You know when you just have so much you want to write, so where the heck do you begin?
Well..
I am happy to report that I wrote my final nursing exam this past week. It is the national exam - where all of the country writes the same exact exam at the same exact time. An exam to determine if, after all the schooling, you are actually competent enough to be a "grown-up"nurse.
I was as prepared as I thought I could get- having got 95-100% on the national "practice" exam the day before. But when you tear open the booklet of questions with your scantron sheet beside you, and realize that you don't have a clue as to the answer of question one...
yah. It all started like that.
Thankfully it was over, a grueling three and a half hours later. 3&1/2 hours of sitting in one chair, a freezing cold hotel convention room, with 130+ other pencils tapping across scantron pages. Escorted to the bathroom by test auditors. Watched like a hawk. It wasn't intimidating at all. :S
And I was one of the first ones to finish-- some never did, as you only got 4 hours to complete it.
But it is done.
Everything but the waiting for the results in the mail that hold the answer to your nursing destiny!! :)
I freaking LOVE my job. Love it. And I am soooo glad to have not just one, but three different jobs in the nursing field! Some of my fellow grads don't have even one job, and here I have three. It is awesome to pick my own schedule and do everything I love doing. And to get paid to do it.
I seriously live the good life.
