Reflections

I have noticed a lot more lately if everyone around me is always having a bad day or if it is just the world we are now living in? Granted, I work in an oncology clinic, so a lot of my patients are having bad days, and I am not talking about them. The employees, both at the cancer center and at school, constantly complaining and are just generally unhappy…
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A lot of my students tell me they are afraid they won’t know everything when they graduate. They make this statement with a hint of question in their voice asking if they chose the right program, or if they didn’t learn as much as they should have. My answer is always “no matter what program you choose, everyone feels this way. Sometimes I still feel like I know nothing.”

As nurses…
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I have recently started an account on facebook and have gotten in touch with some friends from high school. I noticed the new last names and the different places people live. How many lives could be ours with a single changed moment? Aren’t we all a sum of moments and experiences? If one moment in my life were changed, I might have a different career or a different last name…
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In my previous post, I had copied a paper I wrote in the first month of nursing school. It was great to reread this because I think as nurses, we sometimes forget why we chose this profession. We get caught up in the job and lose sight of the career. We work long shifts, we take care of difficult patients and we have both an emotionally and physically demanding…
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