first day of orientation as a nurse!

Well....today was my first day of orientation/training for my new job (at the same place though that I've worked as a nurse's aide at for 2 1/2 years)!! There was lots to learn and my brain was working overtime most of the day, but it went pretty well for Day 1! :) I thought my head was gonna explode though once we finally got done with the first med pass! 2 hours straight of pulling meds and then giving them! and then you start all over again not too long after! In between there is charing, doing treatments (such as dressing changes on wounds, incisions, etc.), and whatnot. Then I got asked to stay longer to learn how to do a new admission and boy is that a TON of paperwork! I knew it was a lot, but it was excessive! lol! So today I ended up working 10 hours. whew! It wasn't too bad though and the nurses said I was doing well for the first day (it does help though that I already know the staff and the residents both in the long term area and the rehab area)!! =) Tomorrow I work an 8 hour shift! My normal shift schedule though once I'm done with orientation will be 6 a.m.-6:30 p.m.! I quite enjoyed being able to sign my name "W. Dennison, RN" on all that paperwork today though!!! =D

wedding planning....more...lol

well, the wedding planning and whatnot continues!! today i put all the checks from the girls into my account and am figuring out sizes based on their measurements so that way i can order the dresses before i go to work tomorrow! also working on wedding invitation wording! lots done, but still way more to do and details to work on as well! i know it's still 7 months away (7 months from tomorrow to be exact), but i'm trying to have everything done (obviously there's a few things that have to be finished up a lot closer to the wedding) that can be done before Andy moves into his (then our) apartment because once that happens everything gets a whole lot busier as there is painting and moving to be done, his sister Katie and my brother Andrew graduates from high school, my sister Christa graduates from college, etc. which means that both of our homes will be busy with open house preparations on top of wedding stuff. plus i'm definitely NOT a last minute person especially when it comes to planning stuff. it will be a whole lot less stressful to me if we can get pretty much everything done before May 1st. i love wedding planning for the most part!! but...there is so much to be done and everything seems to take longer than planned......

photography....

well....i liked the name "A Thousand Words Photography" better, but apparently there's a "A Thousand Words Photography" in Ann Arbor, MI. so it looks like i'm gonna go with "Intuition Photography"! :)

Christmas tree....

Yesterday my family and I went to pick out our Christmas tree!!!! =) We always have so much fun!! I'm excited that this is my last Christmas with my family because that means that next Christmas I will be married to Andy!!! But....I'm also kinda sad that this is the last time I will get to do it with my family. It's kind of one of those happy/sad moments. I was also excited yesterday that next year Andy and I could go Christmas tree hunting together for our first Christmas together!! But, then I found out that the apartments where we're planning on moving as of right now doesn't allow live trees because of fire hazards. I guess I should have known that, but I guess I was hoping we could have a real tree. I'm trying not to be too disappointed, but I will admit I teared up a bit....*sigh*....oh well I guess. I know that's not what makes Christmas, but I love traditions and I love real Christmas trees. This will be a year of many changes I'm sure....most of them good!! But, a few changes that I'm sure I will shed a few tears on......

!!!!!

Praise the Lord!!!! i passed my NCLEX (nursing state boards) test!!!!! =) I am officially a nurse!!!! the day i have waited so long for has finally come!!!! i've been dreaming about this day for about 20 years now!!!!! =) all glory goes to God!!! He is good and has brought me to this point!!!! :)

~Whitney Dennison, RN

photography....

well, i've quite enjoyed my new camera so far and i have enjoyed doing some senior pictures and i took some just for fun at a friend's wedding a few months ago and her and her new husband both gave me compliments on the pictures i took and said that they should have had me do they're wedding pics as i did a better job than the photographer they hired for $1000 to do their photography! i was very happy with that compliment and i would love to do wedding photography (and other photography) here and there on the side! (anyone know of anyone getting married in the semi near future that would like a less expensive wedding photographer? anyone one some family Christmas pictures done?) the credit must go to God though because He's the one who is the giver of whatever gift i may have. anyways....i've been thinking about what my photography business name could be and i've got it down to 2 possibilities. the first is "A Thousand Words Photography" and the second is "Intuition Photography". not sure which one yet, but hopefully i can decide soon! :) any thoughts? :)

~Whitney~

today

well today has been good and not so good....church was good and convicting, i got to see Andy which is always good, Andy's not feeling well today which is obviously not so good and on my way to Andy's from David's Bridal, i was on westnedge and some crazy guy decided to slam on his brakes in the middle of an intersection for no apparent reason and i was a good ways behind him but was unable to quite stop in time and so i have a hole in the front of my car from where his trailer hookup or whatever you call it went in, so my car is now damaged and his isn't....super frustrating when it wasn't even my fault. don't have money to fix that right now. i guess i can't really do anything about it so i'll try not to worry about it i guess.