Brittany Krieger, RN

Once again, it has been so long between posts that I had to go back and read my last one to see where I left off. I took the NCLEX near the end of July and am proud to say that I am officially a nurse now! The NCLEX is a very weird test and most people who take it think they failed miserably. I had absolutely NO CLUE how I did. Luckily I took the minimum amount of questions which means that I passed easily or bombed it. I didn't feel like I bombed it so I was hopeful. The next day I was able to receive confirmation online that I am officially an RN. I was offered a per diem job at my current doctors office where I have been working for almost 3 years. I will be starting IVs and doing the pre and post procedure care when patients come in for epidural steroid injections and other various procedures that we perform. I had my first day of training last Friday and it was a lot of fun! I had to successfully start three IVs on coworkers before I could try on patients. I got my first nursing paycheck yesterday and let me tell you how nice it was getting paid a nurse wage, even for only working 5 hours! I am in limbo with a job at the hospital right now. I spoke with the nurse manager for neuro/ortho last week and she made it sound like she would give me a job. Now I am just waiting. We will see.

This week daily doubles started for OSU cheerleading. Do I tend to put too much on my plate? Definitely. I worked a lot this week so I wasn't able to attend very many practices. But I am excited for the first beaver football game in one week. I am one of the orange squad coaches. Orange squad is the "JV" team and cheers at volleyball and women's basketball games. I will still get to coach on the field at the football games though which I am very excited about.

I don't think there is much else going on in the Krieger household. We had so much fun on our trip out east. We had a lot of fun in North Carolina with Chris' family and I actually did really well on the 10-12 hour drive to Kentucky. It was so fun seeing a lot of extended family. On our way out to North Carolina, we volunteered to take a flight 40 minutes later and in turn received two flying vouchers. We want to use them for Hawaii but I need to get a job established first. On our way home, we stopped in Vegas for UFC 100. That was fun since we got to meet up with two of our good friends, Tre and Jordan, who were on their honeymoon. I have to admit that Vegas is not my favorite place though because of all of the smoking and I wouldn't consider myself a party animal at all. I also did fairly well at the Blackjack table and ended up tripling my money! Not too shabby for a once addicted gambler (just kidding).