"Oh, You Go to Gardner-Webb"

I spent this weekend at home. After returning from spring break, I realized that I had left my phone charger at home, along with a few other needed items. So, nothing left to do but head back home to get them. It was not a purely leisurely weekend. I was busy studying for a nursing test, and making a quality improvement poster for that same nursing class…all due on Tuesday!
Not to mention, I also had a skills poster due for my low impact aerobics class on Tuesday! I had already completed the skills poster, so I was thankful I didn’t have to worry about that.

My quality improvement poster is a presentation on how nurses can prevent specimen labeling errors. I was able to collect a few items from the nursing lab to glue on my poster. (i.e. biohazard bag, small collection container, gloves, wound culture set, etc) I wanted to use my creativity to make the poster interesting. My mom is also a very creative person, so I decided to get her to assist me in gluing all the items and information on the poster. We put our ideas together and created a very interesting poster. I expect to make a very good grade on it.

Besides working on the poster and studying, I also attended the Open House at NC Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem. I got to go on a tour of various units in the hospital and even gave out a resume to the manager of a medical-surgical floor. I liked the atmosphere of the hospital and the nurse managers and recruiters that I spoke with were all very nice and helpful. I was surprised to find that the nurse recruiters and managers immediately recognized Gardner-Webb when they found out that I was a nursing student there. One recruiter had even gotten her Bachelor’s degree in nursing from GWU. When the nurse manager glanced over my resume, the first thing she said was “Oh, you go to Gardner-Webb; that’s great.” I think that speaks volumes about GWU and its nursing program. It’s awesome that Gardner-Webb is so well known at such a prestigious medical facility!