Little Miss

Little Miss do your thing.
Little Miss I hate love.
Little Miss hide your fears.


This post is totally inspired by the song "Little Miss" by Sugarland. Normally, I despise Sugarland. Her oooo ooooo oooooooo oooo's drive me more insane than her voice. But this song caught me at the right time Wednesday and has changed my month!

Nursing school is rather intense at this point. Every Monday is a quiz. I'm talking every. single. Monday. Care Plan due Friday. Process Paper due the 20th. Standardized exam the 19th. SIM Lab the 20th. Nursing exam the 8th. Pre-clicial write up due 645 am every morning of your clinical (and these things aren't small people!). Have you broken out yet? Experiencing some tachycardia? This is stress people. I went on Tuesday to start my clinical prep after a loooong day at work so I was less than thrilled. I get my patient assignment, go to meet her and she's not in her room. And I can't find her chart. And no one knows where she is. Awwwwesome.

So I start doing my prep on my partners patient since my patient was her patients roommate. Close enough right? My professor finally calls me back and assigns me a new patient..so I wasted an hour doing the wrong patient. I am furious. Bad attitude kicks in and I want to punch a door. Instead I fake a smile and meet my new patient. I flip through her ginormously large chart to try and find the info I need, which is basically 19 pages worth. This chart is scattered, messy, I can't find shiz. After 4 hours I had given up and left. At this point, I was about 10 minutes away from changing my major. The problem was, I have work the next day and then class..until 8. Basically, there was no way in hell I was gonna be able to finish this thing. My beautiful, gorgeous friend Victoria agreed to help me do my prep with me. Love her.

Next day at work I spend most of the day writing up this prep. Good thing I work with a room full of nurses!

Attitude is everything. It really is. The day before when I had a nasty attitude, it affected everything, including my dreams! Changing my major? That is full on crazy talk! I've wanted to be a nurse since I was little. When I woke up Wednesday with a better attitude, everything got better. I didn't have anymore time, or information, but I did have a new outlook. And that is H-U-G-E people..And even when I didn't save my prep and had to RE-TYPE it, then tried to print it but realized I had no ink, I wasn't mad. I solved the problem and laughed at my luck. And as I'm on my way home from school that night, I hear "Little Miss" on the radio. And the lyrics hit me like a ton of bricks.

"It's alright, it's alright, it's alright
Yeah, sometimes you gotta lose 'til you win
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright
It'll be alright again
It'll be alright again, I'm okay
It'll be alright again, I'm okay (I'm okay)
It'll be alright again, I'm okay"

I am okay. Things will get better. That night, I felt hope. I CAN handle everything nursing school throws my way (and I am:D) I usually don't buy songs on itunes, but I rewarded myself with this song so I can remember it'll be alright again.

Little Miss wear your smile.
Little Miss love your life.
Little Miss live your dreams.