So I have a confession and announcement: When I started this blog a few weeks ago, I was unemployed. Shock, right? (More like between jobs, actually). However I am happy to announce that I am taking a job as a Patient Care Technician at a hospital in Lexington, KY. This has sort of been my (student) dream job since I was a freshman in college, so I’m pretty excited about it. And after almost a month and a half of not having a job, I’m ready to get back to work.
I have another announcement: My official move-in date is tomorrow. I’ve been sort of camping out in my significant other’s apartment since mid July but a bulk of my stuff is back in Columbus, OH. My new apartment here in Lexington is a stone’s throw from the campus of the University of Kentucky, where I will be starting in about, oh, 12 days.
Yep, I’m a college student again right after getting a bachelors of science in psychology (with a minor in neuroscience—most schools don’t have a major for neuro). My first degree took me the golden 5 years, but to be fair, I changed majors several times and was pre-medicine, worked a bunch, volunteered, did research, and was in the OSU Men’s Glee Club. So it wasn’t exactly leisurely.
In one of my earlier blogs I talked about going the pre-med route, so if you want details as to how that went, look back. While it may seem to some people like a waste now, I’m glad I got the experience and knowledge associated with it. Because now I am applying to a second-degree bachelors of science in nursing program. Basically it’s a four-year program knocked down to five semesters since the people applying already have a lot of the classes that nurses take. In my case, I have a lot going on for me because the pre-med classes are generally higher level than the pre-nursing classes. Simple case of numbers: Organic chemistry 252 > organic chemistry 102.
So I have good chances of getting in, but it’s not a slam dunk because I suspect a lot of the other people applying will be nurse’s aides, phlebotomists (people who draw blood), and even paramedics and EMTs. They have a lot of work experience. I’m sure there will be at least someone else who is pretty much fresh out of college and has found that their degree is not exactly highly sought after.
Since the program is starting in January, I’m taking this semester to take the one class I somehow missed: Microbiology. I’ll keep you posted on that.
After getting the BSN I plan to get the clinical doctorate in nursing, the Doctor of Nursing Practice. It’s what all nurse practitioners past 2015 will be required to get. The DNP is considered the more patient-care oriented degree and the PhD is considered the more academic and research oriented doctorate. So basically in the end I’ll be a doctor, just not an M.D. or a D.O.
This is basically a very roundabout way of saying that I’m moving to Lexington for school and now as an added bonus I have a job, which I’m probably going to try to do near full time for this first semester. It’s night shift, 7:00 PM to 7:00 AM, but at my old job I worked nights so it’s nothing I’m not used to. I’m definitely going to miss Columbus and Ohio, as well as my family and all the friends I have there, but life must go on. I look forward to starting my new job on Monday, and I look forward to getting the move over with.
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