Hey Everyone!!
I'm trying this blog thing so as to keep in touch with you guys and update you!! I'm not sure about this as I lost a whole letter already and had to start this post over.
I am on the last two nights of my orientation then I am turned loose. I had a total of five nights and one week of day meeting orientation. This is okay but the computer is different in the charting aspect. They use, what we call i-view for all their charting and ad hoc for next to nothing. I don't know if this is better, necessarily, just different. It is taking me a long time to chart. It is like I went back to the beginning of cerner. Computer crashes and all, freezing up and loosing info!! There is many more places to go to complete the charting. They use the monitors that the Bloge had. I don't remember a thing about them. Also, no bubble cpap, and only the oscillator is the same vent, no jets. Haven't really seen their conventional vents as I am in feeder grower land.
It is a nice unit with private rooms, four to a pod, and I think five to six pods to a station. It is very quiet, but also very isolated. It is as if you are alone on an island. Everything is in a circle and I am still lost on where anything is. All the meds are in a med room in the pyxsis. They use PTN's for delivery and admissions. Also for transports, no regular nurses. NNP's rarely do any of that. Also, the doctors do all of the lines, and nurses dress them and change the dressings. I'm not sure of the NNP's role. They seem to just round like the docs'.
I miss all of you guys. Work is not the same here....I am a newbie. I miss having fun, teamwork, and feeling part of a group. The good thing is that I can have my very large mug of coffee with me constantly. Will I now be able to stay awake past the middle of the night charting dilemma? I haven't decided if it is very friendly. I was told that I intimidate people. Imagine that...I haven't ever been told that and I have never pictured myself in that role. It is lonely here.....I have wanted to quit and leave very many times. One time almost packed. I really don't know if I like it here. The kids like it just fine. I am really homesick. I don't know if I have ever experienced that ever in my whole entire life. Under different circumstances, I might feel differently. I haven't decided. I just want all the bad luck and unhappiness to just go away and everything to be a bed of roses...Life would be fabulous if that was the case. Well, enough of this morbidness. I have to give it time. Just wished that I hadn't felt that I needed to leave GR. Wish I could make solid decisions.
Well, I really miss everyone. You will never know how much your support in the last few years have meant to me. I hope one day I can return the support. It has opened my eyes to what is really important in life. Sharon has my address which she said she will post in the unit. Also, I am on facebook. I look forward to hearing from you guys, and hope to keep this stupid blog I am trying to use updated. I'll talk to you guys later!! Remember to appreciate where you are at because the grass is not greener on the other side, jut different!!
Mary
