End of Semester

The end of the semester is coming soon, and I want to take this time to first wish everyone success in the final examinations, and also to thank all the people that have helped me go through this semester. I hope that everyone reading this post will do well in our exams so we can go into clinical next semester and use all the skills we have learned. I know that each one of us will be a great nurse and we will be a great asset to the health care system. I also hope that I continue to work along your side so that I can have a pleasant clinical practice as I had a pleasant study term. Thank you all, and God bless.

Happy Nursing!

Dia de muertos... The Day of the Death

The day of the death is a Mexican celebration where death is actually seen as a natural and expected event. Death is satirized in this celebration and portrayed through figures, poetry and altars to be a joyful celebration. In most cultures death is seen as a sorrowful event and is perceived as a taboo. But in Mexico, every November 2nd the cities are covered with flowers, altars, and ornaments to represent death. I like this celebration because in a way it shows that death is part of life and it will be a part of our nursing career. We will be faced with death every instant in our practice. Sometimes death will come unexpectedly, and sometimes it will just be a matter of time before it arrives. I believe it will be our duty to give comfort to those patients that are expecting their death, and to make them believe that death is part of the cycle of life. I hope that we all see the life in every death situation, so that we can transfer that life into our patients.

Happy Nursing!

Picture from: http://library.thinkquest.org/05aug/01280/Mexico/mexicanhistory/Mexican_Customs.htm