Jodi’s Personal Plan for Success
The title on my name badge at work reads: Jodi Enloe RN, CNOR and just underneath that it states that I work in Perioperative Services at Providence Medford Medical Center. I wear that badge five days a week, eight hours per day, and more often than I’d like, late into the nights or early mornings on call-back. I am an OR nurse, and from what I hear from my peers, a pretty decent one as I have been at for going on 13 years now.
My journey to where I am now was definitely not without extreme effort and sacrifice. I would have loved it my story went more like the focused high school student who graduates and immediately goes on to an institution of higher learning, gets her BSN degree after just four years, …show more content…
My husband took a job transfer to Medford and as part of the persuasion to leave my comfortable life behind and relocate, he suggested it was an opportunity for me to finally get my shot at college and get a nursing degree. I settled for the ADN program because it was the fastest route with the least amount of financial burden. Although not as long as the program for BSN, it was extremely challenging for me to return to school after so many years. I had to give up vacations, family time, various social events, and sometimes even meals and sleep in order to make assignment deadlines and study for exams that could end my program immediately should I fail one.
I have no regrets for the education I received. Rogue Community College did a great job training me to be a high performing nurse with great clinical skills. I believe life is about choices, setting goals, and achieving as many as possible. I knew it wasn’t possible to go back to school for a while and bridge over to a BSN, however, it did not stop me from continuing some sort of education. After three years in surgery I studied the necessary materials to test for certification in my specialty. I passed and got the letters CNOR name
The title on my name badge at work reads: Jodi Enloe RN, CNOR and just underneath that it states that I work in Perioperative Services at Providence Medford Medical Center. I wear that badge five days a week, eight hours per day, and more often than I’d like, late into the nights or early mornings on call-back. I am an OR nurse, and from what I hear from my peers, a pretty decent one as I have been at for going on 13 years now.
My journey to where I am now was definitely not without extreme effort and sacrifice. I would have loved it my story went more like the focused high school student who graduates and immediately goes on to an institution of higher learning, gets her BSN degree after just four years, …show more content…
My husband took a job transfer to Medford and as part of the persuasion to leave my comfortable life behind and relocate, he suggested it was an opportunity for me to finally get my shot at college and get a nursing degree. I settled for the ADN program because it was the fastest route with the least amount of financial burden. Although not as long as the program for BSN, it was extremely challenging for me to return to school after so many years. I had to give up vacations, family time, various social events, and sometimes even meals and sleep in order to make assignment deadlines and study for exams that could end my program immediately should I fail one.
I have no regrets for the education I received. Rogue Community College did a great job training me to be a high performing nurse with great clinical skills. I believe life is about choices, setting goals, and achieving as many as possible. I knew it wasn’t possible to go back to school for a while and bridge over to a BSN, however, it did not stop me from continuing some sort of education. After three years in surgery I studied the necessary materials to test for certification in my specialty. I passed and got the letters CNOR name