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Northwestern Pacific to the Pacific Northwest

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Made it to Japan

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have you started your nursing job? curious how you like it so far

i've been in ICU for 4 months and I unno how i feel about it so far

I haven’t started officially as an RN yet, but I’ll be working in the same OR where I did my senior practicum for the last six months of nursing school. I mostly did cardiac and general surgery, with a good amount of liver transplant cases.

I honestly love it. The OR has always been my goal after nursing school, and I’ve been lucky to get to know the nurse managers, nurses, scrub techs, surgeons, anesthesiologists, and everyone else on the team. It’s a really supportive environment. At my hospital, RNs can both circulate and scrub, which was a huge selling point for me.

Are you a new grad or just moved fields? Four months into the ICU is still really early, especially as a new grad. It’s such a steep learning curve that I think it’s normal to still be figuring out how you feel about it. Do you think it’s the ICU itself, the unit culture, or are you just not sure yet?

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You’re stunning!

Thank you so much! ☺️

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Her name’s Meow

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Not a beach bum today. More like a sea sprite.

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Is anyone else still really affected by Steve Irwin’s passing? I grew up watching him, and I vividly remember the moment I found out he died. I’ll never forget it.

I think about him every so often and try to imagine what the world would be like if he were still in it. It truly makes me emotional that he’s gone.

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It’s all fun and games until you snorkel for 3 hours straight on the reef and get a bad sunburn 🍑

[heartandsoul-fragments]

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Food, beaches, chilling

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[mournfulroses]

Emily Brontë, from The Collected Works & Poetry of Emily Brontë; “Wuthering Heights,”

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ocracoke, 19 may

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Finally made it back to the beach today. One of the things I missed the most about being home is being in the ocean when it rained. You couldn’t tell from these sunny photos, but at one point, it poured for a good half hour.

There’s something so special about being in the warmth of the ocean as the cool rain falls on the water’s surface. It feels familiar. It feels safe. It feels like there’s no one else in the world but me in that moment.

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Little island things

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First two days back home have been nice. Though, it’s crazy to see all the changes, not just from being gone for 12 years, but also from the two recent super typhoons that hit the island pretty badly within the last several months.

Spent both days on the beach. Today, I revisited old places that I haven’t seen in over a decade and checked in on my grandparents who moved back here from Oregon a couple years ago.

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Travelled for almost 40 hours straight. It was a nightmare and I’m thoroughly exhausted, but I’m finally home 🤍

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Airport hopping. Officially been up for 20 hours straight and counting 🙃