My Life in Lynchburg: Nursing Convention

SWAAAGGG! Stuff We All Get! (Michael Scott)

Last weekent a few Virginia Nursing Schools gathered in Virginia Beach for a Nursing Student Conference at the Founder's Inn resort and Spa! A bunch of us from Liberty went along and had a great time!

We were able to meet representatives from different Virginia health systems. There were also different "Breakout Sessions" where we could learn about different fields of nursing. I went to the ER, Operating Room, and Pediatric Sessions, as well as a Fluid and Electrolyte review session - because fluids and electrolytes, apart from being hard to understand and remember, are very important for your NCLEX test. But what we all really enjoyed was getting FREE STUFF! Pens, highlighters, pen lights, frisbees, tee-shirts...

For lunch we enjoyed catered fish, salad, veggies, and iced tea. It was delicious. It looked like a wedding.

Liberty won a few prizes for our community work and our school spirit! These girls are our Liberty Student Nursing Association leaders.

Of corse, it seems that wherever we go, there is some sort of adventure in store. It never fails. This weekend we had a rough first night and ended up switching hotels. Let's start from the very beginning, a very good place to start. When you read you begin with?

Okay, that was for Matt.

We arrived our first night (Friday) and checked into our beachside (across the street from the beach) hotel. Of corse, online, it looked decent enough. There were pictures of a chandelier (which was overtop the clerks desk), a grand staircase (which led to... the ceiling), and a nice, safe-looking parking lot (kind of an alley way). Our first room smelled like cigarettes, so we went back to the office and requested the room we ordered, a non-smoking room. We were "up-graded" to a room with a stove! Yay! The front desk guy told us we could invite him up for dinner. EEEK! So we ran away, back upstairs, and moved one room to the left. We were greeted by mold and bugs. We thought we'd just stick it out, "it's no worse that what I had to deal with in Guatemala".

We decided to go check out where the convention would be the following morning. MapQuest told me it was half a mile away, but 20 minutes later, we were still driving down the highway. After seeing the Convention's beautiful Resort and Spa location, we headed back to, what my friend Lindsay lovingly called, "the place that looks like a CSI investigation site". We were soon smashing more bugs that were crawling out of their cozy little home from inside our clock. "Okay, time to get out of here"

We got a refund and moved across the street to the Best Western, Oceanfront. Hotels.com is very sorry for any inconvienence.

Here's the view outside of our room.

We really had a great time the next day (Saturday) at the Conference. We learned a lot and enjoyed not doing any work. A few of us stayed an extra night to enjoy the beach even though it was 30-some degrees!