again
Lately I've been dying to move on to another part of nursing... my unit is just not cutting it anymore. I'm getting sick of medicine patients; the needy CP ROMIs; the occasional vascular and orthopedic surgery patients we get because they convert to afib (i hatehathate dealing with those services because the interns are crap! Must be a surgery thing. One of my patients was in CHF as per a chest xray and no one wanted to d/c the 150 ml/hr fluids!??!?! They were even fighting with cardiology wut). I do like the occasional palliative care patients but as everyone on our unit says wtf are they doing on tele? My main pet peeve is the 4389057234 year old demented patients with a diagnosis of "weakness". I don't think tele should be necessary unless their electrolytes are effed up or something! What are you even looking for? Half the time they just need to be fed and hydrated. DAAANG. Due to lawsuits practitioners are WAY too careful, that's the reason healthcare costs so much! Lame.
So what's my next move? Home care? Maybe but I can't wrap my head around the idea of even more paperwork than i already have now. There's an opening on another unit I'm shooting for.... just to make a change. This unit is also tele but it's mainly for post open hearts. It's also surgery but the difference is that our cardiothoracic service rules. So let's see. I have an interview soon, hopefully I can get it! If not it's back to the drawing board.
Ah, more news... Matthew moved in and we are occupying the whole third floor of my parents house. Of course we're not exactly on our own yet but it's a start to living together. Already it's much easier! The plus side is I get to hang out with my fam. Hopefully if I move to day shift I can make that even more of a possibility.
Also concerning us... we set the date for our wedding and put a deposit on a place. :) Finally it's one thing off our chests... but we've done nothing since then, and that was a month ago that we reserved the place. Woops. Well, there are 10 months to go so I think we will make it on time.
So what's my next move? Home care? Maybe but I can't wrap my head around the idea of even more paperwork than i already have now. There's an opening on another unit I'm shooting for.... just to make a change. This unit is also tele but it's mainly for post open hearts. It's also surgery but the difference is that our cardiothoracic service rules. So let's see. I have an interview soon, hopefully I can get it! If not it's back to the drawing board.
Ah, more news... Matthew moved in and we are occupying the whole third floor of my parents house. Of course we're not exactly on our own yet but it's a start to living together. Already it's much easier! The plus side is I get to hang out with my fam. Hopefully if I move to day shift I can make that even more of a possibility.
Also concerning us... we set the date for our wedding and put a deposit on a place. :) Finally it's one thing off our chests... but we've done nothing since then, and that was a month ago that we reserved the place. Woops. Well, there are 10 months to go so I think we will make it on time.