Can't wait for March
I'm getting tired of the winter, even though it's been relatively mild. I hate doing my job in February: I'm cranky, I lack compassion and I'm miserable at the hospital all the time. I think I'll pretty much be saying that every year.
I finally took the plunge and requested to be trained in the Coronary Care Unit (CCU), which basically comes down to intensive care specifically for cardiology cases. I thought it was what I always wanted to do. Now that I'm doing it I've basically told myself that I'll give it six months to really get a feel for the work. Mostly I think it's my stressness blocking me. Although I've been relatively calm outwardly during my orientation (which is coming to an end this week), I've got a lot of nerves brewing under the surface saving up for when I've got to perform on my own. I'm very proud, I hate the learning curve and I hate making mistakes. If I can just make it to march 1st while maintaining compassion with my patients and an intelligent standard of nursing, spring will make everything okay again.
Of course I still haven't abandoned the idea of walking out on cardiology altogether and going to perinatal care.
I also want to say a special goodbye and hugs to patchadamsrn and of course his husband. They'll be leaving for the states soon. Patch, I hold your practice before me as one of my standards of nursing care. I'll miss you professionally because the floor won't be the same without you and I'll miss having such a wonderful friend close by. Blue and I will definitely miss you and boston_berry. Now I have a really good excuse to visit Salem though, so not all lost.
If you have two minutes, please do the Johari. As you take the two minutes please don't select attributes that might be nice to hear about oneself but attributes that honestly make you think: "oh yeah, that's crankybear alright".
http://kevan.org/johari?name=crankybear
I finally took the plunge and requested to be trained in the Coronary Care Unit (CCU), which basically comes down to intensive care specifically for cardiology cases. I thought it was what I always wanted to do. Now that I'm doing it I've basically told myself that I'll give it six months to really get a feel for the work. Mostly I think it's my stressness blocking me. Although I've been relatively calm outwardly during my orientation (which is coming to an end this week), I've got a lot of nerves brewing under the surface saving up for when I've got to perform on my own. I'm very proud, I hate the learning curve and I hate making mistakes. If I can just make it to march 1st while maintaining compassion with my patients and an intelligent standard of nursing, spring will make everything okay again.
Of course I still haven't abandoned the idea of walking out on cardiology altogether and going to perinatal care.
I also want to say a special goodbye and hugs to patchadamsrn and of course his husband. They'll be leaving for the states soon. Patch, I hold your practice before me as one of my standards of nursing care. I'll miss you professionally because the floor won't be the same without you and I'll miss having such a wonderful friend close by. Blue and I will definitely miss you and boston_berry. Now I have a really good excuse to visit Salem though, so not all lost.
If you have two minutes, please do the Johari. As you take the two minutes please don't select attributes that might be nice to hear about oneself but attributes that honestly make you think: "oh yeah, that's crankybear alright".
http://kevan.org/johari?name=crankybear