Nursing School Mergers and Remergers: Lisa’s Story

Do you maintain relationships with individuals who got here and went out of your life at the correct time? People with whom you will have such a deep bond that irrespective of how much time has passed, you continue to maintain a friendship without missing a beat? This is how I might describe my relationship with Myrna.

In the spring of 1990, my parents and I attended an open house on the nursing school I can be attending that fall. The program involved separating parents from prospective students for various sessions. When we met again, my parents introduced me to a few with whom they quickly became friends – who happened to be from the identical hometown! It was Myrna’s mom and pa! And that is how our parents first introduced Myrna and me. We spent a while talking that day, amazed that we had never met at home before. We went to different high schools, but we literally lived five miles from one another!

So we began school and quickly became friends. Our nursing class was sufficiently small that everybody got to know one another quite well. Most of our classes were together and no other students on the university we attended had the identical schedule as ours as nursing students! After graduating, I stayed within the Philadelphia area and Myrna worked in New York, so we were separated for a couple of years. There was no social media on the time and we were each very busy starting our careers, so our contact was quite limited.

Fast forward to 1995/1996 and Myrna moved to Philadelphia, taking a job at the identical hospital where I worked. She was within the Surgical ICU and I used to be within the Medical ICU, so our paths crossed at times at work, however it was our time together that actually stuck with me. We were single, living in town, meeting for dinner and spending time together. We each went back to highschool, and although she focused on management and mine, women’s health, we still managed to take a few of the required classes together – research and statistics. You definitely need a superb friend during these graduate level courses – I used to be very grateful to Myrna!

After graduating, over the subsequent few years we each settled down, got married, and began families. I left the bedside and began working as a clinical editor. Myrna moved to Texas and later to Colorado, where she also explored other non-clinical opportunities – in pharmaceutical research and later in medical simulation.

Myrna got here to Philadelphia a couple of years afterward a business trip and we spent a while together and she or he explained her work within the simulation – I used to be very impressed. After some time she said to me: “

Fast forward to 2012, once I attended a conference in Colorado. “It’s been so long since we saw one another! So we made a rapid visit, and a couple of years later our team at NursingCenter was in search of one other clinical editor to affix our team. I knew who to call.