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| cali update to come.
but i have one more day left of work out of this series of days. i am expecting my patient to die today. i have gotten to know the family very well over the last few weeks. i just pray for the best. i will miss him dearly.
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| so i looked up the info on med school
im gonna need 2 more years of pre-reqs, then 4 years of med school, then residency (where i'll only be making 35K/year), then fellowship (which i'll be making as much as a starting salary of a R.N.). After that I become an attending and make butt loads of money.
but money and respect isn't everything. yah..id be nice to be rollin in dough. but for what? no time to raise a family, no life, only school. even after school, id be on call all the time. what a pain...
plus I got into this the medical field to help people. sure, doctors help people. but you see your patients for 3-4 minutes, then go on with the rest of your rounds. as a nurse, I get to really spend time with my patients. I get to really talk to them and find out certain things that they wont tell anyone else.
For example, I was taking care of a patient on Wed-Fri of last week. On thursday, the nursing assistant told me that the wife was crying hysterically in the room. I walk into the room to see what was happening. She told me that she was just having a breakdown and she just had to let it out. If this happened when I was a doctor, I would be so busy that I wouldn't have time to really talk to her because I would have to manage so many other patients. Although this happened on my busiest day, I knew I only had 2 other patients, and I knew whatever they needed could wait a few minutes. I sat down next to her and held her hand. She was telling me how she had never seen her husband this sick and was wishing that she could do more to help him. I listened intently. She continued to cry. When she was done, I told her how I understood where she was coming from because I was once a caregiver for my dad when he had cancer. After a 30 minute conversation, I gave her a hug and left the room. She later told my preceptor that I was an excellent nurse because I not only had the science aspect of nursing down, but that I was also very caring towards my patients and families.
I guess I've realized why I really became a nurse.
And yes, i still hunger for more knowledge (for those of you in school, you wont get this feeling till you get out...trust me). So I might go back and get my masters and become and advanced nurse practitioner. 2 years of school and i'll be starting at 70K/year. plus MD Anderson will pay for my schooling. So I get free school =).
I pwn cancer. yessir
p.s. and for those of you that are considering med school or are in med school, I am in no way trying to get you to stop what you are doing. pursue your dreams. but please dont forget to take the time out to really care for your patients.
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| Ok...so the past 3 years, i have completely ragged on doctors, saying that i will never become one. why? i want to care for my patients. i dont wanna just diagnose and prescribe meds all day. that would be boring.
until today.
<the following is in no way meant to brag about myself>
in all honesty, I am doing very well in orientation. I am functioning almost completely independently. I am picking up on everything really fast. (probably cuz i taught myself how to cram in college). all my patients love me and tell me that I take excellent, quality care of them, which is awesome cuz im not even off orientation. Ive already gotten 2 compliment cards from patients on orientation. and compliment cards are rare because the patients have to request for them...we dont tell them about it. my preceptor has had 2 total her whole career (and one she got cuz I was taking good care of my patient =]). But i think my patients love me because I take the time out to care for them. When Im not busy, i take the time out and make sure my patients understand their diagnosis and disease and meds. or I talk to them about life or random things. I try my best to relate to my patients.
and this is something many doctors dont do now. i wanna be that doctor that truly cares about his patients.
but why not stay a nurse? cuz in all honesty. im gonna get bored. in 1-2 years, im gonna max out my blood cancer skillz. if i move to another area of cancer, im gonna max out my abilities. im going to have learned all i can possibly learn, and work will no longer be challenging to me.
BUT..
what if i go to med school? i'll really be challenging myself. and i could change the way doctors practice. I could really care for my patients and really make them understand whats going on with their care. Mixing interpersonal skills with ultimate knowledge. thats what i want.
so med school? maybe? i'll think it over the next 2 years.
<edit> the down side of med school: i still need 1.5 years of pre-reqs + 4 years med school + residency + fellowship. its gonna be many years before i become an attending. so maybe not. we'll see
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| Intel core 2 quad =)
so most computers have one processor (essentially one brain). Then they came out with Core 2 Duo and Dual Core. this means your computers have 2 processors (2 brains).
my new one has 4 =).
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