I received word yesterday about my transition from RT to RN at my facility. I signed my new job description yesterday and received my marching instructions. I will attend hospital orientation Tuesday through Thursday from 0800 to probably 1630 or 1700. Friday I will report to my nursing floor at 0645 for what I’m guessing …
Top Five Things I WILL miss about RT
The downtime. Our busiest hours for patient care are 0700,0900, 1300, 1500 and 1700. (unless you are working ICU’s or ER.) Besides that we have some downtime, unless we get calls. (this is not to say that we don’t have to do anything else but we generally get to eat breakfast and a little break …
Top Five Things I WON’T Miss about RT
As my time as an RT comes to a close (one more shift) I wanted to share some things I won’t miss about being an RT. In no particular order. Inaccurate procedure Counts. In the RT world its all about numbers. According tonnage meant we should be able to do a minimum of 35 procedures …
My first nursing job.
The Job hunt is over. I got my first nursing job today!! I will be working DAY SHIFT Medical oncology at my current hospital. I’m so excited, yet scared out of my mind. I can’t really start until the new pay period which is like the 9th of September so I have a couple more …
Job interview today
I had my job interview today. Yes, that’s right I drove out in the middle of Tropical Storm Issac, and entered the hospital with my dress pants soaked to the knee from the sideways rain. LOL!I was supposed to meet the nurse manager in HR and I guess some signals got crossed somewhere and they …
nursing in the great depression.
I think the profession pays better now but the reasons for going into nursing remain the same as it was during the great depression Nursing during the Great depression
Nature
Have you ever just stopped to watch nature? I love to watch nature. At work we have a family of sucks that year after year they bring new ducklings into The world and it is always a pleasure to watch them tail their mother as she leads them over a hill or across the road. …
Will30
A friend of mine recently started doing a podcast. His podcast examines the world through arts and entertainment. “Will30 will look at our world through arts and entertainment. I have always been of the persuasion that cultures are not best defined and understood by their politics, economics, and sociology; but rather by the art and …
Good Reads: Dancing Barefoot
Dancing Barefoot by Wil Wheaton My rating: 4 of 5 stars These are 5 heart warming, heart breaking and sometimes funny stories from Writer, actor Wil Wheaton. Some are new and some are expansions of what we see in Just a Geek. But all in all a good book. View all my reviews
Interview 2
I have a job interview at 10 am at my current place of employment on Monday. Yay!!