For me, 2018 was a year of doing. It was a difficult year, not unlike many people, but I still got shit done. Your Nurse Friday has trended towards nursing and entrepreneur based posts, so I thought I would start off 2019 with a review of what I learned in 2018. There was a lot, but here are some of the highlights. I *almost* finished the greenhouse. In 2017 I started building a greenhouse in our yard, with the goal of having a Frankenstein-y greenhouse made of windows that I was planning to collect over the upcoming year. I did not have to wait that long, because after posting on freecycle.org, I was contacted by a retired scientist who was looking to replace all of the windows in his home and wanted to gift me all of his old ones. After a brief physics lesson on why I could not load 2000 lbs of windows into my Honda CRV, three trips, and *only* two broken windows later, I suddenly had everything I needed to build my greenhouse! After roughly building a frame and creating the skeleton for the building, I started to “pin” my windows in place by putting them […]
Perseverance is something I constantly strive for – I may not be the best or the fastest, but I can keep going, which is why I enjoy running marathons. Perseverance is also something that has been required of me over the past year – as is with many others, 2017 was a difficult year. But, it was also a very productive year, and unfortunately I was not as good at documenting as I had hoped to be. So despite all of the tumultuousness of 2017, I achieved quite a few things, including building a green house, running a 50k, learning new marketing methods for our home health agency, and attending an awesome conference for nurse entrepreneurs. And while I started the Your Nurse Friday blog in 2016, I neglected blogging due to a variety of reasons – I was not sure of how to get started, I was too busy, I did not think anyone would read it, I was active on other social channels…because there are always a million excuses of why not to do something. So this year I will persevere again with my Your Nurse Friday blog. To start off this first blog of 2018, I will […]
All About Me My name is Elais and this is all about me, Your Nurse Friday (in fact, you can find this on my about me page as well, because…this is about me!). I did not initially begin my educational path knowing that I wanted to be a nurse, I did, in fact, want to be a coroner. I was inspired by years of watching Scully on the X-Files – her skeptical and medically centered approach acting as a grounding force for the weekly bizarre and quirky episodes revolving around the paranormal. I had several opportunities to shadow medical professionals (surgeons and scientists) while in high school and attended a weeklong introduction to medicine after graduating high school, which is where I witnessed my first autopsy. I started university in Vancouver, British Columbia feeling confident that the path towards my life as a coroner was the right one for me…unfortunately Chemistry 101 did not feel the same way. After I failed my first class ever (along with more than 70% of my classmates), I finished first term of my first year feeling completely lost. I decided to enroll in more arts based classes in my second term, which is how […]