Thursday, April 30, 2009
It is time...
Well.. we are only hours away from graduation! It's 2am and I am up worrying about life and how it will be different after today. Where will I end up come August 19th after my internship at SharpTop is over? God, PLEASE direct my ways to be your ways! Since Tuesday of this week my friends and fellow colleagues have been receiving phone calls from Shands with job offers for their "dream jobs". My friend Julie was the first to recieve a job in Shands ER. I had so much excitement for her and was overwhelmed with joy! I couldn't stop shouting in public "JULIE HAS A JOB! JULIE'S AN ER NURSE!!" The two of us got out of the car and ran around Sonny's parkinglot screaming with excitement...This meant that they had started the calling process and I knew it would only be a day or two until I got my call. They have been going unit by unit. Taking their precious little time to call people to offer them positions. Today my friend Nikki told me that she was given the job she has been only hoping and praying for, which is in the Pediatric Intermediate Care, also being something I have been praying for as well! Throughout the day, I ran into people here and there from school and my phone was blowing up with texts about people who were getting calls left and right. I was sure to keep my phone in my pocket at all times in expectation that I would be getting my call today. Around 10pm tonight, it hit me. This isn't going to happen. I am not going to be getting a job with Shands pediatrics. Now, I don't know for sure that I won't be getting a call tomorrow, but I have this pinching feeling in my heart that says that it's all wrong. It's not where I am going to be. Well, I'll update you more on this later. When I'm a little more sure about my gut feeling and a little less bummed about it all... I do know one thing. I do love and worship a God that loves me and has a crazy awesome plan for my life that I can't wait to unravel!
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Count Down
6 more days until I dress in all white and walk down the isle to start a new life! Ha, a new life as a college graduate and a brand new nurse that is! Time to grow up. I've been living on my own for a while now, so in some sense I have become an adult. But really, I have so much more growing up to do! I am still waiting to hear from Shands about a job. I interviewed back in February and was told I'd be getting a phone call the first week of April. Well that's come and gone! Shands has had some difficulty with hiring right now while they are in transition of hiring people for the new cancer center and moving people from AGH over before they close it down. So I'm trying to be understanding and patient, but its hard. In the mean time, I DID accept a position as CAMP NURSE/EMT summer long intern at SharpTop Cove in Jasper, Ga. I am more than excited for this opportunity, it will probably be the last chance I will have to do something like this for a long time. Most of you who talk to me on a regular basis- none of this news is really news to you.
On another note.. I spent 9 hours in the ER Friday night/Saturday morning. Don't worry, I'm fine! I actually was there as support for a friend of mine. It was a huge confidence boost that the nurses and doctors all suspected the same things I did when I went to pick her up from her house before heading over to the ER. When I got to her house I did a quick assessment of her and decided that the ER was a smart choice. I felt very proud of myself for having actually learned something in the past 2 years of nursing school! After doing blood tests and CT scans, turned out to not be nearly as serious as I (or the nurses and drs) had thought it was, praise God! It ended up being 9 hours of let's play the best friend game and get to know each other really really well, with just a really big bill to follow. My sleep schedule is way out of wack now. It always has been, but even more so now. I got didn't get home from the ER until 10:30 am. I went to sleep and woke up at 4:30 pm to go hang out with a friend. Was awake until 4am and then got up at 9:30am for church. We'll see what happens tonight.
OK.. this post is long enough.. I am going to leave you with a link I found on one of my friend's pages. It is a little french girl named Capucine telling a story. She is soo cute and so creative! I have decided that when I have babies I'm only going to speak french to them so they turn out as cute as this girl. I need to learn french first. Anyone wanna teach me?
On another note.. I spent 9 hours in the ER Friday night/Saturday morning. Don't worry, I'm fine! I actually was there as support for a friend of mine. It was a huge confidence boost that the nurses and doctors all suspected the same things I did when I went to pick her up from her house before heading over to the ER. When I got to her house I did a quick assessment of her and decided that the ER was a smart choice. I felt very proud of myself for having actually learned something in the past 2 years of nursing school! After doing blood tests and CT scans, turned out to not be nearly as serious as I (or the nurses and drs) had thought it was, praise God! It ended up being 9 hours of let's play the best friend game and get to know each other really really well, with just a really big bill to follow. My sleep schedule is way out of wack now. It always has been, but even more so now. I got didn't get home from the ER until 10:30 am. I went to sleep and woke up at 4:30 pm to go hang out with a friend. Was awake until 4am and then got up at 9:30am for church. We'll see what happens tonight.
OK.. this post is long enough.. I am going to leave you with a link I found on one of my friend's pages. It is a little french girl named Capucine telling a story. She is soo cute and so creative! I have decided that when I have babies I'm only going to speak french to them so they turn out as cute as this girl. I need to learn french first. Anyone wanna teach me?
Sunday, April 12, 2009
sleep deprivation
This week wasn't as bad as last week when it comes to clinical. Things actually seemed to go pretty well. I started my first IV! Did my first female cath! And got a 7 yr old boyfriend all in one week! The 7 yr old was one of my patients! He was the cutest thing ever! He made me a present and wrapped it up in a paper towel! It was so precious!
So... I feel kind of bad about my last post.. and how I talked so horribly about the nurse I was working with. I found out this poor woman is narcoleptic and the mountain dew keeps her functioning at the level she does! Sometimes I wish I could be narcoleptic. I have the opposite problem. I often am stuck awake and don't get enough sleep.
