This page was created on June 21, 2003
Last updated on May 10, 2005.


Hello and welcome to my page dedicated to nurses every where.
I have been a nurse for 17 years now and very much enjoy my work.
Nursing is not an easy profession even though it has evolved a lot over the years.
Many times it can be a thankless job, but that is no reason to not want to become a nurse!!
It can also be very rewarding and for me it has!

My nursing career began at the tender age of 18 when I went off to nursing school right after highschool.
It was a very scary experience and their were times when I wondered what the "HECK" had I gotten myself into!!
But I am so glad I stuck with it and graduated a year later with my LPN. (Licensed Practical Nurse) I returned to work at the nursing home in a small rural town in northern Vermont where I had worked as a LNA for ten months prior to going off to nursing school.
I stayed for four years working as a charge nurse on various shifts, but mostly 3-11 pm. My years there were full of many moments!! I learned a great deal and most importantly just how special the art of nursing is!

Nursing is a challenge, you see and have to deal with so many emotions, emotions that your patients are experiencing due to many different things and usually this is from illness and even death...

After about six years of working as an LPN, I decided to go back to school and get my RN.
It was a long and difficult road, but I did it!!!
I graduated from Norwich University in 1999 with an Associates Degree in Nursing.
I have since worked in Community Health Care and LOVE it!!
It’s quite a challenge being out on these snowy Vermont roads in the dead of winter providing skilled nursing care to needy patients in their homes. I hope you enjoy what I have here and don’t forget to let me know you visited!!

UPDATE: - October/2002 - I took a per diem position at a Correctional Facitily last fall of 2002.
A totally different experience I must say, but very interesting. I worked there for about 3 1/2 months and realized that I didn't fit in too well with the staff there. Not the inmates, but the staff!
So I went back to my home health nursing full time and am now the Director of Support Services and enjoying a WHOLE new career experience!

Update: - September/2004 - I have taken a full time position back in long term care as a day supervisor. Kind of like going full circle in my career!

 


Me at the age of 19 during my year of nurses training at The Fanny Allen School of Practical Nursing.
(Notice the cap, those are totally unheard of in today's world of nursing, but back then you had to wear them everyday to clinical!)



 

 



 

May I be a nurse, Lord, With gentle healing hands,
Who always speaks with kindness,
Who cares and understands.
And while I'm serving others as you would have me do,
Please help me to remember That I am truly serving you.
~~robin fogle~~





THE NIGHTINGALE PLEDGE

I solemnly pledge myself before God and in the presence of this assembly,
to pass my life in purity and to practice my profession faithfully.
I will abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous,
and will not take or knowingly administer any harmful drug.
I will do all in my power to maintain and elevate the standard of my profession,
and will hold in confidence all personal matters committed to my keeping
and all family affairs coming to my knowledge in the practice of my calling.
With loyalty will I endeavor to aid the physician, in his work,
and devote myself to the welfare of those committed to my care.















Some links and resources...


[Nurses Station][Cool Nurse]
[Hospice Foundation of America]
[Nurses are Angels]