Hard work pays off eventually....

Going into the last few week of his semester its finally starting to hit me that graduation is near and all the hard work is going to pay off. When you first get accepted into a program it seems as if the time goes by so slow and the end is so far. Let me tell you this semester has flown by and we have been so busy. It seems as if time is going faster than we can keep up with.

During spring break I go to do one of my final steps of the semester and take part in my internship at a hospital of my choice. I chose to do my internship at the near by children s hospital and I could not have been more eager and excited. When you are participating in your internship you are there on your own without your clinical instructors and other classmates as we are use to having when we have our regular clinical rotations. You are assigned to a unit of your choice, I choice to be in the NICU (Neonatal intensive care unit) because when I graduate that is where I hope to be. Once I arrived I was assigned to be with a fellow therapist who was scheduled in the unit for that day and basically take there workload and do all the daily requirements and work units while they supervised me. It was an awesome experience to get a little taste of what a respiratory therapist does throughout a whole shift. I ended up doing my shift during the graveyard shift. Never have I stayed up an entire night and there is no excuses tired or not if you want to sleep or night. My 12 hour shift ending up turning into 15 hour shift including the drive to and from. My first night I was frightened that I was not going to be able to hang the whole night, but once your actually in the hospital setting the staying awake part wasn't that hard for me after all I did three graveyard shifts back to back and even on the last day I had to be back to my regular job that early afternoon after I had just finished my 12 hour shift. After my days and all that I got to experience I decided that I enjoyed the night shift after all and would like to choose that shift once I get hired. Little strange most people would not choose that shift but he atmosphere is so much different compared to days. You still encounter the same situations because we all know that he world doesn't sleep. But I suppose its personal preference and not everyone is made out to do night shift.


These last few weeks we have just been preparing to take our board exam to earn our credentials. Right now we are almost to the finish line. Never did I think I would be where I am today with all the struggles and obstacles that have come my way. But never have I stopped believing that I was capable of doing what I have my mind set on, nor ever lost my faith even when it seemed like everything was falling apart. I recently just received my first job offer and couldn't be more blessed that its at the first choice hospital on my list of where I would love to work. Now its all up to these last few weeks to overcome, graduate and pass our board exam to get where I want to be for now. This ride has definitely  been an adventure. I've established some amazing friendship while going on this RT journey and couldn't be more grateful. I cant way to begin my new journey once the end of this chapter closes.

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