Friday of last week, I had my nursing orientation at Baptist College of Health Sciences. I was so nervous and scared about what I've gotten myself into. Orientation lasted from 8am to 6pm. I was so worried about what they would preach to us during that time.
They started us out by having the president of the college give us word of encouragement. She had pictures of nurses long ago to today's nurses. I got teary eyed looking at those pictures. I'm so excited about becoming a nurse!
Then, the next part was to take a tour of the campus. It's a lot bigger than I thought it was. They have a swimming pool and a gym. I never knew they had a swimming pool. It's nice too. It was so hot that day!! The last stop on our part of the tour was nursing building. They have over 10 human body simulators. They are so neat. They can do just about anything. They have a lady that can give birth and an infant. The lady giving us our tour told us that the lady had given birth 10 times on Tuesday and 8 times on Wednesday. She looked bad bless her heart. The infant died 10 times on Tuesday. The infant had a heart defect that the nursing students had to figure out and had to react fast. Needless to say, the infant only died once the next day because students had been talking back and forth about what had happened. I can't wait!! The simulators really help student nurses get over their fears of working on a human patient for the first time!!
We had lunch from Chick-fil-a!! It was great as always! Then we listened to all the other speeches of the day. They are really protective of their students. Security is always willing to help. If I don't feel comfortable walking to my car at night or at any time, they will walk me to my car. They want us to feel as safe as we can. They also said that the crime rate is better because students report everything they see. They also have cameras all over campus. I feel better about knowing that.
They also told us about what happens if someone fails a class. That's were I started to get scared! I don't want to fail out!! I have worked to hard to get here!! I'll need a lot of prayers to help me through this!
All in all, I'm very excited about going to nursing school! I can't wait to get to work on those human body simulators!! I just ask for prayers for both Andrew and I while we both are in school!
You can do it! :) You and Andrew both are in my prayers. I feel like you will do fine. Just keep that determination. Thanks for sharing your journey with us!
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