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The first semester was a complete and total blur. Sorry to say that, all you new students. When I went home for summer break, friends and family would ask if I enjoyed nursing school. To which, I would respond "I don't know. It's all going...
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As you have already heard about what I did over the summer, I thought it might be beneficial to hear about what some of my classmates did. Jenn participated in the MHIRT program and here is what she wrote about her summer abroad. Another summer has come...
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It's 2am and I'm driving home from a failed attempt at labor. I am a birth companion. JHUSON has a groundbreaking program called Birth companions which provides labor support to high risk low income women. Women in and around the Baltimore area...
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Already? Can it be that fall is already riding in on summer’s heels? Walking up the stairs in the School of Nursing building this afternoon, the sight of fallen, brown leaves in the courtyard grass down below caught my attention. Perhaps I’ve...
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Since this is my first post I thought I should tell a little bit about me. I am a military brat (Marine Corps) who grew up all around the US until I was in 6 th grade when I moved to a small town, Lynden, WA. I went to middle school and high school there,...
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Only one week left until Fall Orientation, so you know we're really busy here at the School of Nursing! We are diligently putting your packets together, planning the sessions, oh, and ordering the food! August is generally the "dog days of summer",...
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1. Work 2. Visit Fort McHenry 3. Attend Baltimore’s very unique annual “Artscape” 4. Road trip up to Philadelphia for the Mütter Museum of Anatomical Awesomeness 5. Take the Marc Train to DC 6. Spend a day at Delaware’s Eastern...
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Well I seriously was slacking in by blog posting for the summer. Here it is the last week before finals and I’m finally posting a blog. Probably because I had to cram everything in to 10 weeks!! Yes, I only had 7 credits, but as you know grad credits...
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If you are thinking to yourself, "Baltimore has a subway?", then you would be sufficiently surprised to find out that, in fact, it does! The Metro Subway is 15.5 mile, 14 station system that runs from the Johns Hopkins Hospital to Owings Mills...
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I have a dirty little secret. Without the rigors of nursing classes to hose off my new car smell…I've gotten soft this summer. My shoulders aren't tense, I chew my food before swallowing it, and I sleep 7 plus hours a night. I almost feel...
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Wedding week, in my case, was all about damage control. My year and a half of planning was pretty thorough, but there seems to always be those unforseen/unanticipated changes; the aloof bridesmaid the month before the wedding, the absent mate that changed...
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Sitting in my last day of NCLEX review at the hospital, I think these 8 weeks have been quite an experience. On the cardiac care unit at this particular hospital, the ratio is generally 2 or three patients per nurse. I was very lucky to work with a number...
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Q: What exactly is my title or position in the hospital for the summer? A: I work as a “Clinical Associate” on a general medicine floor at the hospital. A Clinical Associate is similar to a CNA, but the work involves more technical tasks related...
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It's June! And here at the SON everything is chilly thanks to an overactive A/C. Call me silly, but I thought windows were designed to be user friendly. After two years of trying to figure out how to open my window I've given up. I've come...
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Culture is what Dan calls it. While my friends spend their weeknights studying, Dan and I take the old guys out for baseball, go to dance lessons or enjoy a date night. While my classmates wisely use their Saturday evening before finals to understand...
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One day during my spring break, I headed up to the Maryland board of nursing to obtain my CNA (clinical nurse assistant) license. I went equipped with my transcript, two passport photos, a money order and the CNA application. Feeling like I was going...
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She dug through the pretzel bag searching for just the right one as her husband fondly looked on. “It’s the little things,” he whispered, as I watched their interaction from the edge of the bed. My patient’s husband predictably...
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Enfin c'est la derniere jour a Haiti! Alas, our final day in Haiti has come! We bid adieu to Jeremie early this morning, boading our 16-seater 'puddle jumper' bi-prop plane to Port-au-Prince. To say that we were sad to leave would be an understatement....
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May 24, 2008 After savoring a delicious rainfall overnight to cool the air, we sat down as a group and talked with the head cook chez Bette to gain a better understanding of the social network here in Jeremie. It was fascinating to hear about her relationships...
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Friday, May 23, 2008 Today we traveled to Robin, a village near Bonbon (the beach we visited yesterday). A group of visiting American nurses and doctors also joined us, along with a number of HHF employees (health agents, midwives, etc…). We went...
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Today was a fun day! A group of us got up early and walked downtown to watch the Corpus Christi procession – lots of singing, praying and beautiful flowers everywhere. Later, we drove out to Bonbon, a small fishing village by the beach. We spent...
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Haitian proverbs for the day: Deye mon, gen mon. (“Beyond the mountain is another mountain”, i.e. what can be seen is not necessarily all there is) Yon sel dwet pa manje kalolou. (“You cannot eat okra with one finger”, i.e. we...
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Today was another amazing day in our public health clinical rotation. We woke up early and headed to the Haitian Health Foundation for our introduction to the KOMBIT project, the program working towards reducing maternal and neonatal mortality (for which...
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This is Team Haiti 5 blogging from Jeremie, Haiti! We arrived in Port au Prince last Saturday with 16 enormous bags packed with medical supplies. After zooming through customs, we boarded a small 2 propeller plane for a short hop west to our destination...
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You know that feeling you get after you've changed into clean underwear, ran a marathon, or been found after 40 days lost at sea? It is the same feeling I now have after completing one year of nursing school...relief. The main take-away lesson learned...
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