Taking the Long Way Around: Becoming a Nurse
The people who helped me through it all! Taking the long way around... it can be challenging, defeating, and also frustrating. Sometimes you don't know what is at the end. You think the end will never come in some cases. You keep going and going and for some reason you just can't figure it out. I am very familiar with this concept. As the title states, I took the long way around to become a nurse. This wasn't by choice I want to emphasizes. If I could have been a nurse two years ago, I would have. But in this blog post, I want share my journey to getting where I did today. In 2014 I graduated from my high school. In my speech, I vividly remember telling the crowd that I was pursuing a career in teaching. This wasn't a lie. I did pursue teaching for a brief period. But if you know anything about Oklahoma, you know that teachers are basically disregarded and left to fend on their own. I wasn't about that life. (This blog is kind of an outlet for my desire ...