Fears and Jeers

So I am "moving" to Temple this Friday and I have mixed emotions. I love my apartment here in Houston very much, its cozy and my stuff is here! BUT some of this shit in here is so raggedy! How embarrassing is it when the A/C starts squealing like a dying squirrel when company is over?! ugh, it will def be nice to get away for a week or two! LOL! Plus judging from the pictures this new place won't be too shabby!

Def an upgrade from my current place, but granite counter tops and stainless steel appliances do not make a place! Safety, silence and savings make a place to me!!!

Well as far as working at a strange place goes, I AM SO NERVOUS! All I know is S. L!!! I only know their policies, equipment and culture. Everyone keeps telling me you develop thick skin while traveling, I just have to stay prayed up when I encounter the 1st instance of being clowned or "chewed out". LMAO! But I can handle anything for 13 weeks...as long as my patients are ok, then I'm ok. They are truly the reason why I am a nurse. Management, hospitals and staff can be such a let down, but the patients are my foundation and motivation! I'm a little nervous about being dumped on with the poopers and confused, but I have had it plenty...the difference will be it will be from strangers with no regard to who I am as a person. SAFETY SAFETY SAFETY! I don't want to walk in there with safe harbor forms...but I am so tempted lmao! (Non-nursing personnel, GOOGLE IT: Nursing, Texas, Safe Harbor)

Working at S.L was one of the joys of my life, excellent staff management ...well they were there hehehehe. Mostly the staff! It came to the point where small things were starting to irritate and get me worked up...if anyone knows me when it comes to that, its time for me to move around! You can ask any RA in Jester West 2007-2008 (spring) LMAO! I just don't like it when the paperwork becomes precedent over the actual patient care...but I am going stop right there! IF IT AINT CHARTED THEN IT AINT DONE! YOU FORGOT TO CHECK THE N/A BOX ETC ETC...And im done! Its getting closer folks!!!

B. S. RN

The Details: My 1st Assignment!

Well this is the scoop:

I am signed up with @#$$! @$#%$# travel agency (I am not going to to promote them until I setup my monetize account $$) in late February. The recruiter was referred to me by a co-worker who is still traveling today (email me for details)...basically I let them know what I wanted to do and where I wanted to go. Initially, I wanted to go balls to the wall and pick any compact state the furthest away from Texas, however per recommendation I am going to start out in Texas. With that said, I am taking my 1st assignment in Temple Texas! (Google map it) I will me working for the major trauma center out there working in their medical ICU with strong chances of being floated to their heart ICU, surgical trauma and progressive care unit. So your probably wondering, your a cardiac nurse...why not go to the cardiac icu? I am MEDICAL CARDIAC nurse and they were looking for a nurse to recover fresh hearts...so I wasn't quite comfy doing that...lol.

My apartment in Houston will be maintained as well as my job in Houston but with a decreased commitment (4 shifts per every 4 week period).They are paying for my apartment in temple, utilities included, and subsidizing my income so I can keep my apartment in H-town. Pay wise I will be making a little more traveling, working 72 than my salary as full time staff at S.L. Its a really nice deal! All money I make from working in Houston will be strictly for savings!

The 1st day of my hospital orientation is April 5th, and I move into the apartment this Friday! So the apartment is fully furnished with stainless steel appliances (I think).

More details to come! If you have ?s email me!!!

Intro!

Greetings and Salutations!

This journey in nursing started for me in 2003! It started as any typical story, at 1st I wanted to be a doctor to "help people" LOL! In high school I took this healthcare oriented class and Ms. G discussed nursing as a career to the class. Of course I ignored it because I didn't truly understand the nursing profession and damnit, I wanted to be a doctor! Well as I got closer to graduation I needed extra volunteer hours to make myself more "well rounded" on the college application, because I missed the top 10% by one dang chair! So I found myself in a brown smock (it looked like I worked at Walmart) in the emergency room @ LBJ! The nurses there were def one of a kind! I then asked the question "so where are the doctors?", they replied with sass "in the back". "So who runs this ER?", "Honey, your looking at us". Needless to say, I then learned one of the major benefits of nursing, we keep the operation going! I was UT Austin bound and here I am today!

I currently work in the med center in Houston in Cardiac ICU (medical) we do IABP, vents, CVVHD, hypothermia, peripherial thrombosis, PA catheters along with other typical ICU type of diagnosis. I have been working there since June of 2008 and I have decreased my commitment there to pursue travel nursing!

Details are coming.....