Yes, I am still out there. I am happy to report that the semester is over and I am now a graduate of the Edgewood College School of Nursing! The ceremony was last Sunday, and I now have a beautiful black diploma cover. The diploma will be coming sometime in the spring after the registrar's office verifies all of our grades and graduation requirements, etc. Something to look forward to.

Officially we graduate on January 10th, and I will take my nursing boards sometime after that. In the mean time I will start working as a graduate nurse in the ICU at Meriter Hospital on January 12th. Something else to look forward to.

I will miss Edgewood, but will still have some contact there, at least for the short term. I hope to be able to go back and speak to next year's group of Guatemala students, and I am meeting with Chris Bell to talk about some ideas for projects for next summer's trip next week, plus a couple of other things may be brewing. Who knows what will come up next. Stay tuned.

I am going to try to keep up a little better with the posts than I have in the recent past. Maybe I can post some of the info I have gathered about global health, water, sanitation, hygiene, or I can fill in some of the things I did this past semester in clinicals. If anyone is still out there, let me know if any of these things might interest you. I still have Guatemala on my mind, but this can now really be a much broader blog. After all, the title does say Nathan in Nursing, and I am one big step closer to being a nurse now.