#np student

[chuchaaay]

Your favorite grad student aka your favorite future Nurse Practitioner 🫦

[we-are-all-eventual-ghosts]

nothing like not doing any school work all weekend :(

I didn’t do it intentionally. I was ambitious when I woke up. And then I stayed in bed for 2 hours and haven’t felt right all day. I stared at the pile of articles I need to read and just said “I can’t”

Brains are weird and hard to work with sometimes.

IlMeh. Tomorrow will be a new day and I can tackle this stack. I’m so close to being able to email my project chair and go “PAPER DONE! Survey IN PROGRESS. Clinical site emails sent out!” Honestly the hardest part is determining how many survey questions LMAO. I am not known for being short and sweet….

Maybe by Friday 😩 Add to it the studying and then we have lab all week next week. GAHHHH. Five days of intense simulations is rough and add to it studying for the final.

If nothing else, I got my final clinical schedule down and I should be done by comic con! It’s gonna be rough, but it will make con so much sweeter without a ton of school duties hanging over my head. Six weeks until I meet Sam and Liam 😭😭😭😭

[disco---biscuits]

I'm so annoyed. Being a nursing student and especially a FNP grad student during this covid stuff is a straight up nightmare. My classmates and I cannot not find preceptor sites for the life of us and the school is doing NOTHING to help us. I'm paying so much money for this, they need to get their shit together. If anyone know any MDs, DOs, or NPs currently taking students in NJ please let me know.

[we-need-medicine]

Holiday Giveaway

Hi everyone,

Just in time for the holiday season, I’m going to give away 3 copies of the Maxwell Quick Medical Reference!

This pocket guide includes a thorough explanation of everything listed in that picture. I found it super helpful when I was on clinical rotations and is widely regarded as a must-have for PA/NP students and medical students. It also has a pocket Snellen chart and ruler on the back cover, which I still use often while practicing!

Just reblog this post and winners will be randomly selected December 15, 2017. Good luck!!!

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I finished my last presentation for management.

I'm crying, I'm so thankful.

Now to actually study for the final....

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I figured out why I continually have heartburn.

this term is so stressful 😭 I have a presentation due in 24 hours, and then another one due Sunday evening. I did my midterm today (it’s week 3… but that’s what happens when class is 5 weeks long!), which I feel okay about, but ugh it was so stressful. I have to read for Wednesday. I’m trying to balance my school life with work (work is INSANE. The emails never end, then add actually thoughtfully grading two courses is a LOT), and doing fun things. Like yesterday I went out and played Pokemon and went shopping for some stuff and Costco. I have the Fjorester wedding on Wednesday immediately after class and ep 3 of CR4 on Thursday.

AND I’m in this training future faculty program and anxious about what I’ll do for the teaching observations. We do a micro teaching and then two teaching obs - and like, I guess I could do one of my presentations but it also doesn’t feel like teaching? I’ll ask. But there is work for that on top of stuff and I feel very overwhelmed.

So yeah, no wonder I have heartburn 😭😭😭

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Another COVID shot, another reaction 😭

I have lost count how many times I have had an immune reaction to the COVID shot. Pain - expected. But painful and palpable lymph nodes? Especially to the side I get the shot? (Left typically)? Left neck discomfort? Fever, chills, nausea? Exhaustion?

I got it Thursday, and the fever/chills was Friday, and today the pain is intense. If it doesn’t get better by Monday, I will look for an urgent care. I have had to get steroids before to calm the reaction down. My neck and shoulders really hurt - both from the reaction and from walking a ton today with my mini backpack.

Sigh.

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Officially have submitted my DNP Project to the archives of my school. Because I want to potentially publish (crazy to say that!), I restricted access to my paper, but bro - I feel very fancy with a DOI link!

Just a few more things to check off the to-do list and I'm done with graduate school for this round! (I'm not saying forever, because I have kind of contemplated a PhD, however that is NOT happening any time soon and the state of loans and shit is appalling. I also would like to learn how to be an NP in practice, soooooo, no more school for me for at least five years!)

I made it home safe from my long ass trip to visit family and then my in-person interview. While I could see myself living in Spokane, the job doesn't feel like a good fit for me. Everyone was very nice, but I think I was having a hard time trying to see their vision for this position because it isn't conceived yet. They are currently holding down the fort with some version of this position, but I think I was getting confused and I do wonder if they will even offer me the position anyway. Haven't heard anything, but I only interviewed on Friday, and it can take at least a few days for them to even create an offer if they want me.

I did an interview for a cancer center near my extended family, and it could lead to an in-person opportunity. I think I like the idea of that position more than Spokane, and if it were me, it would be a battle for Bellingham versus Tri-Cities. However, Tri-Cities is - desert and boring AF. Kind of like where I went to nursing school - IDK, it just doesn't have enough city for me, lmao. (Which is why Spokane seemed large enough, and enough to do, but the job...)

But all of these are in the PNW, and that is what matters, haha.

I'm exhausted. I have a very early morning for therapy and my MD appt, and then I gotta keep working on that to-do list. I'll be in Atlanta in a week and the one week countdown to the Critical Role Live Atlanta show is ON!