July 8, 2010 · Category: Editorial
Author: Anna Viet, SN, BSN, CNSA Communications Director, 2009-2010, conventiondirector@cnsa.org
When looking for inspiration one tends to come across cliché quotes such as “As long as you learn from your mistakes”, “Whatever doesn’t kill you will make you stronger”, and “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade”. We all know that nursing school is one of the toughest things that some of us had to endure or are still undergoing. Nursing is such a unique profession and opportunity that a variety of people take on. Each nursing student must not only carry the weight of the wealth of knowledge that we are expected to absorb, but in addition, some juggle having a family to provide for, ending and beginning new relationships, or struggle simply from the “growing pains” of finding oneself and maturing.
Anyone that has graduated from nursing school will give a nursing student the same assurance that everything will be okay and that “we will get through it” just has they have. Knowing this piece of wisdom however does not always make taking a final any easier. Instead of constantly anticipating our graduation, maybe it would be more productive to stop for a moment to enjoy what we are going through.
Enjoy the exams because they allow you to bond and foster friendships through study groups. Enjoy the clinical rotations and preceptorships because one day we may have students eager to learn from us. Enjoy the long hours because you have made a difference in someone’s life. Enjoy nursing school and summers off, because when we graduate, most of us will be spending the majority of the rest of our lives in a hospital. Everything happens for a reason we just have to embrace it and take each challenge, each hardship, and each bump in the road one day at a time. I leave you all with one final quote that really stood out to me: “Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass… it’s about learning how to dance in the rain.” –anonymous
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