JC Lema, R.N.
by : Jan Chester Lema, R.N.
After four long years of hardship and endurance, I’m glad I succeeded.
I still remember the time when I was about to go to college. I really didn’t have any idea as to what course to take. I just took my entrance exam at CEU, and passed it. With no sense of direction or any plans for my future whatsoever, I chose nursing as my course.
When I reached my second year, however, all that changed. Little by little, I began to feel the toxicity of this career I had chosen. Interestingly enough, it was also during that time that I started to enjoy my course as well. With each passing day I learned to love my chosen field, especially when I began learning how to do basic nursing stuff like taking a patient’s blood pressure, conducting physical assessments and the like.
When I reached my 3rd- and 4th year levels, you can just imagine all the stress I experienced during that time: having to beat the deadlines of submission for various reports and projects at the last minute, “toxic” quizzes, practical demonstrations and oral revalidas, community immersions, endless hospital duties, completions of cases, research drafts and analyses of theses, sleepless weeks and many, many more.
Until, one day… I graduated.
I felt good seeing my name among the lists of graduates, marching up on stage wearing my toga, and rejoicing in all the hardships I had endured, now all behind me. Truly it is a feeling that I would never forget.
But that was not the end of it. Graduating med school is one thing; passing the boards is a different story altogether.
It takes months of preparation to get ready for the board exams. And not just mere “preparation”, mind you, I mean giving everything for it. I remember those times when I was preparing for the board; I intentionally isolated myself from my family and friends just so I could really focus on reviewing everything I had learned from college. I even enrolled myself in a review center and spent most of my time studying there. Do you know how hard it is to see your friends spending time together and having fun all summer, when, all the while, I was just in the corner of my room, reading, preparing, sacrificing for this board exam? Oh, how I hated that feeling! It almost came to a point where I was about to lose hope and surrender…but, instead, I prayed.
God was always there for me. During that desperate time, I sought God to give me strength and endurance to face this trial. I really want to thank Him now for being there for me during those times. Just like what the Scripture says, “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” He really proved Himself true.
Then the glorious day came. I took the board exam and gave it everything I had. And God granted me the favor to pass. I am truly grateful.
I want to take this opportunity to thank everyone who supported, prayed and helped me during my preparations for the board exams. Truly you’ve been a blessing to my life and I pray that God would bless you all as well.
Now that I’ve already passed, earned those “R.N.” initials at the end of my name, and soon, to be getting my license, what’s in store for my future, I wonder? Well, I’ll just leave this passage, which has been my life verse, to you guys.
“For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” ~ Jeremiah 29:11
You don’t need to worry. God will put you where he wants you to be.
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