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Hey Everyone,

I received another “ask me a question” and it comes from Marie and here is what she asked:

“Does it matter what hospitals you do your clinicals at? I am starting a nursing program at a University that has 2 Nursing campuses in different cities. They are the same programs, but one is older and has affiliations with more Hospitals, but is smaller and harder to enroll in classes I need. The other is newer, has a larger campus and therefore easier to enroll in the classes I need but because their nursing program is newer they are not affiliated with very many Hospitals.”

Marie thanks for you question. I understand your concern on if you should enroll in the clinicals/classes that are more affiliated with the local hospitals because getting hired will be easier. However, the school I went to was affiliated with the local hospital in my area and many of the students from my school got jobs from the hospital but so did other students who did not attend affiliated schools.

I really don’t think it will affect you but if you are worried about it I would ask you admission office to make sure. When you start looking for a job I would be really aggressive and start early so you can get a position. If you are worried about the opportunities you may get I wouldn’t worry about it because you will probably have access to better equipment and resources than the older school.

I hope I answered you question and good luck Marie!

Sarah

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Hey Everyone,

I hope everyone is having a good Friday. I know I am! Yesterday I didn’t have clinicals like I thought I would…. because remember how I was suppose to be with the House Supervisor on Thursday…well since they are doing budget cuts they are cutting some management positions and they don’t want students with them right now because of how everything is going right now (not sure what that means lol). Luckily one of my friends told me that she didn’t get have to be with the House Super on Monday and she found out by showing up at 545am and the House Super told her students weren’t allowed to shadow anymore so she had to go home. I had no clue about this until my friend told me on Wednesday. I would have shown up at 545am (wasting precious sleeping time and gas) to be told to go home. It was good I didn’t have to go because I wasn’t really feeling it but I now have to make up 12 hours. So it looks like I won’t be finishing as earlier as I was hoping!

So yesterday instead of having clinicals I enjoyed the beautiful weather outside. It was sunny, breezy, and around 65′F which made perfect weather for flying kites. I know you are probably thinking “flying kites…how old is she again” but I still have a little piece of inner kid in me. Ben gets a kick out of me flying kites. I bought the kite last year in March on Spring Break for a dollar at Wal-mart. It’s Hello Kitty lol and pink. I love pink…so that is why I mainly bought it. Here are pictures that I put in a slide show of my kite flying.

So as you know graduation is coming up…woohoo! Ben has already given me my early graduation present. I told him that for graduation I want to leave here and do something fun….but I want it to be cheap..nothing too expensive since we are going to buy a house this summer. I have been hinting to him to buy Dollywood Season Passes because I LOVE Dollywood and I haven’t been there is like 4 years. Plus Ben and I have some good memories of Dollywood because it was our first real vacation together when we first started dating. Ben is not good at keeping secrets so he gave them to be early (I think I was pestering him to death lol). We got a good deal on them because we purchased them early and plus on top of that we got all of these coupons (I guess they are giving out good deals because of the economy). When you buy a season pass you get the following with each season pass: 1 Bring a Friend Free, 1 Bring a Friend half off, 1 Bring a Kid Free, One 2 for 1 game coupon. It’s a good deal because we want to take some people in our family with us later on in the year too. So get ready for some blog posts later this year about my Dollywood adventures and some pictures lol!

Well I’m off to be productive today. I hope everyone is doing good! Until next time,

Sarah

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