A New Mentality: My Psychiatric Clinical Experience

Mental health. Depression. Mania. Hallucinations. What mental images do these words evoke for you? Going into this semester, I remember promising myself that I would face my psychiatric clinicals with an open mind. Though I have never had any interest in pursuing mental health as my full-time career, I realize how essential it is to…

Clinical Tips: Making the Most Out of Your Experience

Clinicals: they provide some of the most challenging and rewarding learning opportunities in nursing school! I have been so thankful for my time in the hospital this semester, and I wanted to share with you some of my tips for making the most out of your clinical experience. 1) Lay out everything the night ahead!…

Starting Third Semester

I feel like it was just yesterday that I was writing a post about starting second semester. Where does the time go? This semester is obviously a lot different than normal with online classes and hybrid clinicals, but I have actually really enjoyed it so far! This fall I am taking two classes: NUR308 The…

Balancing Work and Nursing School

Yes, I am still here! I have not been consistent with posting recently, but I am determined to be better about posting now that I have started to get a feel for my summer routine. This week I wanted to write about the two things that are taking up the most time in my life…

How To Enjoy Nursing School: My Top 10 Tips and Tricks!

I’ve seen lots of posts about how to “survive” or “get through” nursing school. These always make me sad, because I believe nursing school should be an experience you enjoy! Of course, it is not always fun to cram for exams or feel like you will never make it through your mountains of homework. I…