Tomorrow I will graduate with a Masters of Science in Nursing! I can’t wait!! Although I’ve been done with school for a little over a week, this will really solidify in my head that I am done! Next stop: PNCB exam!
Not much to say today–too excited for thoughtful comments I guess 
~love always~
Jen
It’s that time!! Signing up for the PNCB Pediatric NP Primary Care board examination. The first step is to sign up for the exam at http://www.pncb.org . From here you will need to create an account. The way I did it was click on the top link that says CERTIFY, find the examination (Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Primary Care for me), and then log-in with one of two options: the quick log-in, which finds all your information for you using the BORN or creating a username/password and account information. After you are logged-in you click on the “Application for Computer Based Exam” and fill out any necessary information and of course pay the fee to take the test. At this time I also purchased the Peds Prep Module, which includes 2 modules of 75 questions each. I probably will take these close to the test date to make sure I’m ready (or maybe one now and one later I haven’t really decided). It only took a day for them to process my exam info. My status is now that they are just waiting on my FINAL transcripts from school, which I will be able to request in about a week. I could have waited to have everything together, but there really is no reason. I now have an account open with the PNCB and they are ready for my transcripts to complete the process.
Stay tuned for more about signing up for the exam and eventually about credentialing as well (an even bigger process than taking the exam itself it seems)!
~love always~
Jen
Yesterday I attended/participated in Regis College’s Graduate Hooding Ceremony. It is where the graduate students are celebrated and they are presented with their hoods as a commemoration of their achievements. My parents, Sam, and his parents all came to support me, which was so great to have people so proud of me! The ceremony was beautiful with some nice student speakers and a thoughtful way to celebrate us graduate students! Although 1/3 of the students at Regis College who are graduating are graduate students, we still can get lost in the shuffle at times (which is to be expected honestly–we all had an undergraduate “experience”, now we were here as graduate students to further our education), so it was nice to have a ceremony just for us. One of my fellow TRAIN helpers won the Master of Science in Nursing award, which was awesome! Very proud of her, and much deserved! It also marks that we are that much closer to graduating. Today was graduation rehearsal and Saturday will be graduation! Can’t wait!
~love always~
Jen
And I’m enjoying every minute. I’m finishing up that 3000 piece puzzle I started a while ago (I only have the sky left to do), my house is cleaner than it has been in months, I’m in a great mood all the time, I have energy, and I feel like I have time to actually give people the attention they deserve when they talk to me. My boyfriend, my cat, my extended family, and even my home and garden are loving the attention they are getting. Soon I’ll be celebrating with my classmates for everything we’ve been through the past three years. In two weeks, I’ll start up my mega study schedule for the boards (upcoming post on how to sign up for the PNCB exam). But until then I’m certainly enjoying my free time.
~love always~
Jen
I took my last final last night. I also received my grade within hours–officially passed all my classes with flying colors. I’m done with my master’s degree in nursing! It has been a LONG three years, but it has been so worth it and I don’t regret one bit pushing through the master’s part even though it was so physically and emotionally draining. Graduation is next week and I’m looking forward to celebrating with everyone. I still have to take my boards of course, so I’m not quite done with everything, but this is still such a huge accomplishment I can’t be anything but proud of myself.
Congrats to everyone who is finishing up this semester and sending lots of positive motivation to everyone who is still working toward their degrees!
~love always~
Jen
Have you ever seen the youtube video of the woman who is making a “get to know me” video for a dating site and then ends up crying about cats? If you haven’t here is the link. That was me today haha. After studying for many many hours straight and all the emotions and stress of tomorrow night being my LAST FINAL EVER, I walked down stairs of my house to get a snack and saw my cat curled up in a cute little ball and I started crying because I love her so much. Which of course then turned into hysterical laughter because I was being ridiculous and I’m so overtired. Going to get a good night sleep tonight and I’ll let you know how it goes tomorrow!
Daphne–she’s almost 2 years old now!
Also wanted to let everyone know that Sam and I completed Week 3 Day 2 of the Couch to 5K today too!
~love always~
Jen
Classes are officially completed. Now I’m just studying for my final, which is on Thursday. It honestly doesn’t feel real–probably why I keep writing these countdown posts haha. They’re almost done though!
Back to studying!
Good luck to everyone on their finals!!
~love always~
Jen
Finished clinicals last week. Tomorrow (Monday) is my last class and Thursday is my one and only final. Other than working for the dog walking company it is going to be weird to have so much time on my hands!! Although knowing me I will find plenty of stuff to fill it up with.
I’m busy studying, but it will all be over soon!!
~love always~
Jen
I have one more day of classes and then one final until I’m done with school! Hence why I’ve been MIA recently…although I do not feel as stressed with the amount of work I have been busy nonetheless. I’m getting myself into new routines (or reestablishing old ones) of housework, exercise, cooking, social life, family life, etc. that I had neglected throughout the semester. I also am starting to focus more and more on what I need to do to prepare for the PNCB exam and prepare for graduation (exit counseling for loans, filling out lots of surveys, starting to peek at jobs, updating my resume, etc etc). Anyway, it’s all very exciting, but I am also reestablishing my blogging routine so you should be hearing from me more regularly! Over the next few weeks I hope to look back at my Brainstorming list and do some quality posts, especially with exciting graduation, vacation, my 25th birthday, and the PNCB exam prep coming up! Lots to discuss so keep checking back!
Also brief update from my last post–Sam and I just completed Week 2 of Couch to 5K–7 weeks to go, but so far so good!
~love always~
Jen
Hi my name is Jen. I am a 24 year old registered nurse and am in my last year of an accelerated BSN/MSN program to get my pediatric nurse practitioner license. I write this blog about all aspects of my life. I hope you find my blog as therapeutic to read as I do to write!
