Here's to the beginning!

It goes to say that these stories are not entirely my own, nor did they all manifest within the past year. This collection of stories became my beacon into better days as I toyed with the idea of altering my already strictly chosen path of a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Psychology to the ever envied (and not so envied) field of Nursing. As I turned from neuron mapping and the ecological systems theory by Bronfrenbrenner, I felt the urge to tune into the conversations of my college roommate and her friends as they relived hospital and clinic stories from the gruesome battlefield that is nursing school clinicals. But please, let me create the backstory.

When you hear those stories about nurses “eating their young” you have most certainly stumbled into the dark and the ever so hilarious aspects of newbie nursing. These events oftentimes do not get the credit they truly deserve. Now, I’m not saying that these instances are always the theme of each colorful shift one may become elbow deep and partially drowning in. But! I would appreciate the opportunity to allow you the chance to delve into the battlefront with all the mud-slinging, bullets and shrapnel. But do mind the heavy and serious aftermath of PTSD, anxiety and the very real burnout that often follows the majority of one’s shifts (or that culminates over time).

Nursing is and can be the wiping of a brow, the singing of a song or even the mimicking the pristine pressed white atmosphere of the newest Johnson and Johnson commercial. On the flip-side, please do not forget that though we share our sanity, bathroom breaks, emotions and energy on a daily basis, we more often than not find ourselves in the most hilarious, disgusting, dirty and smelly situations that you could never even fathom in your wildest and most twisted dreams.

Therefore, if you have not been an acting constituent of the World of Nursing, please friends, let me take you on a journey of misadventures. This is a journey in which the stories just keep on coming and to which there shall never be a lack. Mind you to keep your nausea remedies at hand, a possible tissue or two and the willingness to see the light in each of these stories, people and situations. As one of my favorite nursing school professors always said, “We have got to keep laughing in order to keep from crying.”

Here my friends, is where we shall start.

Cheers to all the misadventures that happen 24 hours a day and 365 days of the year: this includes all holidays, birthdays, anniversaries, major life events or any other day-to-day proceedings that occur in normal lives. Please, always pay gratitude to those who frequent cleaning spew from their shoes and poop from their hands while most are snug in their beds or enjoying a day off in the sun.

Shall we get started?