Sunday, November 15, 2009

Exciting News!

Ok, before I talk about my exciting news, updates on my workouts. Got busy, and couldn't make it to the gym as much as I wanted to this week, but what can I do? Life tends to get in the way. Still doing my fun elliptical work, here were my times

Monday: 24 minutes: 1.80 miles
Saturday: 25:55 Minutes: 2 miles
Sunday: 30 minutes: 2.17 miles, 100 sit ups, bench press, 45# x 10, 55# x10, 60#x10, 65# x6

Ok, so now for the fun stuff. So, every semester, TWU puts on a conference, and J1's can submit an abstract and get a chance to present at this conference. Well, my friend and I submitted an abstract and we got picked! 20 abstracts were submitted and only 5 are chosen. We are super thrilled! We are just excited about the perks of this! We get 5 free questions on both our Assessment and Concepts final, $25 gift card, some nursing handbook, and dinner with our instructors! Oh, and we don't have to participate in a different speaking assignment. Which both of our topics sucked balls and we didn't want to do them!

So, what is our topic? The topic is about pediatric hospices. I had the opportunity to visit one in Australia and it was one of the only things I remember from the medical aspect of the trip. This center touched me in a way that I can't even explain. So, yeah, I am really excited to be presenting on this topic. Interestingly enough, the idea hasn't taken off in the States. There isn't even one in Texas, and we are a HUGE state!

My presentation is on December 1. Which leaves me plenty of time to prepare and get over my fear of public speaking!

8 comments:

  1. Nice, Amy! That's exciting! Let me know if you need an audience to do a test run on..maybe we could couple it with a quick workout :)

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  2. Congrats, Amy! That's so wonderful. :) And good for you for keeping up with blogging. I have been so lax about it. :( I'll try to be better come winter because I'll have a nice long break from grad school. We'll see...anyway, I'm proud of you for your accomplishment!

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  3. Thanks guys! Oh, I will need practice! I am so scared of public speaking!

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  4. I totally understand..I was always terrified of it too..but practiced a lot at work. It's all about confidence. I know you'll do awesome. Seriously let me know if you want to meet up one evening and run through it!

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  5. Thanks! I will take you up on that! Maybe get ice cream or something horrible for us afterwards! :)

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  6. How did your presentation go Amy? I'm sure you did awesome!

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