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I have gone through my first year of MEPN (Master's Entrance Program of Nursing) at UCSF. I have graduated and become an RN. This is my journey.
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About "One Year Nurse"
Hi there. My name is Nat. I have finished my first-year as nursing student at UCSF in their Master's Entrance Program of Nursing (MEPN). I'm now an RN. It's an accelerated program and pretty much nuts. And amazing. It's nuts and amazing. When it's all said and done, I will be a Critical Care/Trauma Clinical Nurse Specialist. Mostly I just want to figure out how to be a damn good nurse. I think I'm getting there...
This blog is an autobiographical chronicle of my experiences prior to and during my time at UCSF. I now work at a hospital in San Francisco with cardiothoracic patients on a telemetry unity. Unless otherwise noted, all entries prior to December 2007 were written as journal entries without the thought of publishing and/or blogging.
In a former life, I was a teacher, social worker, live-in group home counselor at various places in the San Francisco Bay Area as well as Newark, NJ. I currently reside in Emeryville, CA with my girlfriend, Alex, her daughter, and my cat, Little Boy. If you want a more specific picture of what I did and how it lead me to nursing, I've actually included the personal statement that got me into UCSF, dated 09/01/06.
I will write a longer entry at least monthly, with smatterings of more "bloggish" entries interspersed. Entries range from deeply personal to pedantically clinical. All my personal information is true. Clinical/procedure information is intended as my interpretation of the facts but should not be considered to be definitive. Information about clinical interactions with staff and patients, although kinda-sorta true, have had significant changes made to their names and identifying characteristics in order to protect confidential information. Most patients and staff are composites of people that I've met. Locations of hospitals and clinics will not be given. Although entries have been fictionalized to an extent, all of these events "happened" to me, if you catch my drift...consider it a memoir of sorts.
This blog is an autobiographical chronicle of my experiences prior to and during my time at UCSF. I now work at a hospital in San Francisco with cardiothoracic patients on a telemetry unity. Unless otherwise noted, all entries prior to December 2007 were written as journal entries without the thought of publishing and/or blogging.
In a former life, I was a teacher, social worker, live-in group home counselor at various places in the San Francisco Bay Area as well as Newark, NJ. I currently reside in Emeryville, CA with my girlfriend, Alex, her daughter, and my cat, Little Boy. If you want a more specific picture of what I did and how it lead me to nursing, I've actually included the personal statement that got me into UCSF, dated 09/01/06.
I will write a longer entry at least monthly, with smatterings of more "bloggish" entries interspersed. Entries range from deeply personal to pedantically clinical. All my personal information is true. Clinical/procedure information is intended as my interpretation of the facts but should not be considered to be definitive. Information about clinical interactions with staff and patients, although kinda-sorta true, have had significant changes made to their names and identifying characteristics in order to protect confidential information. Most patients and staff are composites of people that I've met. Locations of hospitals and clinics will not be given. Although entries have been fictionalized to an extent, all of these events "happened" to me, if you catch my drift...consider it a memoir of sorts.
3 comments:
Hi Nat! Oh my God, I just cannot get over the coincidence of your "relax" video. I was accepted to the UW MEPN program the beginning of this year, which will begin in June. A few days after receiving my admittance letter, a friend and I had lunch, and then meandered into a vintage clothing and accessories store in Seattle. I walked out with a vintage pair of roller skates, and planned on rewarding myself for getting admitted with a skate. Well, Here it is a few months later, I have a hobby I love, and I have fallen in absolute love with my new skates from skates.com, who incidentally are located in SF. I still have the old white ones, but I needed something more comfortable. I have been skating almost daily since, and it is the most wonderful, relaxing, fantastically fun exercise imaginable. I hope it will help me unwind after grueling days of nursing clinicals... if i can find the time, that is!
Here's to MEPN!!!
Good luck to you Nat, and thanks for sharing the video. Nothing like seeing smiling people on roller skates. ;)
Beth Lamb
Cute....reminds me of being a kid in San fran, that dude on the bike and all the gnarly skaters, tight...on a side note didn't UW MEPN get phased out 2007/2008? I'll be doing a MEPN somewhere next year. --wood
almost a year exactly to respond! that's funny. yes, i have now been skating throughout my mepn career, and it has destressed me like nothing else could.
yes, the mepn (master's entry program in nursing) is now phased out, so people have to get a doctorate to become a nurse practitioner at Univ. WA., and they are calling it Gepn, (graduate entry program in nursing) which i think is silly, since mepn is technically a graduate program as well. the reason for this was ridiculous. they were calling it DEPN, for Doctor entry program in nursing, but someone from austria said that that was a word which meant idiot or something similar, in german. go figure.
take care!
beth lamb
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