January- PASSED NCLEXX OMGEREGERDERSDFERESRED~
February- Began jobhunting and writing KIZAWESOME,LPN ( and reading every medical journal I could)
March- FINALLY GOT AN INTERVIEWS ! One of these interviews would lead to a job! =) ALSO made my first state roadtrip by myself with friends. it was pretty exciting =)
April- On orientation for a complete month. Learn how to work all 3 shifts- find that I ABSOLUTELY HATE 2 shifts and only truly love one shift ( aka Nights.)
May- Start going back to college!
June- Mah Birthday!
July- Travel to Pa & to the beach with grammy, it was fun! =)
August- Attend employee banquet thing and win a door prize!
September- Go to Lburg and see into the woods with Niki =)
Octobre= halloween and after halloween shopping with friends!
Novembre- work on thanksgiving- but get a killer paycheck ( also become "officially" part-time.even though I work full time hours....whatevs.)
Decembre- BESTIE TRIP 2012 to DISNEY!! LOVED IT! Met the cake boss, reconnected with old friends...it's been a beautiful year. =)
What being a nurse has taught me in 6 months
- I have had to stay over to work once and it was when I was only off of orientation a week. NURSES EAT THIER YOUNG, SPIT THEM OUT AND THEN STOMP ON THE REMAINS!. Harsh I know. But ugh the morning I had. Here it is : I worked from 5 pm-10:15 pm that night at michaels. I had also worked at the nursing home AND michaels the day/night before. I was running on 4 hrs of sleep . I did not know half of the residents, how they like their medicine etc. I had one resident who had LAWYERS coming ( and that lady also precided to fall. TWICE.) I had a #$@#$@# replacement nurse come at 11 am HOWEVER was nowhere to be found in the building until 12:45 pm. At that rate I should have just stayed. I was tired, overwhelmed, told the other day shift nurse to leave me the @#$@#$#@$ alone after bugging me over and over if I gave so and so med or so and so med. I had an IV to do that I couldn't get to stop staying occlusion. I couldn't figure out the drug dosage right and whne I asked for help the day shift nurse said : are you sure ? like 10 times. I said yes I think, I am not sure. so when we put it in the IV pump they distributed the med in half the time it was supposed to be and I had to do a med error report. I wrote to my DON and told them about the other nurse and they simply stated : it was your resident, not theirs. UGH. I also tried to call my DON and tell her I had to be at my other job at 4 and explained how I had 4 hours sleep etc etc and she simply stated :" If you leave it will be resident abandoment and you will lose your license." Anyway I was ready to quit I absolutely HATED my job and everything involved with it, and then I decided I better wait until I have 6 months in. My replacement nurse was a total jerk. She wanted me to get lal these treatments and crap done when HELLO she is the official TREATMENT NURSE! I hate small towns and I hate small town drama, that is even at a nursing home. That is why I work at night. No one sees me, I don't see them and I enjoy all my co-workers.
- Nursing can bring on depression. I don't know why but some nights when I go into work it is a GREAT chore to motivate myself to go. Some days I feel like all I am is popping pills and writing in charts. Sometimes I have 15 freaking skilled notes to write. And other times I enjoy what I do in my life.
- Being in a Long Term Care setting has allowed me to learn multiple things 1) I am a CHARGE NURSE and that will look good on resumes 2) I am a treatment, wound,medication,floor,emergency,dietitian and intervention nurse. 3) I am a Peg tube BOSS. No one primes the tubing like me and I rarely have an issue with my PEGS. 4) Sometimes a resident will have a bad dream, all they want is for you to talk to them to tell them it will all be ok. 5) You will make mistatkes and get overwhelmed. But that is ok you are only human.
- Whoever says they have never made a medication error LIES. You will make a med error, but you will also live through it ( and deal with the reprocussions whatever they may be. For moi it was a write-up and having to read a handout ( over giving out TYLENOL. pssh whatever.)
- The most humbling experiances I have had involved no more than 5 minutes of my life. I shall share the top 3 ) One resident had a bad dream and was SCREAMING out loud, she wrote a note for the CNA to give to me it said : " I would like to see my nurse, I have had a bad dream, I am very frightended." I went into her room and just talked to her for 15 minutes, she was then ok. I gave her a hug and went on with the rest of my night. The second time was when I had a residnet who I give 0600 morning meds to wake up and give me a hug saying how much she missed me while I was on vacation- the amazing thing is she has alzheimers but she remembered I went to Florida and that I was gone for 2 weeks ( it was really only one, but thats pretty good.) I could go on and on about my residents. Like last night my resident was scared and wanted to be with me, she hugged me and was crying because she was scared- and all she wanted was to be near me. She stayed with me at the nurses station until 0200 when she finally decided it was sleepy time. =) My last instance is when I had a resident who was in the hospital for 2 weeks. I have to check his heart rate every shift and what not and when I was assisting him with some meds and breathing treatments and things he caught me off guard ( and my eyes were watering from the MASSIVE amounts of flowers in his room.) He thought I was crying for him and thne he started crying saying : you can tell that you have alot of experiance as a nurse because you still have the heart of compassion, not like these young ones now adays. Oh if he only knew I haven't even been a nurse for a year yet....
- I have learned that nurisng is really hard, and that when things happen it gets even harder. I have also learned that I enjoy what I do and cannot wait to see where I end up next. Would love to move to Florida. For real. <3 br="br">
