I'm going to fast forward past the rough teenage years (you'll probably get snippets of this throughout the blog as I continue writing) start around college. I pretty much always knew I wanted to be a nurse... an oncology (cancer) nurse to be more specific but I also at that time had a heart for Africa and thought God was leading me towards a life of medical missions overseas. I started going on short-term mission trips pretty young and continued to do them throughout college to the most recent one which was about 3 weeks ago.
My college & career path regarding becoming a registered nurse was clear until that moment where I got a C- freshman year second semester of nursing school and got held back a year. At first I just thought I'm never going to be a nurse but alas God knew what he was doing. Due to a new curriculum set into place the following school year, I essentially started fresh in the what was suppose to be a 2 year RN program. The next two years were a blur. With a little bit of low self esteem going in I was still determined to pass Gwynedd's program. During these two years I studied my butt off, worked 2-3 jobs during school, got involved with campus ministries/Alternative Spring Break/SGA, but most importantly, made life-long friendships with people I would have never met. I did a lot of these things the first year at Gwynedd too but years two & three were a lot different.
Back to the point... Although a lot had occurred and was going on, I graduated in May of 2008 from Gwynedd with my Associates of Science in Nursing! At that time the Dean of Nursing had to approve you to take the nclex... She did approve very reluctantly but told me straight up that due to my freshman year & a practice test she didn't think I would pass the boards. Well, you already know how this story ends. I passed the boards in 75 questions on the first time and made sure she knew.
God always has the right timing. I was able to get an oncology job right out of nursing school after working as a tech in the NICU for a little over a year during school (thanks again Mary for helping me get that job!). About two years later I found God calling me to NC where I've been working for the past two years at Duke in Oncology and graduated from Drexel University in December 2011 with my Bachelors of Science in Nursing!!! Yay, for signing RN, BSN behind my name! Again, these two years have been a blur but God placed me exactly where I needed to be, in the church I needed to be in, with a new group of friends that I needed to be with.
So with all that said it leads me up to getting to my main focus of this blog... Deepening my relationship with God, becoming debt free, & moving to Haiti.
...to be continued...
-B
