester everyone will be really close. I'll be with these people for 2 years, so I better get close to all of them!

Other than that, there really isn't too much to blog about just yet, but just wait...it will get more exciting and crazy. I'll try to blog as much as I can, but that really depends on how busy I get.