Prompted post 5: Nursing Student Association

Here at Michigan State University there is an organization called the Nursing Student Association. This club can be extremely helpful to nursing students at the university. It is actually required to be a member of this club once you are excepted into the nursing school here.  This club has monthly meetings and i attended the one on February 18th this month.

I did not end up joining the club at the end of the meeting only because it costs 10 dollars to become a legit member and i did not have any money on me at the time. But it is basically just a meeting for all the nursing students where they go over different things about the medical field. They touch on subjects regarding procedures and most importantly different opportunities for students to volunteer at different hospitals. This is a really great way for nursing students to get experience in their field and also to get some volunteer hours for their nursing applications. They also had a guest speaker come in and explain a little about what he does on an average day at work. This is also interesting because it brings in someone who has real world experience to explain what actually goes down to those who have never worked in a hospital setting. I had my internship before so I knew some of the stuff that they were talking about but I also learned some things about being a nurse practitioner as well. This isn't the field of nursing that I am trying to join but i thought it was interesting listening to a professional talk about his career.

The main purpose of this student organization is to get nursing students volunteer hours and to help pre-nursing students with applications. They also put on different community service opportunities that are not necessarily related to nursing such as events at nursing homes and things of that nature. I enjoyed the experience because it also gave me a chance to see what kind of people are in the nursing program and also to meet other people with the same major as me. Its always really nice to meet people that have a lot of the same classes as you so you are able to study with people and learn the material better. It also kind of scared me because there were a lot of people there and all the pre-nursing students are in competition with each other so that was a little nerve wrecking. Other than that I thought it was beneficial to attend the meetings and i will definitely join this club not only because it is required but also because they provide a lot of great opportunities for working in a hospital.  I also found that it represented the truth of the nursing field very well by supplying those real world experiences and also providing so many opportunities to get real time experience. The NSA is a really awesome club here at Michigan State and if you are a medical student at all I would recommend looking into it.