This week was Holy week; the week before Easter. I attended an all night prayer vigil at St. Andrew's (my church) that was from 10-6am. Then there was a 6am service that I attended. You'd think someone might be churched out after being in one for that long, but after the service we went to breakfast and then I hopped right over to another service, at the church I grew up in, to hear my sister sing and attend with the family. Wow was that weird. When I say I grew up in that church, I mean I was 5 or so when we built the church, then stopped going there in my junior year of high school for many many reasons. Which would make it 5 years now that I haven't attended that church. I felt very awkward, and most people didn't even remember my name or recognize me. Both of which upset me because of HOW extremely involved I was in that church. Oh well, I love St. Andrews! I really do! I have grown to be a different person because of how much love the people have poured out on me there! I have grown to see what it's like to really be a follower of Jesus and to be more like him! Praise be to God for the work he has done in my life in the last 5 years!
OH.. and if you really want to be a good friend.. don't ask me about Shands job offers! No I haven't heard anything back yet and don't know that I will until the last week of April. They sent us out an email saying they have delayed the hiring process yet again. I'm nervous and more anxious as to what the future has to hold for me! I've been given a few opportunities for this summer and I'm uncertain of which one might be best for me. Keep me in your prayers!
Official countdown= 17 days til graduation!!
So... I feel kind of bad about my last post.. and how I talked so horribly about the nurse I was working with. I found out this poor woman is narcoleptic and the mountain dew keeps her functioning at the level she does! Sometimes I wish I could be narcoleptic. I have the opposite problem. I often am stuck awake and don't get enough sleep.
This week was Holy week; the week before Easter. I attended an all night prayer vigil at St. Andrew's (my church) that was from 10-6am. Then there was a 6am service that I attended. You'd think someone might be churched out after being in one for that long, but after the service we went to breakfast and then I hopped right over to another service, at the church I grew up in, to hear my sister sing and attend with the family. Wow was that weird. When I say I grew up in that church, I mean I was 5 or so when we built the church, then stopped going there in my junior year of high school for many many reasons. Which would make it 5 years now that I haven't attended that church. I felt very awkward, and most people didn't even remember my name or recognize me. Both of which upset me because of HOW extremely involved I was in that church. Oh well, I love St. Andrews! I really do! I have grown to be a different person because of how much love the people have poured out on me there! I have grown to see what it's like to really be a follower of Jesus and to be more like him! Praise be to God for the work he has done in my life in the last 5 years!
OH.. and if you really want to be a good friend.. don't ask me about Shands job offers! No I haven't heard anything back yet and don't know that I will until the last week of April. They sent us out an email saying they have delayed the hiring process yet again. I'm nervous and more anxious as to what the future has to hold for me! I've been given a few opportunities for this summer and I'm uncertain of which one might be best for me. Keep me in your prayers!
Official countdown= 17 days til graduation!!
Sunday, April 5, 2009
Caffiene Junkie
Wow! I can't believe how close I am til graduation! May 1st is just around the corner! ONE more month! I'm doing my practicum/transition right now, which means that I am strictly working in the hospital. <--this was from a post I began to write march 31st, shows you how busy I am.. so here is the continuation.
I have been soo busy that I haven't had time to sit and read blogs or write my own in a while. Blogging has actually been the last on my list of things to do. I haven't had time to see friends, do laundry or the most important of all, SLEEP! The nurse I am working with at the hospital is one of the oldest ones on the floor. She takes a little more time than most to get the job done. So I have worked (for free) 48 hours this week for school. I managed to work 4 hours and get paid for it after I had already done a 12 hour shift Saturday which made my total hours at the hospital up to 52!! Let me just tell you how anxious yet ready I am to start working on my own. I'm kind of having a rough time with the nurse I am working with. This lady is nuts- she drinks 4 mountain dews before 12pm (when we take a lunch). Let me give you some info about mountaindew. In one 20 oz bottle of mountaindew there is 90 mg of of caffiene! 90 x 4= 360mg of caffiene!!! DANG yo! So you'd think someone who has consumed that much caffiene would be having heart palpitations maybe even be extremely excitable... well, this is not the case. Of the two times I have taken my lunch break with my nurse, she has fallen asleep WHILE chewing her food. Next time it happens I might take a picture with my phone. Anyhow.. any of you who read my blog to keep up with me and want to lift me up in prayers..I'd greatly appreciate if you lift me up right now. Though I LOVE working in pediatrics, the nurse I am working with has made it very difficult to love what I'm doing. I am also waiting to hear back from the hospital as to whether or not I will be offered a job this week! I'll keep you posted!
I have been soo busy that I haven't had time to sit and read blogs or write my own in a while. Blogging has actually been the last on my list of things to do. I haven't had time to see friends, do laundry or the most important of all, SLEEP! The nurse I am working with at the hospital is one of the oldest ones on the floor. She takes a little more time than most to get the job done. So I have worked (for free) 48 hours this week for school. I managed to work 4 hours and get paid for it after I had already done a 12 hour shift Saturday which made my total hours at the hospital up to 52!! Let me just tell you how anxious yet ready I am to start working on my own. I'm kind of having a rough time with the nurse I am working with. This lady is nuts- she drinks 4 mountain dews before 12pm (when we take a lunch). Let me give you some info about mountaindew. In one 20 oz bottle of mountaindew there is 90 mg of of caffiene! 90 x 4= 360mg of caffiene!!! DANG yo! So you'd think someone who has consumed that much caffiene would be having heart palpitations maybe even be extremely excitable... well, this is not the case. Of the two times I have taken my lunch break with my nurse, she has fallen asleep WHILE chewing her food. Next time it happens I might take a picture with my phone. Anyhow.. any of you who read my blog to keep up with me and want to lift me up in prayers..I'd greatly appreciate if you lift me up right now. Though I LOVE working in pediatrics, the nurse I am working with has made it very difficult to love what I'm doing. I am also waiting to hear back from the hospital as to whether or not I will be offered a job this week! I'll keep you posted!
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