The lost summer

The one thing they don’t tell you when you start nursing is the fact your summers are lost forever from that day on, swallowed up in that black hole of placement and stress. How I love nursing 🙂
So while all the other students in the university are posting on Facebook and chatting amongst themselves about;

how awesome this summer is going to be

Or

I can’t wait for my holiday in the sun

us student nurses are gearing up for a summer full of placement, coursework and having to listen to others going on about their summers of doing nothing or going traveling.

Today was just like the picture above so sunny and warm, sitting out in my wee garden after a day in Uni almost made me forget about the looming 13 weeks of placement coming up next week. I think though as much as we all moan about it -and we do all moan regardless of what some might say, while others are away on partying holidays to Ibiza and the like or sitting in beer gardens we are holding the hands of those in their time of need. We are providing that shoulder to cry on or that listening ear that might just help improve someone’s life for the better. In a way I feel privileged being able to spend my summer helping others after all it is what I am going to do for the rest of my nursing career. On the bright side I have been able to factor in a week off in exchange for a possible extra on placement so I can go to Finland, so I am super excited about that.

Operation get to third year is in full swing just this final placement to go and that is it I’m going to be a big bad third year nursing student, your nursing course absolutely flies by I still feel as if I have just started first year.