My Week @ Work

As you have noticed  by my lack of blogging that  I am back in my work mode. After two more days of hospital orientation (which totaled 7), I finally spent two days on my unit.

My brain is officially on overload. There is so much to learn! I got to help circulate three c sections this week. One of them was twins. Very exciting! The only thing that was distracting was that my role was to help with surgery and not to look at the baby. Hard, right?

Yesterday was my first 12 hour shift. Not very fun but I think I'll get used to it. However the drive home was hard. But Joe had Olive Garden waiting for me and then I went to bed at 9! Ha!

Now I have 5 days off in a row! But then I work 6, 12 shifts in 7 days..fun! Not.


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My New Job

I started my new job on Monday. Everyone keeps asking me "How's your job going?!" Well I have been sitting through hospital orientation. I learned all about the history, values, mission, diversity. And while I do enjoy learning about this. This has been no indication of how my job is going to be. I have yet to be at the hospital I will be working at.

I do enjoy that the health system is faith based, which is obviously important to me. They value education and will do tuition reimbursement if you go back to school. And they have adoption help.

The dogs I think were spoiled with me being home so much and now don't know what to do with themselves. But I do enjoy the big greetings I get again.

I also learned that a month off really messes with your sleep schedules! I am pooped when I get home! Monday night, I fell asleep on the couch at 7 and then woke up at 8. Not good for trying to get to bed early. And I haven't got to the hard stuff yet! Oh the fun of starting new jobs!




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Looking for a New Job

I hate looking for jobs. So not fun (I even said that in a phone interview this week). I have found that I am pretty picky about the areas I want to work as a nurse.

 

Honestly, going through school I completed my most of my clinicals because I had to. But the only clinicals that I actually enjoyed were Peds and Labor and Delivery. The first time I got to help in a delivery brought tears to my eyes and I LOVED it. Those were the clinicals I didn't mind getting up in the morning. Other students in our class loved surgery or ICU. So not my thing.

 

So when we moved to Virginia, I first just started applying to L & D or peds jobs...didn't hear anything. I thought I guess I will have to expand my search and applied for some surgery positions...no luck. I finally broke down and applied for Med/Surg nights!

 

Then I decided I just wasn't going to work as a nurse anymore...this isn't fun. I went through this same thing after the job I was supposed to start right after we got married didn't work out because the hospital flooded. Then I found my job at Columbus Peds and really loved it. I loved my coworkers, the normal schedule, and seeing kids.

 

But today I set up an interview next week for Labor and Delivery. I am so excited! I told myself that after next week I would have a job and I really pray that God will provide! He has gotten us this far, He won't leave us yet!

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My License

Sorry I have been absent for a few days. But I wanted to show what I got in the mail on Monday!













Here is my license to prove that I am a Registered Nurse. I need to get a frame and hang it up! I already knew that I passed my boards but it was very excited to have this!

Did you get anything exciting this week?



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Registered Nurse

I am officially and legally a Registered Nurse. I took my boards yesterday, hence the overwhelming feeling I felt yesterday in my post. I was a WRECK because Joe was gone and I thought I had bombed it but I looked today on the Indiana Professional Licensing Agency website and searched and there I was with a license number! So happy and relieved. I looked when I was at work today and I nearly cried! And then they got my an ice cream cake for congratulations. The people there are so great!

I just wanted to share my news with you! And Joe is coming home tonight! Whoo-hoo!!



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