My first blog post!

This blog is a chronicle of my first (and I'm sure hardest) year of being an R.N.! I've been in college for FIVE YEARS and I'm finally out and ready to hit the ground hopefully feet first! I'll be blogging about everything from getting my first job, taking the NCLEX-RN, meshing with my new coworkers I spend 13 hours straight with, patients and their constant calamity (sparing all details of course that are so very private!) , hospital rules and the ties that bind, trying to have a life outside of those sterile walls, and just why sometimes leaving the things that happen at work... at work, can be so hard, and actually impossible.

I've never blogged before but I've always read blogs so I'm really excited! I always read blogs about things I wished I was doing but aren't or can't like mommy blogs, dog blogs, teaching English in South Korea blogs, or missionaries in Haiti blogs. Blogs are like a nice vacation from the life you actually lead to some other life you could have lead if things were different. So I'm pretty excited that potentially one girl (or boy) out there wants to be a nurse but isn't yet or can't and will enjoy this blog! Also, I'm going to print this out at the end and have it bound at Kinko's for a keepsake to remember.

So welcome! And drop by often! Soon I'll be posting about trying to find my first job!

Yours truly,
Winnie

P.S. Just for the record my name isn't really Winnie Tenenbaum. I felt it would be best to be vague about the details of who I am and what hospital I work for due to the sensitive nature of nursing work.