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Tomorrow is a day I've been working towards for the past 2 years since becoming a nurse. Nervous as hell but holy crap I made it.

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I could get used to coming home to this 😍

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I'm not a fan of the flu 😭😭😭

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Next year is going to be a big year

Come January I'll be moving into my first apartment, an adorable studio on the upper east side close to work. It has a wall of exposed brick and a fireplace! I can't wait to get in there and decorate! This will open up my social life tremendously as I'll be close by a bunch of my friends from work. Work wise I'll be trained more to take critical patients in the ED rather then taking medicine admit holds. I can feel my adrenaline pumping already! I just feel like I'm turning my life around into everything I've wanted. Usually I don't care for New Years resolutions and such but this year is different. I'm very excited to see what this new year has in store!

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When you worked a nice 12 HR shift and all you want to do is get some rest. You worked hard and even thought you're off tomorrow you want to get to sleep early. You deserve it after all you're hard work! But no you're stupid god damn new tenant upstairs decides to have sex and causes crazy floor squeaking preventing you from getting that well deserved early to bed rest that you wanted. Fuck you dude. I will judge you and hate you for ruining this moment for me. Someday you will pay. I am very serious about my sleep and I'm half ready to go sleep in my living room. Anything to get away from the squeaking. Oh and one last thing...is everyone in the fucking world having sex but me?! Only adds to the annoyance of my life.

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Today I'm officially a preceptor. Wednesday will mark the completion of my first year as a nurse. Holy hell its crazy how much has changed in just one year. Still have a long way to go but it's important to acknowledged how far you've come. Watching someone experience their very first shift as a nurse is the best way to see this.

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The ED WTF Moment of the Day

We had a young kid - homeless comes off the streets for something like abdominal pain but he's comes with a dog and 30 bags of heroin. Of course he's homeless so he says he cant bring his dog anywhere nor is there anyone who can take him. So we keep the dog. Yep for 2 days we housed this dog and our charge nurse fucking walked the dog. We do just about anything. And to think some floors fight over who gets the next admission. We just do this shit like its no big deal and don't throw a fit about it. But seriously it was pretty funny. Dog walking can be added to a RNs scope of practice I guess!

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As much as I bitch and complain about being a new nurse I'm actually getting pretty darn good. Not trying to brag (believe me it took so long before I started to give myself the credit I deserved instead of focusing on my mistakes) but honestly even the other nurses are telling me I've progressed so much over the last few months. Even today I worked in the trauma bay and I just felt so on top of my patients and intervened when issues arises and resolved them. Nobody's perfect but I feel pretty good right now. Might also have something to do with the fact that I have off tomorrow haha.