My current place of employment has been going through some negative changes lately. Don’t get me wrong, I feel blessed to have a job at all. However, the hospital is seeking Magnet status, and while this sounds nice in theory, in reality, it means that each week the hospital adds five more minutes of charting [...]
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Should I stay or should I go?
Posted in Motherhood, work on October 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Torn
Posted in Motherhood, work on October 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My son is sitting between my feet on the floor, waving his red plastic telephone around, chewing on it, squealing to himself, and slamming it into his sister’s toys which are scattered on the carpet.
I feel pulled in about seven different directions at this point in my life.
Right now, I work on a unit that [...]
On working
Posted in Motherhood, breastfeeding, budget, tired, work on October 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
First swine flu (oh sorry, H1N1) patient last night. And already I’m convinced that I have it. Guess I will know for sure within 1-5 days (incubation period) whether or not the body aches and headache are just the typical I-worked-13-hours-yesterday-with-only-one-break feelings.
Also, what is up with all my coworkers trying to guilt me into working [...]
Last night shift
Posted in work on September 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Worked overnight for twelve hours last night, but the good news is I am not signed up for any more night shifts for the next six weeks. My main competition for the day shift slots went and got herself a fulltime job somewhere else, so now I am in the lucky position of having my [...]
A Good Day
Posted in Motherhood, family, work on August 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today it is pouring down rain, and thundering, with the lights blinking off and on now and then. Thank goodness this laptop runs for a while on battery power. Eli is asleep in his crib, for his second nap of the day even though it’s only noon. …Scratch that, awake again already.
Yesterday was one of [...]
How bizarre
Posted in work on August 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A patient on our unit recently was misdiagnosed. The ER doc had him tentatively diagnosed as having MRSA, a drug-resistant bacterial infection which is now so common that we see several cases a month, even in my tiny hospital unit.
Guess what he really had? It was a once-common, now only rarely seen childhood disease. CHICKEN [...]
Career thoughts
Posted in work on June 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
So yeah, I admit it. Going through childbirth and having a baby around again has completely revitalized my interest in becoming a labor and delivery and/or postpartum nurse. That is the reason I “sold out” and went to nursing school, after all, before getting sidetracked into NICU and Peds. Witnessing the Scariest Birth Ever as [...]
I like this
Posted in Motherhood, marriage, work on June 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“…a pitcher longs for water to carry and a person for work that is real.”
From Marge Piercy’s poem, “To Be of Use”
Man Fit
Posted in work on February 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Last night, I dreamt that the road to our old town had been turned into elevated train tracks, except that the road workers forgot to put up a sign informing anyone of this fact. So I was stranded on a metal bar high above a cornfield, holding my car in my hand (yeah, it was [...]
Night shift, again
Posted in budget, work on February 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I worked overnight Friday night, and the unit was packed, as it always is in late winter. This was my first time having four patients since I stopped working in the stepdown nursery at City Hospital. And four patients who are there for respiratory problems is very different than four growing premies who do not [...]
