17 days and counting

I am new to this whole blogging thing, so here goes:

With graduation from nursing school just around the corner (finally) I am finding it challenging to keep up with the assignments that we have left... I am 2 daily logs behind, have an entire QSEN (don't ask) and another research article left. It doesn't seem like a lot when I write it out, but yet, I can't motivate myself to get moving on them. Can they possibly waste my time more with this QSEN stuff (and the focus groups)??? Really? Are we done yet?

I am, however awful the paperwork seems, loving my preceptorship in the NICU, I knew that I would, but it's reassuring that its all I thought it would be. I enjoy working with the nurses on the night shift! (I am trying to stay up now so that I can sleep tomorrow before by last 7 shifts....) Now, to convince a certain nurse manager that she should hire me =)

On another note, my buddy Emerson was re-admitted to the peds floor with fever, gastric dumping and possible rejection. Anyone who knows me, knows about Eme. In her short life, she has gone thru more hell than any 3 year-old should. Born with a metabolic disorder and eventually diagnosed with pseudobstruction, she underwent her first multiple organ transplant in June of 2007. After multiple life threatening episodes of gram-negative sepsis and renal failure, she explanted emergently on New Years Eve 2007. I met her and her mom Erika earlier that fall dursing our peds rotation and instantly felt a connection to the both of them. To start, we are both 'transplant' (ha!) from Colorado. Over the last 15 months, I have been lucky enough to get to know Erika and meet the rest of her family, Jim & the boys. I have watched Erika fight for the treatment Emerson needs to survive and hearing the news that there was a second set of donor organs available. They are in my prayers each day. Erika keeps a blog of their journey here: http://www.cotaforemersonw.com/