Jennifer Vitti

I was all ready to drive back up to Skidmore today. In fact I’m STILL READY! But it had to snow…and I of course happen to be in the one tiny region that is more likely to get 6-9 inches vs. the rest of MA that is only getting 3-6! I have stuff to do. And I just want to go back and get it over with! So instead right now  I’m sitting at my computer in my pjs, surfing the internet, blogging, and writing in my nursing forums (which by the way I love and will talk about in a sec) when I should be driving up to Skidmore, unpacking, running errands, and visiting with old friends. GRRR! I’m still hoping though that it will slow down (especially because if it keeps up like this we’re gonna have WELL over 9”) and the roads will get treated in time for me to execute my new plan of leaving between 1 and 2 PM. If it gets too much later than that though I’m going to have to leave tomorrow and that just will not be very good for my schedule.

Anyway so on to happier things. I just joined this forum the other day: http://allnurses.com And I’m in love with it! Everyone there is so nice and I have found some of my potential future classmates in there and I even posted my first thread today a few minutes ago and already 3 people have replied. I posted about one of my biggest concerns going into the field: looking too young. I asked if anyone had any experience with this and how they handled it/if it was a problem/were they taken seriously. I am 21, but I look like I’m 15-16 and people always say I’ll appreciate it when I’m older, but if it affects my career then no I will not appreciate it EVER. However, I have gotten some good responses… people were saying that it happens quite a lot (especially when you can become an RN right out of college ya know? not to mention the people who like me just look young in general–well actually I guess I have both going against me…I look super young and I am on the younger side of the field), but when they corrected people saying I’m such and such age or showing the patients their badge and saying I am a licensed RN or whatever their professional title was, the people were pretty respectful of their training. See my biggest fear is that people will know that I’m a nurse or an NP, but because of how young I look they won’t want me. *sigh* I guess we’ll see, but I’m hopeful with the positive responses I’ve gotten so far =)

~love always~

Jen

p.s. HOPE THAT I MAKE IT TO SARATOGA TODAY!