Seemingly neverending
The state showed up again recently. We didn't know why. It kind of threw us all in a panic, but fortunately they never showed up on the unit. The likely scenario was that it was a follow up visit from their previously unannounced visit. I'm sure we'll hear about the outcome of such visit soon. Last week I found myself in the throes of a bit of an icy mishap; I slid my car off the road on the way to work. Ended up not needing to be there, but one bent tire rim, a tow and a Lyft home and turns out my car is a-ok now! That by far was one of the scariest situations I ever found myself in. Give me a rapid response or a code green any day! Haven't really been on my unit lately....census went down so they've been running with one less nurse than usual. I'm learning about being in a union still, and that's been interesting. Apparently I wasn't supposed to be floated this entire time. Even though I have the lowest seniority (ahem, try NO seniority), I'm the first to be floated but it should go on a rotating basis, because as I was told, "you have the right to work on your unit." Um...well, yeah, I would certainly hope so. If I wanted to be a float nurse, I would have signed up to be a float nurse. Oh yeah...about that.
So with the union stuff there was the option to sign up for 12 hour shifts. They have also added float positions too. Literally EVERYONE has been asking me "oh, Kelly, why don't you do it?" Because I'd always be on the kids unit. And I really don't want to do 12's right now. Maybe in a few year's time I'll go back to them, but for now I'm fine right where I am. On top of all of this I started my new per diem job recently. It's been...a nice change of pace. And thankfully, a lot of the job I already know, in terms of meds, procedures, that sort of thing. What I told my nurse trainer is that I just need to know the ins and outs, the routines of the day to day and what to do when the crap hits the fan. And so far the crap hasn't hit the fan, with the exception of the OD during my orientation and a few hits of Narcan. Yeah....something you don't necessarily see every day on your first day of a new job.
I think I'm really going to like this new thing. I was talking to someone at church last weekend and she's finding herself in a job that she feels that God is showing her to get out of. I think that's what it was like at the nursing home for me. I kept seeing the signs but, for whatever reason I ignored them. I gave it 6 months, as I promised myself I would. Does it make me a quitter? Yeah I guess so. But I'd rather get out of something now than find myself becoming so invested that getting out is too difficult. I told myself I'd never do that. I refuse to become one of those nurses. I've worked with them before. I've seen them before. If they can't pick at the job they'll find something (or someone) else to pick at. And it seemed like a lot of the times it was me, because I went against the norms of how to act, how to think, how to move forward. I realized it's not me who is the problem. But I guess that's just how the world works sometimes.
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 1 John 2:15
So with the union stuff there was the option to sign up for 12 hour shifts. They have also added float positions too. Literally EVERYONE has been asking me "oh, Kelly, why don't you do it?" Because I'd always be on the kids unit. And I really don't want to do 12's right now. Maybe in a few year's time I'll go back to them, but for now I'm fine right where I am. On top of all of this I started my new per diem job recently. It's been...a nice change of pace. And thankfully, a lot of the job I already know, in terms of meds, procedures, that sort of thing. What I told my nurse trainer is that I just need to know the ins and outs, the routines of the day to day and what to do when the crap hits the fan. And so far the crap hasn't hit the fan, with the exception of the OD during my orientation and a few hits of Narcan. Yeah....something you don't necessarily see every day on your first day of a new job.
I think I'm really going to like this new thing. I was talking to someone at church last weekend and she's finding herself in a job that she feels that God is showing her to get out of. I think that's what it was like at the nursing home for me. I kept seeing the signs but, for whatever reason I ignored them. I gave it 6 months, as I promised myself I would. Does it make me a quitter? Yeah I guess so. But I'd rather get out of something now than find myself becoming so invested that getting out is too difficult. I told myself I'd never do that. I refuse to become one of those nurses. I've worked with them before. I've seen them before. If they can't pick at the job they'll find something (or someone) else to pick at. And it seemed like a lot of the times it was me, because I went against the norms of how to act, how to think, how to move forward. I realized it's not me who is the problem. But I guess that's just how the world works sometimes.
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 1 John 2:15
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