Congratulations Tara!

I want to tell you about my friend Tara from Moore, OK.  I met Tara about 5years ago while working in the ER at Midwest Regional Medical Center.  Ever since I've known Tara she has been on the path to becoming a nurse.  She worked and studied very hard and stayed with the program even through pregancy and the birth of her son.  Today Tara found out she passed her nursing boards.  So I just have to say:

I'M SO PROUD OF YOU TARA!!!  CONGRATULATIONS ON BECOMING A NURSE!!!

Here is Tara's accounting:

So I went in to take the test (state nursing board test) and it was painful.  It could have anywhere from 85 questions to 205 I think...it stopped me at #125.  I left that place feeling like I had failed.  I had prayed, studied and asked other people to pray for me.  So I suffered all weekend not knowing if all of my work and dedication had paid off.  So at 9am I tried to access my grade to see if I had passed...I called the state board of nursing and they said after 10am I would know.  I logged in again at about 10:15 am and still no conformation.  I finally had enough so I called again and she looked....and she said the most wonderful words a nursing student can hear...You are an official LPN as of 9-11-06.  Some of you may know that on 9-11-01 there were horrible things going on in the world with the twin towers and the terriosm, but that was also the day that I found out that I was kicked out of the paramedic program (after one year of basic and intermediate training) because I had failed ONE test!!!  So it was nice to learn that 5 years later I now am a nurse.  I had promised my grandma Bebe before she died that I would become a nurse...I am here...now I am looking forward to the day Preston starts school because I can go back to school to become an RN.  Look out world...here comes Tara Lewis...LPN!!!

 

Tara Lewis

 

P.S. Thank you to all the people who have supported me and prayed for me and also my wonderful family who without their support I would have failed indefinately!!