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Dumb, RN

12/04/08

Dumb, RN

Permalink 05:25:46 pm by cassie, Categories: Announcements [A]

I don't know why I always feel the need to cry during the first month of starting a new job, but that's how I feel now. Two twelves down this week, one to go.

Despite the commute time and the office politics and overwhelming patient census and all the terrible, horrible, no-good things I whine about in regards to my "old" job on the bypass unit, somehow my 8-hour shift there on Sunday is looking, to me, like a piece of strawberry rhubarb pie. That is - delicious, relaxing, best enjoyed in the company of good friends (or, in this case, good coworkers). I can't wait to be back at my old unit where I know where everything is and how to work all the equipment and where everyone knows that I work hard and am not as big of a scatterbrain as I am in other areas of my life. I rarely feel dumb there.

Right now, at this new place I'm working, where the patients are no sicker or have no weirder problems than any of my patients from my old job, I nevertheless have to ask about EVERYTHING. I'm back on orientation with someone else's routine to follow, a new system to learn, a new way of doing things, new doctors to remember.

Bad day. Dreading tomorrow. Hoping to get some sleep tonight. I am a certifiable Big Baby.

4 comments

Comment from: Kate [Visitor] Email
KatePraying for you. You're not a certifiable Big Baby. Not even close. You know what you're doing and you do it well. It'll just take time to learn the ropes.

Wish you were around the corner and we could hang out and be Big Babies together.
12/05/08 @ 08:03
Comment from: Sar [Visitor] Email
SarI would be a bigger wuss, that's for sure. Not knowing the docs seems the worst of it. Out there, they might come by and see a patient and you'd never know they came. I would prob see a new doc steal a chart in my fishbowl of a workplace but a floor is harder. They're people, those patients fo yours. Not knowing all that stuff is like trying to take care of a patient without knowing their vitals or something. Very stressful. It'll be short, Cass. It has to be. Sides, you know God put you here. He won't leave you there alone.

I did something silly just now - promised to work tonight instead of tomorrow. I need to go find some sleep somewhere. I'll be praying for the both of you tonight. :)
12/05/08 @ 10:46
Comment from: cassie [Member]
cassieThanks, ladies. :) I love you both so much. Today was better - I was holding it together until I watched someone die and then it got worse when the person I was giving report to accusingly said, "Are you a new grad?" all exasperated when I didn't know what a piece of paperwork was. I was like, please, lady, no, I'm just new and stupid to all of this. Give me a break. But that's another post for another time, or maybe now.
12/05/08 @ 18:30
Comment from: Heidi [Visitor] Email
Heidiughh i hate starting a new place. even a new floor or unit makes me anxious the night before.
i remember when i started where i am now, everytime i couldnt find the correct supply closet. having to go around finding a different person to ask each time so they didnt think i was retarded...
12/09/08 @ 14:40
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