Just The Beginning

First and foremost if anyone has a better title for this blog I am very open for suggestions.

I have been a Nursing Assistant for 5 yrs. All but the past 7.5 mths were spent at a Pediatricians Office. I was allowed to do everything. I had my gut and knew if a kid needed to come in, if someone needed to be seen before the 8 other patients infront of them, and I was confident in that position. If I had stayed there the title of RN wouldn't have made much of a difference other than pay. But that's not what I went to school for. So the past 7.5 mths I have been on a Peds Bone Marrow Transplant floor as the Nursing Assistant. My duties have included stocking rooms, taking vitals on the 16 patients on the floor every 4 hours, keeping up with how much they have peed and pooed, and if I am lucky doing a sterile dressing change. I love the floor, I love the staff, I love the families and kids but have missed using my brain.

Starting Monday I will be an RN on the floor. Scary. I have no confidence, no gut feeling about these kids. I am so excited and so freaked. Nursing school doesn't go to indepth about chemo, blood product tranfussions and definately not about transplants so I will have a learning curve when I start. But I am so ready to get my brain working again!

This blog hopefully will end up being something I can look back on in a year or two and laugh at how new everything was and how much I have grown. We'll see!