Conclusiones
Posted August 10, 2006 3:41 PM
Hola…
Since many of you have long anticipated this most current blog of mine, I am very happy to report that life is good here in Baltimore and that although many of us are a bit sad that the summer months have flown by, it has been a good one!!!
Firstly, an official welcome to the new kids of SON who have already finished their summer courses and are now on vacation - and anticipatory welcome to our new mates starting up in just a few weeks.
This summer has proven to be a brilliant learning experience for me; I have just finished a summer internship at Johns Hopkins Bayview hospital and will remain there throughout the course of the year as a “Nurse Associate”, a fancy Tech but brilliant nonetheless. There were a hand-full of us in the same program as well as many other of our buds working in various hospital and healthcare settings throughout Baltimore and the US - not sure if anyone went abroad for the summer? I think the general consensus was that our summer jobs in these particular settings made what we had learned the previous year at SON finally make sense, at least to some degree.
Aside from work there has been some traveling, some tubing down rivers, the WORLD CUP!!!!!!!!!!!!!, an occasional mojito/margarita - sometimes one of each…
Good times. So to all of 2007 coming back to SON for round 2, and to our new friends starting year one and those returning from vacation, safe travels and we’ll see you in Sept.
~ Ciao
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Spring Fever
Posted March 5, 2006 4:31 PM
Friends,
Greetings once again from lovely Baltimore. It has been a good long while since my last little blurb. Actually, I think the last time I blogged was at the beginning of the semester. I have been slacking as a blogger, which was brought to my attention a couple of days ago by the lovely miss Minette, a fellow blogger who apparently has “one-upped” me with her latest blog posting. With that, here I am, blogging once again to tell you all tales of life at the SON.
It has been pretty crazy around these parts as most of us have been condemned to books and massive amounts of studying and writing papers and care plans - fun stuff! But, we are all making it through and only have one more week until freedom. A badly needed and much anticipated spring break awaits us all. This semester got up and busy from day one and has been a fairly challenging one. All in all, not too bad heading into the final stretch of the first half of the semester. I am in the process of finishing my psychiatric mental health rotation, which has been beyond interesting to say the least. After break, labor and delivery…this should prove to be a very unique experience and I am pretty excited about this next rotation because I do not really know what I am getting into. That and one of my best buddies from home just had a baby girl last week - now I get to have a glimpse of what his wife and he probably went through.
So what’s going on with all of you? How are you doing? Kind of feel funny writing things down and telling you about life here in Baltimore and SON and not having any reaction from the “audience”. Maybe that’s a good thing, not really sure. I wanted to send a hello to all of the accepted students that I recently had the pleasure of meeting. Seemed to be a very cool bunch of people, hope you enjoyed the trip. Feel free to send a hello and any questions you might have - promise I’ll be better at responding to your emails than I have been catching up on my blogs.
With that, I leave you. Must share some of this time with my pharmacology book. Be well, take care and I’ll be sending out another email sometime soon…most likely from beautiful sunny and warm Massachusetts! Ciao
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Winter Vacation
Posted January 17, 2006 5:47 PM
Friends, I am still on vacation and this is a very strange feeling, having been on vacation now for about 5 weeks. No complaints, it has been wonderful. Just returned this morning from a trip out to Santa Barbara, CA visiting my sister. If you have never been able to take the time to check out this part of Cali, well the entire state…better yet the entire west coast, it is certainly recommended. The roads are amazing, tucked into the cliffs overlooking a Pacific Ocean so immense - it was fabulous and all I could do was watch with envy as countless motorcyclists engulfed the 101 on every kind of bike imaginable. Great trip; I think I have a better understanding why my friends in the program from Cali are very excited to get back to Cali and indulge in the nursing world, California style.
So this is my second blog - no sure how I am doing with this blogging thing. Attempting to still figure out what it means to be a true blogger, but hey, if you all are enjoying this I can keep it coming! The countdown has commenced, 5 days + a little bit and ticking until our second semester begins. I mentioned that it has been strange to have had this enormous block of time off, and it has quickly passed as we all knew it would, but know I am staring at 5 days of freedom before it all happens, again! And not that it is a bad thing…I think many folks are excited to see how a full out clinical rotation, 16hrs a week, will be and how the last semester of their SON career will finish up. But the very badly needed break that has so quickly left us will certainly be missed.
Well then, I hope this one finds you all doing well. To the friends of SON still on break, enjoy! See you all very soon. Ciao!
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4 months in a flash
Posted December 31, 2005 10:05 AM
I think I had forgotten how quickly the time passes when assuming full time student status once again…4 months in a flash! Hard to believe that my first semester has already come and gone. My section finished up its last final December 16th and it was certainly time. All in all, a great semester and I think it is safe to say that we were all certainly ready and needing this break.
Back home here in Massachusetts with family and friends, thus far, a very nice and relaxing break. Had a chance to get down to NYC before the Christmas holiday and walk around the city. I also have a quick California/Baja Cali west coast trip planned with my sis before we get going Jan 23rd on semester number two.
To all who get a chance to read this, Happy Holidays and a very safe and healthy New Year! To my fellow mates @ SON, enjoy the remainder of your break. Look forward to seeing you all in 2006! Ciao.
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Coming Soon...
Posted December 21, 2005 12:18 PM
To tide you over until I make my first post, here’s some info about a program that I’m involved in at the school. Programa Salud works with Baltimore’s Hispanic population. Check out this article in our school magazine, Johns Hopkins Nursing, to learn more about the program: The Language of Healing