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This really is a special time and something you’ll only ever do once!  The days leading up to your graduation are an excellent time to meet up with class mates, go for coffee and discuss how far you’ve come, what you’ve achieved and what your plans for the future involve.  It may be that you are moving away from home to be a travel nurse and so you’re faced with one of the last opportunities with your class mates for a while to come.  Should this be the case, graduation week is the time to be making plans for visits!  Perhaps there’s a group of you who’ll be working in the same hospital; in this case, discuss the possibility of living together – after graduation you’ll be so busy with your new job you’ll find it near impossible to look for accommodation.  Most importantly, this is the last time you’ll have to discuss problems with your teaching nurses.  Have any doubts about your future career?  They can advise you having had lots of experience with recent graduates.  They could also refer you to a good career education advisor should you still not know what to do with your nursing degree.  Being the last week, don’t forget to take the opportunity to thank your teacher for everything you have learnt and the opportunities the nursing qualification has given you.  A great time to do this, if you are far too busy with other graduation activities, would be on Teacher Appreciation Day 2008.  This is a day on which the whole of your nursing class could reunite, to meet the teacher and discuss how your new nursing placements are going and how you have put your teacher’s wisdom to good use.  He or she will really be grateful for the feedback and it could serve to mould the next group of nursing students who’d benefit from your experience.

On the day of the nursing school graduation itself, remember to take lots of photos, you’ll relish the memories when you’re older!  What’s more is to enjoy yourself and have some quiet time to reflect on your education and to plan your future; after all the stress of nursing final exams, this is an ideal time to clear your mind and focus on what’s really important.

Your graduation is a special day, not just because it is the end of your nursing school education but because it’s the start of your nursing career!