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This is me in my the infamous blue scrubs of the University of Missouri-Columbia Sinclair School of Nursing.
The picture was taken in May 2002, just after finishing medical-surgical nursing. My hair has been both shorter and longer since then (I'm lazy about getting it cut). I finished my last semester of nursing school in May '03. Graduation Day was 16 May 2003. It was quite a journey that got me through nursing school, a lot of family support, friends, sheer determination, and the song "Du Maste Finnas" from Kristina fran Duvemala (a musical by Benny & Bjorn of ABBA fame). I was the oldest in my class at 37. A few classmates were in their 30's, but most were in their early 20's... It's rather scary to think that my nephew, who I carried around & sang to when I was but 16, was the same age as most of my classmates. When I was a teenager, becoming a nurse was the last thing I wanted to do. I started college to become a German interpreter, and then switched to German education. The I met Mark and quit school altogether for quite awhile with plans to go back eventually. |
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Eventually became about 6 years. I started school again when we returned to the U.S. I had decided by this time that I wanted to become
a Certified Nurse Midwife and that meant going to nursing school. So in the spring of 1993, I began the path to completing my prerequisite
courses to gain admission to the Clinical Nursing Program. I did fairly well and was accepted to enter in the fall of 1995, but I had one small
problem, that being Alan who was born in August 1995. There was no way I was going to go back to school any time soon, so I just resolved to
wait until he started school in 2001. So in Fall 2001, I finally entered clinicals. I had a wonderful time with nursing school and was both excited and scared about getting out into the real world of nursing. My last semester found me doing Med-Surg II (Critical Care Nursing) and Community Nursing. My clinical time was in the Burn & Surgical ICU at University Hospital and at Hickman High School. It was an insanely busy semester. |
| I accepted my first job at St Mary's in Jefferson City. Eventually I plan to pursue a Master's in something, maybe Women's Heath or Nursing Education. I would like to get my PhD in Birth Psychology (good luck on finding this as a real program). As to what sort of nurse I would like to become, I have "gotten real" with myself and realize that I am not cut out for the odd hours that a midwife's life demands... or the negative political climate the state of Missouri presents. I want to do something related to women's health and perhaps babies, but midwifery is no longer the avenue I will take unless something radically changes. I also have an interest in doing travel nursing part of the year and taking my family along. But first a diploma and boards... |  |
