Yay!! 8 weeks are over!!

Well I made it.... The 8 weeks of Foundations is over and there are some bittersweet emotions about it. I am happy because I am home and can take a little break but at the same time I am going to miss clinicals.

Looking back on the 8 weeks I have grown so much... not literally but in the way of study skills, confidence and maturity. At the beginning of it all I was not happy about having to go back and take this class over but now, I am so glad. I not only came out of the class with an A, but I experienced so many amazing things that will help me in the future. I was able to build and repair some relationships. I met some awesome nurses who I learned so much from.

I can't wait til next year (well more like 2 weeks haha) to see what I am going to experience, the things I am going to learn and the people I will meet. Only God knows what is going to happen and I am so excited to see what He shares with me during that time. I will keep updating this when I have time! Fall 2010 here I come!!

God's Plans

Once again... it has been too long!!

The past week has been crazy and the next 2 weeks of class are going to be pretty much CRAZIER! This opportunity that I was given to come back and take this class has been awesome! I have one more week of clinicals and I will be sad to not have anymore for about 4 weeks.

Yesterday was an incredible day and special day. We got to the hospital and got on to our floor just in time for a patient to go into code. For all you non-medical people out there, a code is usually when someone goes unconscious and CPR and whatever else is needed. My teacher gave me the opportunity to watch it all go on. I watched as probably 20 doctors, nurses, techs, respiratory therapist, and hematologist swarmed the room. I watched as they did CPR and tried to bring the patient back. As I watched, I just prayed. My teacher came back and was talking to me a little. She told me that she felt that God was telling her that I needed to see that. She told me that she felt that God was telling her that I would work in ICU or ER. She later told me that she was feeling ER. This was not the first time that I had been told that I would work in ER. Family and close medical profession friends have told me that too. In a way it is a little nerve wrecking only because the thought of me being in ER and having people's lives on the line and it is up to me to save them is pretty big.

God knows what he is doing. It has taken coming back to take a class over again to realize that, to quote the song, God has the world in his hands. He has our lives in his hands. He has our future in his hands. He knows what he is doing, we just need to trust in him. I wonder sometimes what would have happened if I was not given the opportunity to come back or to retake this class. I would not have been able to help the people I did, or meet the people I did. I would not have been able to shadow some of the best nurses I have met here. I would not have been able to see and experience so many things. I just thank God that he opened this door up for me. I truly believe the quote by Alexander Graham Bell,

"When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us."

We just need to ask God to open a new door when another one closes because you never know what will happen....

"Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you."

Matthew 7:7