License to Nurse
I recently passed my NCLEX, which, for those of you who don't know, is a big, long, hard test that graduate nurses have to take in order to obtain their nursing license and get a job. When we pass this test, we are also awarded two letters to put behind our name: RN. RN. Registered Nurse. These may just seem like two letters to most people, maybe even an acronym for when you want something "right now" (which, if we're being honest isn't far off from what most people think of our job description.) However, these two letters mean a whole lot more to me and so many other caring people than just "Registered Nurse." See, to me, these two letters hold a lot of weight. They hold the weight of two very hard and challenging years with many books studied, many late nights and early mornings, many cups of coffee, many firsts and exposure to tragedy, death, new life, old people, young people, mentally ill people, and everything in b...