Ode to the instructor................Amber

What a week! What can I say? I would actually like to take this time to commend my nursing instructors. They are honestly amazing! I think that I've complained about being a student since the very first day of class, and I've been noticing more and more just how much students ARE complainers for the most part. I was changing in the hospital one day and I sat there and listened to these two student nurses (I didn't know them) complain about their school work for at least 15 minutes!!

But instructors wake up everyday and come to school to spend time molding us into nurses who will be compentent and compassionate. They pour their life experience into making our experience as nurses a success and joy! They care more about the kind of care we will give our future patients more than they care about the type of grade we get. They take responsibility for who we become and pride in what we've already accomplished. They extend their heart and selves to us!! So incredible!

And I have one instructor (who will probably never read this) right now who is amazing! To be honest I had a few concerns before starting her clinical as she had a reputation to be inapproachable and tough, but as I've spent these last 3 weeks with her I've learned more than I could have possibly taught myself. Not only has she made me more skilled and compentent, she's exposed to us her heart! One class this week she was explaining to us a story of a past patient of hers and tears were running down her face. She is such an inspiration to me! She shows me how being compentent in skill and fact is actually apart of loving your patients.

As cheezy as it sounds, these instructors have given us a cause. They push us to stand up and advocate for our patients, as the hospital is a place of change and vulderbility. There are so many characteristics of God that I see in them, that I hope I hold closely to me for the rest of my life!