Keep the good times rolling...
So it has been three weeks since I started working in my new role in the Paeds Ortho clinic and I am slowly getting back into the routines of booking pre-ops, doing phone interviews and trying to keep my designated Ortho surgeon on track with his patients, their calls and follow-ups, and tests. I really like the surgeon I am assigned to, but he has a bad habit of just going to the first clinic nurse he sees and asks them for help. It kind of bothered me, and I thought maybe he didn't want me as his assigned RN. I talked to one of the other nurses there and she said not to take it personally, it was just something he was used to doing. So that is fine, but I don't like that he is putting work for me onto the other nurses, who have their own surgeons to follow. They can be busy enough without his add-ons. It is also proving difficult to get him to sit still for two minutes to review messages and notes, so I feel like I am intruding on his time. Here's hoping he and I will get ourselves in sync soon.
On another front I took in a new foster dog tonight. This little guy is the first one I've cared for that came from a really bad home situation - abuse and most likely a puppy mill set up. He is very shut down, yelps and snaps/soft bites if he is touched and just flattens to the ground when he is overwhelmed by the attention - or in this case, my four obnoxious dogs who bark their heads off if he even moves. He hasn't moved far; I had him on lead up to the kitchen but when he wouldn't let me take his lead off he went back down to the foyer. I want to give him some space, but with the other dogs dashing over to bark at him every three minutes I keep entering his safe zone. The last time, though, he did give my hand a decent sniffing, but would not follow me back up to the main level.
Nothing else new going on... I was invited to be on the Nova Scotia Federation of Labour float for this Saturday's Pride Parade, but if the new dog is still in avoidance mode I may skip it in order to watch over him. I am going to re-name him too. His current name is awful and completely unimaginative (and he's a Chihuahua, so his name is also kinda racist). Maybe with being called a new name he will dissociate from the bad experiences.
And how are y'all today?
On another front I took in a new foster dog tonight. This little guy is the first one I've cared for that came from a really bad home situation - abuse and most likely a puppy mill set up. He is very shut down, yelps and snaps/soft bites if he is touched and just flattens to the ground when he is overwhelmed by the attention - or in this case, my four obnoxious dogs who bark their heads off if he even moves. He hasn't moved far; I had him on lead up to the kitchen but when he wouldn't let me take his lead off he went back down to the foyer. I want to give him some space, but with the other dogs dashing over to bark at him every three minutes I keep entering his safe zone. The last time, though, he did give my hand a decent sniffing, but would not follow me back up to the main level.
Nothing else new going on... I was invited to be on the Nova Scotia Federation of Labour float for this Saturday's Pride Parade, but if the new dog is still in avoidance mode I may skip it in order to watch over him. I am going to re-name him too. His current name is awful and completely unimaginative (and he's a Chihuahua, so his name is also kinda racist). Maybe with being called a new name he will dissociate from the bad experiences.
And how are y'all today?