Hi! My name is Sarah Smallwood and I live in Lawrence, Kansas, with my beautiful family (husband – Micah and daughter – Paige) and our 2 little fur babies (Penny Lane and daisy Mae). I am a travel nurse and I specialize in ER. I have done some psych and charge nursing as well. I do a lot of research in every area I work in on a regular basis. If I have an order for a test that I am not used to, then I research to see why we are doing it and what it will tell us. I especially love to research new diagnosis and treatments. I think all nurses look up meds and dosing information. I use those resources everyday. My favorite site, right now, is UpToDate, just because you can get the newest information and it covers everything on the topic. Sometimes, you can just peruse the site to find new, cool information that you were unaware of before. It is important for us to stay “up to date” on the newest information in our field. Learning is a passion of mine and if I could get paid to go to school, I totally would!!!

Before nursing I had many jobs in the medical field. I was an EMT, a tech, a phlebotomist and a CNA. I am very fortunate to have the opportunity to work from the bottom up and am even more fortunate to be able to continue on to NP school this next summer. My goal is to be accepted at either KU or Vanderbilt and start by summer 2019. After graduation, we are planning on finding a place to settle down on an island. We have not quite decided where but we are hoping somewhere in Jamaica or Puerto Rico. We travel a lot and love to explore new places.

I apologize for the late post. I was out of the country for a few weeks but I am back, now and am going to be fully involved!!!