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    Hi! I'm Traci. I'm a Registered Nurse who loves quilting, knitting, cross stitch, and the great outdoors. In my pre-scrubs life, I owned Real Photography, and you can still see my old wedding and portrait photography site here .

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Category Archives: nursing school

Nursing School Recap

Today marks my one year anniversary as a working Registered Nurse, and I still haven’t gotten around to writing a final semester wrap-up post from nursing school.  To be honest, I was waiting until I could write about nursing school without sounding negative, but 13 months later I’m just not sure I’ll ever get there. […]

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RN to BSN in 3 Months: WGU in Less than One Term

Last week I received my diploma from Western Governors University for my BSN, finally completing this path that I started just shy of seven years ago.  (That sounds crazy, but I looked it up and I took my very first pre-req in the summer of 2011.) When I proposed going back to school to become […]

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Made it.

Well, that was a rough one.  In its defense, everyone from the very beginning had said that the third semester would be the one to make you want to throw yourself into a bathtub with a toaster.  I was actually extremely lucky in that all of my Terrible stemmed solely from nursing school. Take away […]

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at least it wasn’t an ear, i guess.

Today I walked into the hair salon for a trim and walked out having chopped off 11 inches. Two weeks ago completely out of the blue I told my sister-in-law that for the first time in my life I was really happy with my hair.  That I was truly happy with my hair.  That I […]

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I survived psych without getting shivved!

  Another bimester down, only three more to go!  I’m only 1.5 semesters away from graduation!! This bimester I was in psych, and in terms of testing and grades, it was one of the easier classes.  Once you figure out the “rules” of therapeutic communication and psych in general (who is the greatest threat to […]

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