My Bucket List as of 2016

I want to live a long life full of amazing memories. Doing what I love and spending time with the people I care about it is a priority for me. I have learned to truly appreciate the value of life and take in everything it has to offer. There as so many things I desire to experience and accomplish.

My Bucket List 

• Shadow a doctor's surgery
• Get a good grade on my A.P. exams
• Receive scholarships
• Graduate
• Graduation party
• Have an amazing senior summer
• Attend a 4 year university
• Have an internship in college
• Join clubs in college
• Visit my parents in Tahoe and go skiing/snowboarding during college 
• Obtain a master's degree
• Study abroad
• Become a registered nurse
• Help a patient through their medical journey              
• Work in the labor and delivery department as a nurse
• Get married
• Have my wedding ceremony outside in a beautiful setting
• Have a family
• Take off time to raise my children
• Donate to charities
• Hike Mt. Diablo
• Learn how to water ski
• Vacation with my 3 sisters to celebrate my graduation
• Invest in stocks
• Be the best, nurturing mother possible
• Own a house
• Go to Hawaii
• Go to a luau
• Participate in the Color Run
• Help the homeless
• Take in everyday and live it to the fullest
• Have a long, healthy life
• Learn how to surf
• Go to church
• Ride a beach cruiser bike
• Get a promotion
• Four wheeling on the beach
• Experience different cultures and learn about them
• Visit Thailand
• Be active enjoying the activities as long as I can
• Go to a drive in movie
• Feed positive energy
• Love my career
• Retire before 65
• Ride a Jet ski
• Go to another NFL football game
• Buy a new, but used car
• Attend my friend's weddings
• Go fishing on a boat
• Polar plunge
• Become a grandmother
• Live happily ever after

Inspiring the Inspirational words of Hope from Nurses to Nurses

For the past couple of months I have been reading a book called, Inspiring the Inspirational words of Hope from Nurses to Nurses, by Sue Heacock. It is made up of many touching stories from a lot of different nurses. All of the stories are heart felt experiences that nurses have gone through. The experiences are all completely different, but are pulled together with the theme of how nurses effect patient's lives. It is also filled with philosophies about the need for nurses in our world. It has direct quotes from nurses talking about their careers and the events they have encountered. My favorite part of the book was being able to learn of a variety of experiences from so many different people. It is very different from the writing that is usually seen. I feel that it provides an inspiration from multiple people that portrays how great the medical field truly is. It isn't just one person describing how amazing nursing is. That was something that I really loved about the book and found very interesting. I would recommend this book to others because it provides a great insight on the amazing opportunities you will have to help people. It really brought to life the things that I dreamed would happen and showed me that it does happen.

Ted Talks

I recently watched a Ted Talks called Take health care off the mainframe, by Eric Dishman and it was filmed in November of 2009. Eric does health care research for Intel. His argument is that health care needs to be more personal. 10 years from when this was filmed there was a much larger amount of older people than younger people. During this time he wanted perform research for Intel by looking at disruptive technologies for this problem. He called this the Y2K + 10 plan. In the beginning of the video he shows that just how a person answers the phone can show a lot about how cognitive they are. It can be used to simply evaluate a disease such as dementia. He wants research to be done in at least 10,000 homes with the new machines available. One type of machine is the magic carpet which can show a persons postural change over a period of time from them walking on it. In his argument he states that when you search about health care the first things to come up are hospitals, and doctors. He wants it to become more personal and for research to be done in a span of homes. I thought it was interesting that there are so many different machines that can trace such detailed effects on the human body. I agree that we should use these different devices to further the knowledge of why certain problems are occurring. Others who are interested in healing others and the health industry would find this Ted Talks appealing. The resources we have should be utilized to discover more about the reasons behind why different problems take place. I feel that others would agree that we should make the medical field more personal. It is a very interesting talk and discusses how we can further our health care.