ITs 2:37 on a saturday, possibly my second to last in cleveland for a while as i have made the decision to accept the job in frankfort, KY and will be reporting for my first day of orientation on sept 14th. I cannot believe this!!! Im so excited and ready to start my nursing career on a ICU step down floor...after i am completely on my own and doing well i will be cross trained for the ICU as well since these 2 floors work together. This hospital is amazing! it is run entirely by nurses and it is completely dedicated to enforcing nurses to go back to school, become accrediated and specialists and gives tuition reimbursement as well as grade incentives and it has a clinical ladder program that gives you a large large bonus based on your involvement in the hospital, education, and research adn many other thinga available to you in the community and hopsital. there is a nursing banquet once a year that awards nurses for there hard work, offering awards and scholarships from physicians and nurses and hospital boards. Every person i ahve met at this hospital seems to have the exact same personality as me. I coulnt be more excited! I will be working nights after my orientation which is days. The orientation process can last anywhere from 8 - 12 weeks and it is completely up to my comfort on when it is over, Once a week i will have meetings with the manager, my preceptor and the nurse educator of my floor to go over my stengths, weaknesses adn growth and map out my progess and once i am ready i will be moved to nights. these floors emphasize teamwork so i will never ever be on my own or feel lost! everyone works together and it seems like everyone loves to work here. I am so happy that i am blessed enough to be in such a working environment. It will be so strange to be away from home. I can tell my family is less than thrilled with this and nto ready to let me go,. But its a nursing schedule where i will be wokring 3 12's a week which leaves me plenty of opportunites to come home, and i plan on doing so once a month! im a family girl, i could never leave for long. and i will be able to come home a lot more that i did in college which really was a rare occurance! Im so ready to begin this chapter of my life although i am scared to death adn will probably want to come home eveyr day until i am aquianted with it.
marks grandma told me i should keep a journal of my changes as they come adn how different it will be for me, city girl moving to the country...well sort of! i plan on getting an apartment in lexington which is a bigger city! but the country is near! i happened to go with marks mom and grandma to the farm and i worked in the garden with them as they showed me how to pick beans and squash and tomatoes...they are also growing watermelons and pumpkins which are sooooo big its unbelievable!

Well now i am off to church with nana and mom. Im a little scared to see nana because i know she has to be upset that i am leaving, and i think she thinks its a personal attack that i am leaving "her". I cant help feel like everyone things i am dying the way they are treating me ..."one last time" seems to be a constant phrase these days...but i know once things get into a pattern it will feel normal and it will be like it always was.....there are a lot of mixed emotions going on but i know Gods will is prevailing as i have prayed and prayed it will. I feel like this is the right thing to do . hopefully everyone can see that too. I will shine.